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Ubisoft dialing back DRM for Driver: San Francisco on PC

Ubisoft is backing away from plans to saddle PC Driver: San Franciscoplayers withrestrictiveDRM – but just barely. Responding to backlash over its initial decision to make the open world driving gameunplayable without a constant internet connection, the studiostatedit will be switching to aless demanding DRM systemwhereby players will only have …

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Saints Row: The Third hands-on preview

“So press the Left trigger for a melee take down.” Drew Holmes, writer for Saints Row: The Third, said.We went ahead and innocently followed his instruction.Our character whipped around and kicked the nearest pedestrian, who just so happened to be some sort of balloon chested stripper nurse in a g-string. …

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Notch challenges Bethesda to Quake 3 duel over Scrolls legal dispute

There’s nothing particularly funny about Markus %26ldquo;Notch%26rdquo; Persson’s battle with Bethesda’s (read: ZeniMax’s) lawyers over the alleged misuse of the name ‘Scrolls’ for Mojang Studios’ next game, however there is something refreshingly awesome about his proposed solution. Hoping to end the dispute as quickly and honorably as possible, the Minecraft …

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Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor trailer offers first-person mech-war

If games are the most technologically-obsessed entertainment medium of our time (which they are), and game development is the most techno-fetishistic of all entertainment professions (which it is,) it’s always interesting to see how developers get their heads around the notion of a world in which high-tech doesn’t exist. Capcom’s …

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God of War: Origins Collection hands-on preview

It’s sad, isn’t it? God of War III was the last in Kratos’s console trilogy, and since its release there hasn’t been a new game announced for PlayStation 3. What’s a hungry God of War fan to do? Fear not, as there’s one remaining God of War experience in the …

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