Section: Video Games

Journey soundtrack nominated for Grammy Award
Composer Austin Wintory receives nomination for Journey in the Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media category at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards.  The soundtrack written for Thatgamecompany's PlayStation 3-exclusive adventure game Journey has bee...
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Hawken Open Beta Starts Next Week
Free-to-play action game features multiplayer combat.  Fans of mech combat will be happy to know that the open beta for Hawken will start soon. Meteor Entertainment announced that the date for the public session will be December 12. Players c...
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Path of Exile open beta set for January
Free-to-play action RPG to feature character customization and competitive player-versus-player options.  The free-to-play action RPG Path of Exile now has an open beta date stamped on it. Developer Grinding Gear has announced that the game wil...
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Pikmin 3 delayed
Nintendo's new Wii U strategy game now slated for launch during April-June quarter.  Pikmin 3 has been delayed. During a Nintendo Direct briefing today, a company representative revealed that the Wii U real-time strategy game will launch during ...
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Guitar Hero 7 canceled – Report
Source says Activision killed development of guitar-focused game in 2011 after rocky production cycle, overreaching ambitions.  A new Guitar Hero game was in development at Activision subsidiary Vicarious Visions until early 2011, when the pub...
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BioWare teases next Mass Effect 3 DLC
Edmonton office bringing "all hands on deck" for untitled expansion to space RPG; host of writers, chief composer, and Seth Green all returning.  Last week's Omega expansion for Mass Effect 3 may not have been the game's last. Eurogamer has com...
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Fire Emblem: Awakening arrives Feb. 4
Nintendo confirms North American launch date for new 3DS game; Wii Fit U due first part of next year; Google Maps support for Wii U on the way.  A Nintendo Direct presentation today revealed that Fire Emblem: Awakening will launch in North Ameri...
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NPD: Windows 8 hasn’t ‘stimulated’ PC gaming
Research group rep says Microsoft's new OS has not made market worse, but hasn't made it better; 4.25 percent of Steam users running Windows 8 64-bit.  Microsoft's new operating system Windows 8 has not provided the jolt to the PC gaming crowd t...
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Canceled Streets of Rage remake footage appears
Studio head at Ruffian Games releases video footage of playable prototype representing "pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-alpha quality."  Ruffian Games has released footage of a playable prototype of its canceled Streets of Rage remake. Studio head Gary Lidd...
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Dragon Age III influenced by Skyrim
BioWare's Aaryn Flynn says it would be impossible to develop an RPG today without acknowledging and reacting to Bethesda's game.  Few concrete details are known concerning BioWare's upcoming Dragon Age III: Inquisition, but the developer has now...
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