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Microsoft gives away Tomb Raider to Xbox Live Gold subscribers to promote the sequel

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
August 25, 2015
2 min

Microsoft announced its plans for Games with Gold next month, and it’s clear the company is using this feature as a way to promote...

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Flying Mollusk’s Nevermind horror game measures how scared you get

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 25, 2015
2 min

Erin Reynolds has created her horror game Nevermind so that she can figure out just how scared you get while playing it — and...

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Sensel unveils its Morph pressure-sensitive pad for touch devices

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 25, 2015
2 min

Sensel is unveiling a new kind of touch user interface, the Sensel Morph, that lets you do things like paint with a brush on a PC....

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5 tips for new Mega Man players buying the Legacy Collection

Posted byby Mike Minotti
August 25, 2015
3 min

Today’s release of the Mega Man Legacy Collection (check out our review here and how we rank all six games in the compilation) gives fans of the classic series an excuse to replay some of their favorite sidescrollers.

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In Sony’s Until Dawn interactive horror game, the player becomes part of the narrative

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 25, 2015
14 min

GamesBeat: Were you aware that attempts to do interactive movies or make games more movie-like have this long history of really not working out?...

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Ranking Mega Man 1 through 6

Posted byby Mike Minotti
August 25, 2015
4 min

The Mega Man Legacy Collection (check out our review here) gave me an excuse to play through the NES classics Mega Man 1 through 6 again. With all of them fresh in my mind, I figured it would be a good idea to rank them.

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Gambling company offers 99-to-1 odds on Hearthstone joining Winter Olympics 2030

Posted byby GamesBeat
August 25, 2015
1 min

An online gambling company is offering odds of 99-to-1 on the card-battler Hearthstone becoming a Winter Olympic sport. The Malta-based Betway is getting into esports...

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Mega Man Legacy Collection contains great games in an OK package

Posted byby Mike Minotti
August 25, 2015
5 min

As a child of the ’80s, I grew up with the side-scrolling series. I loved Mega Man before I loved any other game character. The Blue Bomber meant more to me than Mario or Link. So, any collection of Mega Man games has my attention.