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Originally Posted by wraggster

In more shenanigans around quiet releases, Ubisoft today stealthily brought forward the PC release of I Am Alive by one week, meaning it should be out tomorrow. Ubisoft originally scheduled the urban disaster game for a September 13 release, but quietly altered Steam and Ubishop pages to say otherwise. We've reached out to Ubisoft for comment on the changed release date.

What seems like more bungling

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Originally Posted by wraggster

FarmVille. Just the name likely conjures up some vivid thoughts and opinions in the minds of gamers everywhere. As the flagship casual social game for both Facebook and Zynga, FarmVille can't help but be a lightning rod for debates about gaming's audiences, game design, and the role that video games can and do play in our daily lives. Time labeled the game one of the "fifty worst inventions" of all time,

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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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