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Angry Birds Friends coming to Android and iOS, brings the franchise full circle

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas You may not have realized it if you were heads-down with your smartphone, but one of the most popular Angry Birds games is on Facebook: its social network adaptation,Angry Birds Friends, has racked up about 15 million active users. It’s only appropriate, then, that Rovio complete the cycle with new plans to bring Angry Birds Friends to mobile. While details are slim, the company vows that the upcoming Android and iOS ports will maintain Facebook integration…

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BIOSHOCK INFINITE REVIEW: ABOVE AND BELOW

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As reported on Polygon. By Arthur Gies Even if you’ve tried to maintain a total media blackout on BioShock Infinite, it would have been difficult to remain ignorant of the extended, torturous development cycle it’s been through, or the number of major creative personnel who have come and gone during that time. You’d almost think it was hard to follow up the original game, which has been lauded and held up as one of the few conscious,…

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EA announces ‘Battlefield 4’ with a 17-minute gameplay trailer

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As reported on The Verge. By Jacob Kastrenakes The next entry in Electronic Arts’ visually stunning Battlefield series is set to be released this fall for PC, Xbox 360, and PS3. EA DICE announced Battlefield 4alongside a 17-minute trailer that opens on a couple of soldiers listening to Bonnie Tyler’s power ballad “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” and proceeds to showcase the cinematic setpiece moments that titles like Battlefield 3 and the Modern Warfare series have come to be known for. The first person…

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What Games Are: Where Did Wii U Go Wrong?

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As reported on TechCrunch. by TADHG KELLY Two years ago I was very excited by the possibilities of the Wii U. I instantly fell in love with the idea of the tablet/joypad game controller and saw all sorts of possible uses. It seemed like it might well be the console that could do it all, from first-person shooters to real-time strategy, and also lots of funky stuff like drawing games, things to do with cameras and…

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The Breathtaking Final Fantasy Art of Yoshitaka Amano

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As reported on Wired. BY CHRIS KOHLER The worldwide success of the Final Fantasy series of role-playing games is due in great part to the contributions of graphic artist Yoshitaka Amano. Born in 1952, Amano began his career as an animator for seminal Japanese animation series like Speed Racer and Gatchaman, before turning freelance in the 1980s and concentrating on illustrations. His artistic signature, quite different from the big-eyed, primary-hued anime style that had come to define postwar Japanese aesthetic, lent a…

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Controllers for your smartphone: testing the best gamepads for Android and iOS

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As reported on The Verge. By Evan Rodgers Handheld gaming has come a long way since the days of the Game Boy and Game Gear. Many of us moved from plastic cartridges and link cables to smartphones with console-level graphics and five-point multi-touch. But even with games like Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja that make excellent use of the ever-expanding real estate of today’s HD smartphones, it’s hard not to feel like we’ve taken a step backward as we strain…

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Halo Creator Unveils Its Next Masterpiece, a Persistent Online World

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As reported on Wired. BY BRAD GALLAWAY “Citadel”: Concept art from Bungie’s Destiny. “Vex”: Concept art from Bungie’s Destiny. “Dark Patrol”: Concept art from Bungie’s Destiny. “Travelers’ Rest”: Concept art from Bungie’s Destiny. “Cassini Derelict”: Concept art from Bungie’s Destiny. “Exclusion Zone”: Concept art from Bungie’s Destiny. “Fallen”: Concept art from Bungie’s Destiny. “Fireteam”: Concept art from Bungie’s Destiny. “Garden”: Concept art from Bungie’s Destiny. “Guardians”: Concept art from Bungie’s Destiny. “Hellmouth”: Concept art from Bungie’s Destiny. “Ocean of Storms”: Concept art from Bungie’s Destiny. “Pike”: Concept…

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Microsoft’s new Xbox will include improved Siri-like speech recognition

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As reported on The Verge. By Tom Warren DON’T MISS ANY STORIES FOLLOW THE VERGE 8 inShare Microsoft will greatly improve its speech recognition technology inside the next Xbox,The Verge has learned. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s Xbox plans have revealed that Durango, the codename for the next Xbox, will support wake on voice, natural language controls, and speech-to-text. The improved capabilities mean that Xbox users will be able to walk into a room and simply say “Xbox on”…

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ANTICHAMBER REVIEW: MOBIUS TRIP

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As reported on Polygon. By Griffin McElroy Antichamber requires a great deal of intellect, patience and perception to conquer, all of which could be safely considered “serious” traits in the context of game design. It is a game that is serious and academic in the grand tradition of all good, atmospheric puzzle games — but whether developer Alexander Bruce meant to or not, Antichamber is also a very, very playful game. People love getting tricked, so long…

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New 3DMark arrives for Windows, gaming PCs brace for punishment (video)

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas There’s nothing quite so crushing to the self-esteem of a gamer as a new 3DMarkbuild: even a year-old flagship PC can feel like a clunker as it struggles to get a decent frame rate in Futuremark’s visually intensive tests. It’s time to get masochistic once again, as the Windows version of the 2013 3DMark release is at last available. The software’s showcase benchmark is Fire Strike, for brag-worthy rigs with high-endDirectX 11 graphics;…

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