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Show of the Week: Mirror's Edge Catalyst and 5 Least Reliable Delivery Services in Games
Mirror's Edge fans who have been waiting over seven years for a follow-up to the original game can have a go on prequel-slash-reboot Mirror's Edge Catalyst a week ea...
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7 Game Endings That Made Us Go Wait, What
Beware spoilers for the ending of Doom (the original Doom), Indigo Prophecy (AKA Fahrenheit), The Matrix: Path of Neo, The Stanley Parable and Monkey Island 2: LeChu...
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Star Wars Battlefront Gameplay - Hoth Multiplayer Gameplay, Darth Vader vs Luke Skywalker at E3 2015
DICE has made good on all its promises about slavish attention to detail in Star Wars Battlefront. The studio has clearly studied every frame of the original battle...
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8 'Useful' Items That Were No Help Whatsoever
What could be more useful on a poorly lit mission than a flashlight, for instance. Except a flashlight is only as useful as its battery life, and all too often in ga...
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6 Cheapest Tricks Bosses Should be Ashamed Of
You may think you’re pretty well equipped by the time you get to a boss, with your high level weapons, cool special moves, and legendary gear, but what you probably...
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7 Times Creators Cameoed As Themselves (With Bizarre Results)
Just try and stop Hideo Kojima putting himself in his games. He's turned up in Peace Walker as a recruitable soldier, in Metal Gear Solid 4 standing in a corner, and...
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6 Fallout Quests That Were Weird Even for Fallout (That Fallout 4 Will Need to Top)
The Wang Dang Atomic Tango quest is given to you by James Garrett, one of the twins who runs the Atomic Wrangler casino in Freeside. It seems he’s got some clients w...
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8 Weapons More Dangerous to the User Than Anyone Else
Take Spelunky's shotgun, for instance. Given that everything in Spelunky is absolutely lethal bar your own trousers, you’d have thought you’d be thankful for a bit o...
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Show of the Week: Rainbow Six Siege and 5 Games in Love with Smashing Up Buildings
Battlefield Bad Company 2 was so besotted with demolishing manmade structures that it bribed its players to flatten buildings with achievements, whereas Red Faction...
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Fallout 4 Tips: 8 Tips for Mastering the Wasteland in Fallout 4
These time-saving Fallout 4 tips involve supply lines for settlements via the Local Leader perk, waiting by sitting down, putting your companion in power armour, rem...
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7 Fallout Cults Who Dealt With the Apocalypse So Weirdly
After the apocalypse, some find meaning in life through religion, and then there's the Church of the Children of Atom, who worship the giant unexploded nuclear bomb...
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8 Dignity-Free Ways to Win at Videogames (If You Can Live With Yourself After)
The best and most exploitable part of a stealth system is the bit where an enemy forgets they saw you, or gets bored trying to find you, then goes back to whatever t...
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7 Videogame Vehicles So Rubbish We'd Rather Walk, Thanks
No disrespect to Leonardo da Vinci, the guy was great at painting enigmatic smiles, but not everything he touched turned to Mona Lisas. For example, the tank he desi...
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8 Signs You're Living in an Evil Dystopia
One of the quickest ways to check if you're living in a bleak, totalitarian dystopia is to stand in the street and look up. Brutalist skyscrapers are a dead giveaway...
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7 Times Cars Don't Work That Way, You Guys
Sega's classic arcade titles, including Daytona USA and Crazy Taxi, are some of the most notable culprits, but we wouldn't change them for the world. Deadly Premonit...
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Let's Play Elite Xbox One - We Are Bad at Parking Spaceships in Elite Xbox One Gameplay
Elite Dangerous might be set in a fictional future where humanity has escaped to the stars, but it's pretty scientific about its sci-fi. For that reason, space is re...
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8 Immortality Gadgets That Keep Us Alive No Matter How Hard We Die
Watch out for spoilers from the featured games: Bioshock Infinite, Destiny, Borderlands 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, Assassin's Creed, Elite Dangerous, Portal 2, Sunset Ov...
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7 AI Buddies Who Will Do the Hard Work for You, Hero
Watch out for minor spoilers for the following games: Spec Ops: The Line, Metal Gear Solid 5, The Last of Us, Bioshock Infinite, Fallout 3, Skyrim and Resident Evil....
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8 Bits of Fallout Logic to Remember for Fallout 4
Alcohol in the Fallout universe may have a negative impact on your charisma, but it has a positive impact on your strength. This gives us a situation in which you ca...
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7 Horrible Gifts You Can't Even Regift
They say it's the thought that counts, but they are wrong idiots. There are good gifts and there are rubbish gifts which make your life as the recipient measurably w...
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Fallout 4: 9 Life Lessons We Learned From Fallout 4
Lesson the first: it's better to be lucky than smart, in life as in Fallout 4, where a high luck stat can have you chancing upon more ammo and bottlecaps, and increa...
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8 Games So Unexpectedly Terrifying We Can Never Trust Again
Beware spoilers from BioShock Infinite, Metal Gear Solid, Ecco the Dolphin and Halo 1, if that's somehow still on your unfinished pile of shame. From creepy Watson i...
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8 'Health' Items That Would Be Seriously Bad for Your Health
Streets of Rage's trashcan roast chicken, Bloodborne's blood vial, Postal's 'health pipe' and Duke Nukem 3D's toilet water all figure among these ill-advised videoga...
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Fallout 4: The 6 Dickest Moves by Vault-Tec in the Vaults of Fallout 4
No main story mission spoilers ahead, but beware of spoilers for side missions based on the various side mission Vaults in Fallout 4. Take Vault 111 which, if you’re...
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7 Genius Tutorial Levels We Didn't Want to Skip Immediately
The best training levels sneak in a deft bit of scene setting at the same time. Consider Portal 2, in which you receive a mini tutorial framed as an automated check...
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