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Trailers from GamersHell 4 February 2012

4 Feb 2012 at 8:51am
Today's round up of trailers

Confrontation Screens 4 February 2012

4 Feb 2012 at 7:57am
Four new screens added in our gallery

Combat Arms v2.1201.05 US Client

4 Feb 2012 at 7:53am
Team up & beat'em

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OXCGN's Diablo III Preview: A Blizzard is Coming, and Hell Follows...

OXCGN: "After having a sudden burst of StarCraft 2 fever this past week (nineteen hours so far), I received a magical invitation from the gaming gods: Diablo III beckoned, and I answered the call. What I found was a gem that managed to impress me, a feat no Blizzard title has managed to accomplish up to this point."

Chen Rong: Dead After Playing League Of Legends (New Image)

Pinoytutorial: New image unearthed for Chen Rong, the player who died after playing League of Legends in Taiwan. More details on this report.

Amazon Video Game Download Deals of the Week.

Amazon have released their video game download deals of the week.

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Retrospective: Grim Fandango

5 Feb 2012 at 3:00am

It's only fitting that Grim Fandango takes place in the Land of the Dead, because in hindsight it represents something of a eulogy for the declining adventure genre. LucasArts' penultimate adventure game (its swansong was the anticlimactic Escape From Monkey Island) may well be its best. It helped cement director Tim Schafer as something of a superstar, prone to appear on late-night talk shows and host awards ceremonies despite Grim Fandango and his biggest games (Psychonauts, Brutal Legend) being commercial failures. Before we were all swayed by open worlds, 3D combat, and an influx of shooters, Grim Fandango proved that there's still some life left in those dusty bones.

The story of Manny Calavera - a grim reaper brilliantly reimagined as a travel agent - uncovering a web of corruption in the Land of the Dead is part Mexican folklore and part film noir. Given how well Grim Fandango blends the latter with a traditional adventure game template makes it a wonder why this hasn't been done more, since both genres are predicated on crafty problem-solving, deception and wry humour.

Recently we've had Phoenix Wright and L.A. Noire attempt to rectify this, but their protagonists were straight shooters, limiting their deductions to snooping around crime scenes and calling bluffs. Manny, however, frequently resorts to sabotage, blackmail, flirtation, manipulation and fraud to get what he wants. It's not that Manny's a bad guy - rather that he's a good guy in a bad world forced to stoop to everyone else's level to make any progress.

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Skyrim PC Creation Kit release date announced

3 Feb 2012 at 4:53pm

The PC Creation Kit for The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim arrives on Steam next Tuesday, developer Bethesda has announced.

A Tweet from marketing man Pete Hines earlier today read:

"For our Skyrim PC fans, the Creation Kit is on track for release on Tuesday. And, we also have a special surprise with it. #whatcoulditbe!?"

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Redundancies confirmed at EA Canada

3 Feb 2012 at 2:48pm

EA has confirmed that a number of staff at the Canadian studio responsible for Need For Speed: The Run and FIFA 12, among other titles, have been made redundant.

The publisher wouldn't put an exact figure on how many employees are affected.

The cuts are a result of restructuring at the Vancouver office which will see its studio in nearby Burnaby - which NFS: The Run team EA Black Box is part of - shift focus to digital formats.

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