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Collector’s Edition of Portal 2: Songs to Test By Announced

Do you feel guilty for downloading the digital soundtrack of Portal 2, despite it being available online legally from Valve? Do you wish to reward the fine musical composers at Valve for creating such a wonderful soundtrack filled with orchestral, classic, and electronic music with your cold hard cash? Well, you’ll will have your chance on October 30th, because that’s the release date of the four-disc collector’s edition of Portal 2: Songs to Test By. Here’s what the collector’s edition of Portal 2: Songs to Test By will include:

* The Portal 2 soundtrack available in physical form
*The soundtrack to the original Portal game
* The mini-comic, “Turret Lullaby”, which reveals the origin of the singing turrets

Valve has made “Turret Lullaby” available to read online, but the collector’s edition will make the music of the original Portal game available in its entirety for the first time. Before that, the only music from Portal that was available to the public was Jonathan Coulton’s “Still Alive” and its remix on the Orange Box soundtrack. Not included in this musical collection is The National’s “Exile Vilify”, which made its debut in Portal 2, but the song is available for purchase. I’m not sure if the collector’s edition of Portal 2: Songs to Test By is as enticing as it could be, considering most of its content is available online for free, but this physical release will probably be enough to woo Portal fanatics and video game music lovers into purchasing. Amazon is taking pre-orders for Portal 2: Songs to Test By.

[Scott_Pilgrim]

7 Νοέμβρη είναι παγκόσμια ημέρα του Shepard και του crew του! Θα βγει για PS360&PC Mass Effect Complete saga σε ένα πακέτο και το πρώτο ΜΕ στο PSN.

[Shepard]

7 Νοέμβρη είναι παγκόσμια ημέρα του Shepard και του crew του! Θα βγει για PS360&PC Mass Effect Complete saga σε ένα πακέτο και το πρώτο ΜΕ στο PSN.

Σας περιμένω ΟΛΟΥΣ!

Trailer για το Total War: Rome 2
Η Creative Assembly έδωσε στη δημοσιότητα ένα νέο trailer για το Total War: Rome 2, μέσα από το οποίο έχουμε την ευκαιρία να δούμε για πρώτη φορά in-game footage. Το δεύτερο παιχνίδι της σειράς θα κυκλοφορήσει μέσα στο 2013 και υπόσχεται αξέχαστες επικές μάχες. Απολαύστε το μέσα από τον παρακάτω player:



FIFA 13 Glitches

[G3n3raL86]

Μέρα του Shepard? Καλά.... Πότε θα κάνουν μέρα για τους Elcor?

[Shepard]

Μέρα του Shepard? Καλά.... Πότε θα κάνουν μέρα για τους Elcor?

[Shepard]

Blizzard’s Project Titan team is now over 100 strong
Blizzard’s mysterious new MMO, codenamed Titan, now boasts a sizeable development team.

Speaking in an interview with Curse, as reported by PC Gamer, Blizzard vice president of game design Rob Pardo said the project is “definitely in the middle of development at this point”.

“The team is over 100 people now,” he said, adding that new game teams may start with as few as three people and gather staffers as they develop.

Watch the full interview below.

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Remember Me has 50,000 combos

Last week, we got a little sneak peek of the combat details for Capcom’s upcoming title Remember Me. This weekend, at the Eurogamer Expo, game developer Dontnod Entertainment revealed that the previously-mentioned Combat Lab has a total of 50,000 combos.

Dontnod’s creative director, Jean-Maxime Moris, showed off the Remember Me‘s combat system at a developer session during the Eurogamer Expo. The main character, Nilin, as a melee fighter who has an extensive combat customization feature, referred to as the Combo Lab. As Nilin progresses through the game, fighting moves (Pressens) are unlocked (or, in the case of the game’s story, remembered). At any time during gameplay, you can have up to four active combos, but those must be customized to adapt to various gameplay situations.

During the developer session, Moris displayed how the Combo Lab worked and how Pressens are dropped from the right-hand of the screen into a combo onto the left-hand side of the screen. Obviously, the more Pressens you have in a combo, the bigger the combo’s effect.

If you find the Combo Lab a bit overwhelming, you will have the opportunity to auto-fill the combos. But Moris stated that if you invest time in figuring the system tout, the rewards will be greater and will result in more achievements, more trophies and more Pressens.

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Eurogamer Expo 2012: Abe's Oddysee HD
Lorne Lanning from Oddworld Inhabitants talks Abe's Oddysee HD at the Eurogamer Expo 2012 Developer Sessions.


Eurogamer Expo 2012: Valve Software's Chet Faliszek


Eurogamer Expo 2012: Valve Software's Chet Faliszek (Second showing)


Unreal Engine 4: ‘we don’t feel beaten by other engines’ – Epic
Unreal Engine 4 developer Epic Games has told VG247 why it doesn’t feel threatened by other engines such as CryEngine 3 and Luminous. In fact, the studio feels that other engine creators go too far out of their way to be unique, making it harder for them to compete with Unreal.



As part of our Gears of War: Judgment interview, Chris Wynn, senior producer at Epic Games talked us through the studio’s approach to its competitors.

“I don’t think we ever feel beaten by them,” Wynn explained, “but we definitely look at other engines to see what they’re doing. This is going to sound a little cocky, but sometimes I think that the other engines are trying to go in different directions just to try and compete with Unreal.”

“It’s like they’re trying to find something unique and new. I’d say that the one I look at the most and makes me go ‘wow’ is Unity, because of what they’ve been able to do. They’ve really expanded their tools to be more versatile, and that is really interesting.”

“I remember looking at the Crytek tools and thinking, ‘yeah, that is as slick as hell, those are sweet tools’. But we never sit down and say, ‘wow those guys are beating us, let’s change direction.’ We’ve set our direction, we’re going to hit it and I think we’re going to keep on competing.”

[xGodKilleRx]

Μάλλον θα γίνει "σφαγή" στην επόμενη γενιά,η Luminous είναι της Square Enix;Α!Γιατί όμως δεν είπε τίποτα για την Fox Engine του Kojima που φαίνεται πολύ δυνατή...;

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Karateka Gets First Screens, Release Date



The official Xbox website jumped the gun and released the first-ever screenshots for Karateka, the upcoming HD remake of the 80s beat 'em up.

The game is coming to Xbox Live Arcade on November 14. PlayStation 3 and Wii U versions are planned, but the dates for those have not been announced. Development is being handled by Liquid Entertainment and led by the game's original creator, Jordan Mechner.

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Star Wars First Assault Outed



The box art for Star Wars First Assault for Xbox Live Arcade appeared on the Internet today courtesy of NeoGAF. The game has not been officially announced by LucasArts. The image (pictured below) is being hosted on Xbox.com.

A trademark for the game first surfaced back in August. When asked for comment on the image, a LucasArts representative said, “It is an exciting time at our company right now, however we don't have any announcements at this time.”

There's no word yet if Star Wars First Assault is coming to other platforms besides Xbox Live Arcade.