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Originally Posted by wraggster

The puzzle of Level-5's unannounced TGS games may be partly solved already. News out of Famitsu (via Siliconera) reveals a new Professor Layton game for iOS and Android. Professor Layton and the Century of the Seven Phantom Thieves puts players in the role not of the top-hatted archaeologist, but a user-created avatar who searches for information on thieves in London.

Players also gain an unspecified advantage

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Originally Posted by wraggster

The Gunstringer: Dead Man Running is a significant departure from the original game. For one thing, it's not a Kinect game for Xbox, but rather a Windows 8 game for PCs and tablets. For another, development is taking place not in Austin, but up north in Canada, at Other Ocean Interactive.

Most significantly, Dead Man Running is now an auto-running game with shooting challenges, in both a Story Mode and

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Lara Croft is a permanent fixture at the MCV offices.
Eidos had mocked up an image of her reading your favourite trade weekly to celebrate our first birthday (which was 1999). It still stands proud in our office today, reminding us of a time when the Britsoft pin-up was one of the biggest gaming icons in the world.
But time has not been kind to the Tomb Raider. A failed foray into cinema plus a handful of duff releases and Lara’s star has faded. The action adventure series was in desperate

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Diaspora: Shattered Armistice, the Battlestar Galactica game based on the FreeSpace 2 Open engine, has launched! This cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac) release includes the ability to fly the MK VII Viper, the Raptor (or the new MK VIIe strike variant), multiplayer, a mission editor, an original soundtrack, and full voice acting."

http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/0...ra-has-arrived

Originally Posted by wraggster

Activision has revealed the minimum requirement for the PC version of Black Ops 2.
The latest Call of Duty PC requirements will require Windows Vista or later after Activision upgraded the engine to use DirectX11.
A Steam hardware survey from August 2012 reveals that Windows XP still powers 12.6 per cent of Steam’s users.
Set during the 21st century Cold War, Black Ops 2 will be released on November 13th, with a Digital Deluxe Edition available for PC.
The full minimum

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