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Originally Posted by wraggster

The developers of The War Z have revealed a key gameplay feature for its upcoming ‘Not DayZ’ survival horror title.
The War Z will, like its close rival DayZ, rob players of all of their progress when they die. But it also plans to go a stage further, thanks to the planned introduction of a real-money item shop, which as of yet has not been introduced to DayZ.
“Yes, you’ll lose what you have in your backpack when you die – both in Normal and Hardcore modes,” Hammerpoint Interactive

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Originally Posted by wraggster

It’s not just one of the greatest pre-order incentives of all time, Hitman Sniper Challenge could also become a game in its own right.
Developer IO Interactive told MCV the success of Sniper Challenge has been ‘crazy’. And the mode has even influenced what it is doing within Absolution.
“People are playing it a lot,” said game director Tore Blystad. “I think the No.1 player in the world has clocked in hundreds of hours so far which is completely crazy, right? We’re very

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Zynga has partnered with MMO icon Richard Garriott for the launch of his studio’s new social game Ultimate Collector.
The title is already available on Facebook in the form of a Limited Beta. It is developed by Portalarium, the studio founded by Ultima Online Tabula Rasa creator Richard Garriott.
The game will be made available to the userbase of Zynga’s own publishing portal Zynga Network, which the firm claims has a user base of some 306m players.
“Ultimate Collector is

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Originally Posted by wraggster

EA has revealed that The Hunt Map Pack for Medal of Honor: Warfighter will allow gamers to compete online in a locations based on the real-world hunt for Osama Bin Laden.
The former leader of terrorist group Al-Qaeda was killed by American special forces in May 2011.
Now EA has decided to give gamers a taste of the saga by basing its upcoming DLC release on two locations associated with the decade-long search for Bin Laden.
The first is The Darra Gun Market which, in the publisher’s

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Love, Eskil Steenberg's beautiful, ideological co-op game, is now free to download.
The game, which Steenberg has been working on alone, without funding, for five years, has been made free because its creator, simply put, wants as many people as possible to experience it.
"I have tried to make the game of my dreams and to push the envelope of what a game can be in every area," he writes on the Quel Solaar site. "After countless iterations, innovations and experiments I

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