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Originally Posted by wraggster

Last week we got an extended glimpse at Outlast, the first-person horror game from several ex-Ubisoft devs at new indie outfit Red Barrels. Many of you were hungry for more details about the promising survival game, so we caught up with Red Barrels' co-founder Philippe Morin, who worked as a designer on Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, Assassin's Creed and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.Speaking over Skype, I first asked how exactly Outlast plays, since the trailer didn't show any gameplay footage."The

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Originally Posted by wraggster

EA rolled out a "major" FIFA 13 update for PC over the weekend.
It addresses a range of issues surrounding online connectivity, invisible balls, game crashes, pass responsiveness and audio commentary, among other things.A community manager for the game said the same update for PS3 and Xbox 360 will be announced as soon as release dates are confirmed.
Here are the full title update

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Battlefield 1942 is now free to download on PC as publisher EA celebrates its 10-year anniversary and the Battlefield 3 Premium service having passed 2 million users.
The 10-year-old classic can be grabbed for free exclusively via EA's PC download service, Origin, as of today."When we launched Battlefield 1942 ten years ago, we had lofty ambitions to create a first-person shooter that would

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Originally Posted by wraggster

The firm behind upcoming free game Hawken has scored an extra $18m in VC funding.
And it says it can use the money to quickly build an audience of over 10m players.
The PC?title from Meteor Entertainment is due for a global roll out on December 12th, and this week closed a second round of funding.
Hawken is the antithesis of blockbusters like Call of Duty. New studio Adhesive built it using the Unreal engine and paired with an equally new publisher to launch the game.
The

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Originally Posted by wraggster

A third piece of downloadable content has been announced for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
It’s called Dragonborn and will be released on December 4^th. It will cost 1,600 Microsoft Points on Xbox Live.
A debut trailer can be seen below and suggests that the content will very much return to the epic scale and dramatic sensibilities of the game’s core offering. Note the dragon riding.
The first Skyrim DLC was called Dawnguard and was released on May 1^st. It concentrated on vampires

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