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Xbox One Reveal: New Unveil Videos

Here are some new unveil videos for the Xbox One. More information about the Xbox One gaming experience is revealed. The first video is all about: Introducing Xbox One, the [...]

The Xbox One Revealed: Specs, Controller And Release Date Inside

The next-gen Xbox console is now a reality with the Xbox One. The specifications have finally been released and we now have some clarity of how all the specifications will [...]

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This Week In Indie: Trailer Update On TBT: The Black Tower, And Sanctum 2 Is Out!

Welcome to another edition of This Week In Indie, there’s not much in the way of news this week largely due to a shortage of actual newsworthy topics. However, this [...]

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Experience Points: Violent Games Help Us

After reading up on US Vice President Joe Biden’s recent remarks, regarding statements he made that violent games should have some form of sin tax, I was a tad flabbergasted. [...]

Interview: 2K Marin On The Bureau: XCOM Declassified

Recently, we, here at eGamer, managed to sit down with Nico Bihary and Alyssa Finley from 2K Marin, and interviewed them about the studio’s upcoming game The Bureau: XCOM Declassified. [...]

This Week In Indie: Play DayZ With Dinosaurs In Stomping Land, And Monkeys With Guns

This week, two interesting, and very different, games were announced to be in development mainly GUN_MONKEYS and The Stomping Land. In one you can play a time-travelling monkey deathmatch experience, [...]

This Week Indie: Get That Metroidvania Fix With Chasm, And Indie Jam 2 Bundle

In this edition of This Week In Indie, we take a look a the new Metroidvania (a gameplay combination of Metroid and Castlevania) inspired ARPG, with awesome hack-and-slash elements, called [...]

Experience Points: Damn Straight, Games Should Work At Launch

Somewhere along the way, the videogames industry has been bitten, gnawed and zombified into a complete balls-up travesty where gamers are left in a state of horror. Recently, Star Trek, [...]

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This Week In Indie: Return To PS1 Days With TBT: The Black Tower, And Lost Spirits Of Kael

This week has flown by fast and some great news has surfaced. A game called TBT: The Black Tower, an indie RPG, returns to the roots of PS1 JRPGs in [...]

This Week In Indie: Crime Pays In Monaco And Take Care In Shelter

The year is 2013, indie games are reaching new heights of unseen popularity. One weekly article is here to show you the way. Welcome to This Week In Indie, where [...]

Experience Points: Cyberpunk Is Alive And Well in Games

For awhile, I was missing straight and honest Cyberpunk from my gaming diet. The last game that I can recall playing the Cyberpunk card, with explicit purpose, was Deus Ex: [...]

Getting Into Anime: Without Watching 500 Episodes

I’ve met many anime fans, and otaku (hardcore anime and manga fans), who found their love of anime through long running Shonen (anime shows targeted at young male teens and [...]

This Week In Indie: Humble Weekly Sale: Blendo Games And The Catnip Bundle

In this edition of This Week In Indie, we decided to take a look at the one weekly sale promotion from Humble Bundle with Blendo Games, and the Catnip Bundle [...]

Remember Me Brings Demographic Diversity To The Action Genre

Remember Me is the first big release from Dontnod Entertainment and is an Action Adventure title with elements of stealth and platforming. The game boasts a unique fighting and combat [...]

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This Week In Indie: Ouya Launched And Dust: An Elysian Tail Comes To PC

This week has been amazing for the indie scene with the release of the Android-powered console called the Ouya. On top of this, there is also glorious news that Dust: [...]

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Experience Points: My Gaming Childhood Was Pirated

South Africa is a pretty weird place. I was born at the end of 1980s and grew up with videogames from a very young age. My first introduction to the [...]

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This Week In Indie: Pulse And Aztez

A week has passed us by at hyper speed, and your weekly dose of indie news is here. In this edition of This Week In Indie, we take a look [...]

Review: BioShock Infinite

BioShock Infinite is a unique game. Not for the reasons you may think and presume. But for the simplicity in which it takes the medium of the videogame far beyond [...]

This Week In Indie: Schein, King Voxel, Steam Indie Spring Summer Sale

Here we are at the end of another week, and there has been much in the way of indie news. This week we have the Steam Indie Spring Summer Sale, [...]

Indie Review: Bit.Trip Presents Runner 2

In Runner 2, you once again resume the adventures of interstellar hero Commander Video, who appears as black visored figure with Sonic-like running shoes. He is joined by a host [...]

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Experience Points: Next-Gen Console Rumours Are Stupid

Of late, gamers are bombarded with rumour after rumour concerning the PS4, and now the Xbox 720 (code named Durango). There are countless comment threads on articles concerning the two [...]

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This Week In Indie: DieCrypter, Low Light Combat And Retro/Grade

This week has been one with a greater number of game releases on the horizion. There is a large amount of promising indie news revolving around games than the previous [...]

This Week In Indie: Fire And Ice Bundle And Humble Bundle With Android 5

This week has been an uneventful one in terms of indie game news. Although, what we have this week is two big bundles for you to purchase if you’re in [...]

Defining Indie: The Guidelines

Foreword: This blog by Wolfire Games was very helpful in providing the information necessary for fleshing out this article. A thanks must also be given to Krillbite Studio and Compulsion [...]

Experience Points: The Gearbox Effect: Over-promising Games

Note: Thanks must be given to both Caveshen and Azhar whose articles helped me flesh out this column significantly. I have linked their articles where applicable. During 2012, Mass Effect [...]

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This Week In Indie: Hybris, Edmund McMillen’s Mew-Genics And The Button Affair

This week we cover a whole host of indie games from Hybris, to Edmund McMillen’s new game called Mew-Genics, to The Button Fair. Indie games have never been as diverse, [...]

Interview: Irrational Games On BioShock Infinite

BioShock Infinite aims to redefine how we think and feel about the first-person shooter genre, much like the original BioShock did. Set in 1912, and based in the sky high [...]

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This Week In Indie: The Witness, Haxel And Rad Raygun

Here we are with another edition of This Week In Indie. This week the biggest indie news event happened at Sony’s reveal for the PS4, where Jonathan Blow revealed that [...]

PS4 Reveal: The Witness Is Coming To PS4

Braid developer Jonathan Blow presented his lastest artistic game The Witness at Sony’s show. The game is a puzzle adventure set on an island with a bright and colourful palette, [...]

PS4 Reveal: Destiny Will Be On The PS4

Destiny is being toted by Bungie as the first “Shared World Shooter”. The game will be available on both PS3 and the PS4, and marks a departure from Bungie’s origins [...]

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