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Originally Posted by wraggster

Deep Silver has announced an April 26^th 2013 release date for Dead Island Riptide in the UK.
It will be released a few days earlier on April 23^rd in the US and Canada. Launch formats will be Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.
The publisher has also announced two SKUs that are already available for pre-order.
The cunningly entitled Pre-Order Edition “will include an exclusive pack of weapon mods that allows even more, manifold ways to dispose of the ghastly zombie hordes on Palanai island”.

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Originally Posted by wraggster

IGF 2013 entry Atum is a game that lets you be in two places at once... sort of. The idea is that you're locked into a first-person perspective where you're sitting at a computer playing a 2D platformer.Hideo Kojima is probably kicking himself for not thinking of this first.

The WASD keys control your 2D game-within-a-game avatar, while your mouse looks around a white, sterile Mirror's

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas now has an ESRB rating for PlayStation 3, following in the footsteps of PS2 siblings GTA 3 and Vice City. Curiously, the ESRB also re-rated Vice City for PS3, maybe feeling the need for a nostalgic revisit in light of its 10th anniversary and arrival on iOS and Android.With GTA 3 recently releasing on PSN as a PS2 Classic, it's not a great leap to suggest we'll see Vice City and San Andreas do the same in the future.http://www.joystiq.com/2012/10/29/gr...-esrb-for-ps3/

Originally Posted by wraggster

Pixld, the iOS puzzle game from Portal co-creator Kim Swift and Quantum Conundrum developer Airtight Games, is now available on the App Store. It's currently going for an introductory $0.99, but having introduced itself it'll return to a regular price of $1.99.

The games gives players a grid of cyan and navy blocks, tasking them with making color-matching rectangles by flipping the blocks'

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Originally Posted by wraggster

A bunch of new Grand Theft Auto 5 details will arrive on November 8 when a digital edition of the latest issue of Game Informer is released.
The open world action game is set to adorn the cover of GI's December issue, which will feature 18 pages of GTA 5 coverage.GTA 5 will be released in the spring of 2013,according to images that have surfaced online supposedly showing European pre-order posters.

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