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MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries Interview – Campaign Length, Epic Games Partnership & More

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MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries is only a few days away from its December 10th launch date. The game, developed and published by Vancouver-based studio Piranha Games (MechWarrior Online), is the first single player focused title in over a decade and a half to be released in the franchise. Needless to say, plenty of hardcore fans of …

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Epic Wins Studio of the Year at Golden Joystick Awards; Resident Evil 2 Gets Game of the Year

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The 37th Golden Joystick Awards took place today in London, Bath, United Kingdom. The ‘biggest publically voted Game Awards’ distributed prizes for the best games released this year, at least as far as the participants in the polls were concerned. Big winners were Epic Games, which took away Studio of the Year and eSports Game …

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Age of Empires IV Debut Gameplay Footage Serves up an Epic English-Mongol Showdown

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Microsoft first announced Age of Empires IV over two years ago, and since that initial reveal we’ve been given…very little. No gameplay footage, no real concrete details. Well during today’s big X019 Inside Xbox show that finally changed, as we got a new Age of Empires IV trailer featuring actual gameplay! The classic real-time strategy …

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Quixel’s Acquistion By Epic Will Bring 10,000 Assets To Developers For Free

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Epic Games’ headquarters Fortnite’s creator Epic games, a private company has announced the acquisition of photogrammetry asset holding company Quixel. Quixel is based in Sweden, and the acquisition will give Epic Games access to the company’s 10,000 photgrammatic assets. Quixel’s assets are used by developers throughout the world to make movies and create games. The …

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RUINER and Nuclear Throne Are the Latest Free Games You Can Get via Epic Games Store

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RUINER and Nuclear Throne are the latest free games available via the Epic Games Store. You’ll be able to permanently add them to your library until November 14th, when the next free game (The Messenger by Sabotage Studios) will take over the promotion. RUINER, normally priced $19.99, is a top-down brutal ‘action shooter’ released by …

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Death Stranding Will Be Released on Both Steam and the Epic Games Store

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Last week it was revealed the initially-PS4-exclusive Death Stranding would be heading to PC in 2020, which, of course, immediately kicked off the speculation – which storefront would it be coming to? Will it be Steam or has the Epic Games Store snagged itself another high-profile exclusive? Well, it seems Kojima won’t be playing favorites! …

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World of Warcraft Shadowlands Expansion Releases Next Year; Base, Epic and Heroic Editions Available for Pre-order Now

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World of Warcraft Shadowlands is World of Warcraft’s next expansion, Blizzard has announced at Blizzcon 2019. Earlier this week we already reported on Shadowlands possibly being the next World of Warcraft expansion, and Blizzard has now officially confirmed the arrival of the expansion through one hell of an announcement trailer featuring Bolvar ‘The Lich King’ …

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EA is Becoming “More Open” In How Its Games Are Delivered; Says It’s “Open” to Bringing EA Access to the Epic Game Store

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EA is becoming more open in how its games are delivered and the publisher doesn’t rule out the possibility that it will bring EA Access to the Epic Game Store. The recent announcement that EA will once again be bringing its titles to Steam alongside its  EA Access subscription has left the community speculating about …

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Surviving the Aftermath Releases On Early Access Today (Epic Games Store and Xbox One)

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Surviving the Aftermath, the next installment in the Surviving franchise (Surviving Mars) will enter early access later on today on Epic Games store and Xbox One as announced today at Paradox’s annual PDXCon in Berlin (where the game is available on the show floor). During the early access period, customers will enjoy a so-called ‘early …

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Kine Developer Discusses the Benefits of Funding Support from Both Epic Games Store and Google Stadia

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Kine, a gorgeous puzzle game made by a lone developer, recently launched on PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. That lone developer is Gwen Frey, who previously worked on games like Marvel Heroes, BioShock Infinite and more recently The Flame in the Flood before attempting the passion project that turned out to be …

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Observer and Alan Wake’s American Nightmare Now Free on the Epic Games Store

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Observer and Alan Wake’s American Nightmare are the two new games available for free via the Epic Games store for this week. They’ll be up for grabs to be permanently kept in your library until October 24th, when they’ll get replaced by Layers of Fear Master Edition and Q.U.B.E. 2. Observer is a cyberpunk horror …

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Devolver Co-Founder Wishes the Steam vs Epic Games Store Conversation to Be Reset and Take Place Properly

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While the Steam versus Epic Games store war continues unabated, there are some who would like the conversation on this hot topic to be reset. Speaking with Gamespot at PAX Australia, Graeme Struthers (one of the Founders of Devolver Digital) said the conversation never properly took place as it should have. He then went on …

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Epic Backs Free Speech after Blizzard Bans Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Statement

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As you may have heard, Activision Blizzard found themselves in a spot of political hot water this weekend when they opted to suspend a professional Hearthstone player for voicing support for the ongoing pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. For those who haven’t been keeping up, at the end of a post-game interview at the Asia …

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Surviving the Aftermath is the Follow Up to Surviving Mars, Early Access Epic Exclusive

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Get ready for some more strategic survival, as Paradox Interactive has announced they’re following up the successful Surviving Mars with a new title, Surviving the Aftermath. As the name implies, Aftermath will have a post-apocalyptic theme, but we don’t know much beyond that. Presumably the game will focus on city/base building like its predecessor, although …

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