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Originally Posted by wraggster

Activision celebrates Pitfall's 30th anniversary with a new iOS adventure for Pitfall Harry. Don't expect the same side-scrolling, campfire-jumping treasure hunt, however, as Pitfall! has been updated for the 2012 App Store market by Activision's mobile studio, now known as The Blast Furnace.

That updating means it's an auto-runner with an in-game store, of course. That's ... not really Pitfall at all, so much

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Toki Tori2 was officially announced for Wii U today, and will be available on the console and Steam "soon-ish." Developer Two Tribes stated back in February that it planned to bring the chick-fil-adventure to the Wii U's eShop, but set its intentions in stone today on the company's site.

Two Tribes also discussed the Tokidex feature for the Wii U version, which will allow players to use the WiiPad as a virtual camera with a viewfinder. "Any creatures photographed will

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Originally Posted by wraggster

The third collection of content for Modern Warfare 3 is available on Xbox Live today: The Chaos Pack includes the new Special Ops 'Chaos Mode,' three new Face Off maps and four new Special Ops missions, shown off in the above video.

The Chaos Pack runs $15, or 1200 Microsoft Points, and it will hit PS3 and PC "at a later date."

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/08/09/ps...n-live-on-xbl/

Originally Posted by wraggster

The issue of gamers’ consumer rights has once again hit the headlines after another publisher abandoned plans to patch a product that has already been sold to consumers.
Konami has announced that despite releasing a patch for the PS3 version of Silent Hill HD Collection, it has abandoned plans to release the patch on Xbox 360 due to “technical issues and resources”.
The game has been bugged by frame rate and audio syncing issues since release.
The publisher says that it “apologizes

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Scary games are, as a rule, not for this author. And as you’ve probably heard, Slender is VERY scary.
The idea stems from a Something Awful thread where users would Photoshop pictures to insert ghostly images lingering in the background. Over time one figure became increasingly common – Slender Man.
It’s on this ghastly fellow that the game Slender is based.
You could say that Slender is an absolutely dreadful experience despite its simplicity. MCV would argue that it’s

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