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Fire Emblem Awakening review: A cruel, fair, and fine game of love and war

Nintendo's Fire Emblem: Awakening adds powerful stakes to the usual swords, sorcery and strategy of role-playing games. It's fantasy about love and death.
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Castlevania: Lords of Shadow—Mirror of Fate may jump from Nintendo 3DS to home consoles

Resident Evil: Revelations may not be the only Nintendo 3DS game to move over to home consoles. Konami says that Castlevania: Lords of Shadow—Mirror of Fate could get an HD release in the future.
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Twitch Turbo elevates eSports broadcasting to the next level – for a price

Twitch, the eSports broadcasting service, is entering a new phase: The premium subscription phase. Twitch Turbo lets people watch video game broadcasts ad-free for a monthly fee, but will audiences bite?
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Ubisoft says Assassin’s Creed was always supposed to have co-op

The original Assassin's Creed was supposed to let people collaborate on taking down Templars, but the technology and story kept co-op out of the game. Now it looks like Ubisoft is re-approaching the idea of cooperative Assassin's Creed.
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Want to know why we haven’t seen Psychonauts 2 yet? There are 18 million reasons

Minecraft creator Markus Persson was a likely investor for Psychonauts 2 in 2012 but development costs were too high. How high? The developer shed light on the necessary budget to make a sequel for Double Fine's telepathic platformer.
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Resident Evil to return to its horror roots after RE6 failed to impress

Critics and fans alike rejected Resident Evil 6 when it came out in 2012, causing Capcom's tent pole release to drastically miss sales expectations. Now the publisher is reconsidering the action-focused direction of the series.
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Jetsetter: Developer says PlayStation 4 is delayed in Europe to 2014

This week in Digital Trends' Jetsetter, we take a look at Angry Birds studio Rovio's transformation into a publisher and one of Japan's best-known indie developers going corporate. The big story: The PlayStation 4's international release.
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When Sony Liverpool died, it took with it at least two PS4 games

The PlayStation 4 is expected out this year, but Sony's studios have been working on games for the new machine for some time now. Sony Liverpool was working on a crime game for the console when it was closed, and art for that game shows what could have been.
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German consumer group lobbies for Steam to allow used game sales

The video game retail industry has relied on used game sales for its profits for decades, but the shift to digital distribution has quashed the resale market. 2012 court rulings in the EU, though, pushed some groups to try and get Valve to allow used game sales on Steam.
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IS Microsoft moving away from indie games after killing the XNA indie gaming platform?

Microsoft confirmed on Friday that XNA, its simplified video game development tools used to build Xbox Live Indie Games, is being phased out over the next year. What will this mean for the Xbox Live Indie Games market?
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Xseed Games confirms Killer is Dead, Ys Memories of Celceta for release in the US

Xseed Games will bring a plethora of promising Japanese games to the US in 2013, including Goichi Suda's Killer is Dead. While this may change, though, it looks like the publisher may finally be done with Sony's PSP handheld in North America.
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EA console earnings wilt as Medal of Honor is taken “out of rotation,” even as Battlefield 4 is teased

Electronic Arts has successfully grown its digital games business to a $1.5 billion per year operation, but dwindling interest in Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 games continues to damage the companies earning power.
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The future is Nii: Nintendo’s president looks to the future of Nintendo hardware beyond Wii U and Nintendo 3DS

Nintendo' gaming machines need help. The Nintendo 3DS is selling well, but its games are not. Meanwhile the Nintendo Wii U is struggling. Company president Satoru Iwata explains how Nintendo is altering its hardware development to tackle these challenges.
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The World of Warcraft film lives! And its choice for director may surprise you

When the Warcraft movie was first announced in 2009, it was supposed to come out in 2013 as a Sam Raimi-directed production. Now the movie will hit theaters in 2015, directed by Moon and Source Code creator Duncan Jones.
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Take-Two Interactive rocked as Grand Theft Auto V is delayed to September 2013

Rockstar Games confirmed on Thursday that Grand Theft Auto V's official release date is September 17, 2013. The studio wants more time to polish the game, but its parent company Take-Two Interactive stands to lose even more money because of the delay.
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Nvidia’s Project Shield gets one of its first games with ArmA Tactics

Bohemia Interactive's got a third game coming out this year alongside ArmA 3 and DayZ. ArmA Tactics is a strategy spinoff of the company's military simulator series, and it's also one of the first games for Nvidia's new handheld gaming device.
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Skulls of the Shogun review: A perfectly executed slice of strategy

17-Bit Entertainment's comes roaring out the gate with a debut game that may not change the world but is a nearly perfect game of quick fix strategy. Skulls of the Shogun is an effervescent panacea of strategy hounds that need a break from XCOM.
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Six months after Prince of Persia Zero screens leak, Ubisoft says the series is “paused”

After a botched film adaptation and a lackluster sequel in 2010, the Prince of Persia series is primed for a refresh. Despite leaked screens suggesting otherwise, Ubisoft says that it's put the famous franchise on hold.
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Wii U matches early Wii sales at 3 million, but Nintendo earnings show a murky future for the machine

Nintendo's holiday quarter earnings show that the Nintendo Wii U sold just as well as the Nintendo Wii during its first weeks on sale, but it's doubtful that the console will be able to maintain its momentum going forward.
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GungHo Online Entertainment acquires No More Heroes studio Grasshopper Manufacture

GungHo Online Entertainment bought up yet another of Japan's remaining independent video game development studios on Wednesday, acquiring Grasshopper Manufacture, the idiosyncratic studio behind No More Heroes, Killer 7, and 2013's Killer is Dead.
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Twitch brings its video game broadcasting tools to consoles with Call of Duty: Black Ops 2

eSports broadcasting company Twitch has seen its viewership grow to 23 million people per month since it opened in 2011, and that's just thanks to PC games. Now its broadcasting tools are available on consoles in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.
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Kinect creator leaves Microsoft to join Sony’s PlayStation EyeToy studio in London

Kameo: Elements of Power directo and key Kinect developer George Andreas has left Microsoft and Rare after sixteen years with the studio. Who lured him away? None other than Sony's motion controller studio, Sony London.
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The tank maker that would be king: Wargaming.net eyes the console after acquiring Day 1 Studios

Wargaming.net is one of the biggest gaming companies out there by audience size, with 45 million World of Tanks players in its stable. Now it wants in on the console market, acquiring MechAssault and F.E.A.R. developer Day 1 Studios.
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Former Wipeout developers strike out on their own to form new studio Sawfly

With Sony Liverpool closed, the future of the PlayStation-centric Wiepout series is in question, but some of the creators from that series already have a new home. Sawfly is a new indie studio from four of the creators of Wipeout Pulse.
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Darksiders may be dead, but its developers will live on as the newly formed Crytek USA

Crytek continues its global expansion, this time with a new studio in Austin, Texas. Crytek USA isn't just a new branch, though, it's a second chance for key staff members from Vigil Games, the Darksiders studio set adrift by THQ.
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Disney closes Warren Spector’s studio after Epic Mickey 2 disappoints

Disney is reinventing its gaming business in 2013, releasing new products like Disney Infinity. Part of the process is closing old studios, though, and sadly Warren Spector's Junction Point Studios it shutting down after Epic Mickey 2 failed to find an audience.
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Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls composer Normand Corbeil dies of cancer

Quantic Dream collaborator and composer Normand Corbeil passed away last week, leaving behind a legacy of spectacular scores in games like Indigo Prophecy and Heavy Rain.
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As China’s gaming industry nears $10 bil, the country may lift ban on video game consoles after thirteen years

The Chinese government banned video game consoles in 2000 because they corrupted the country's young people. Thirteen years later, the Chinese gaming industry is worth nearly $10 billion and the Ministry of Culture is reconsidering its console ban.
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Disney vows to monitor its video game business for excessive violence

With Washington backing new studies into the link between violence and violent video games, major corporations in the industry like Disney are promising to do due diligence in curbing violent content in their products.
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Pres. Obama, Republican and Democrat senators back new study into the effects of violent video games on children

West Virginia Democrat Senator Jay Rockefeller introduced the Violent Content Research Act of 2013 on Thursday as part of President Barack Obama's legislative push to combat gun violence. Will the NAS study find something previous studies into the link between games and aggression did not?
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half life meets star wars at dice 2013 as gabe newell and j abrams host opening keynote

Half-Life meets Star Wars at DICE 2013 as Gabe Newell and J.J. Abrams open the show

Two of the most watched creators in entertainment will co-host the opening keynote address at the Academy of Interactive Arts and Science's DICE Summit next week: Star Wars Episode VII director J.J. Abrams and Valve president Gabe Newell.
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keeping nintendo wii and sony psp alive an interview with xseed games ken berry the last story

Xseed Games’ Ken Berry explains why it continues to support the Wii and PSP even though Nintendo and Sony don’t

Xseed Games is known for bringing niche Japanese games to English-speaking audiences, but it's also got a habit of putting out games for seemingly dead platforms. Xseed VP Ken Berry talks with Digital Trends about how to keep consoles alive.
Gaming Features

Jetsetter: Ubisoft now owns 1666, the brand new franchise from the director of Assassin’s Creed

In this week's Jetsetter, we look at how the French publisher Ubisoft just brought one of its key creators back into the fold by acquiring THQ Montreal. That studio's lead is Patirce Desilets, director of Assassin's Creed, and creator of the new 1666.
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I Am Legend producer brings Robotech out of the ’80s into movie theaters

The stockpile of 1980s cartoon, toy, fantasy and science fiction properties is starting to run dry as producers Tobey Mcguire and Akiva Goldsman pick up Robotech for a film adaptation.
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