Dungeon Keeper: Fabricated Ratings & Microtransaction Madness

One of my earliest memories in gaming was waiting for my older brother to stop playing Dungeon Keeper on our old PC so I could play it myself. He and I adored it, and are amongst the thousands of people who are still waiting for a worthy remake. The thousands of dungeon marauding fans like ourselves were not waiting, however, for a calamitous iOS/Android remake which tears the soul of the game out by the roots and replaces it with a hollow port which has room for little more than your credit card details.

And yet, here we are.

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DICE Go Democratic With Battlefield 4 Fixes

If you’ve purchased DICE’s epic first person shooter Battlefield 4 across any platform, you will likely have noticed that it had a few discernible ‘issues’ at the beginning. And for a while after that. And now too, come to think of it.

Fear not, however, because developers have taken the democratic route and are now asking players what they want to see changed.

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Epic Games Goes Full ‘Pimp My Ride’ On University of Staffordshire

No, Staffordshire University students aren’t driving around with twelve inch rims and state-of-the-art sound systems in every orifice of their ’92 Renault Clio’s. They didn’t even get to meet Xzibit. Even better, Epic Games have delivered 85 cutting edge computers to the University of Staffordshire with all the firepower necessary to run their latest Unreal Developer Kit.

Luckiest students alive? Yeah, without a doubt.

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YouTube Invokes Copyright Claim on Terry Cavanagh’s Own Game

Yup. Sure, YouTube are a big entity and it can get things wrong now and then – these things are to be expected. No harm, no foul and all that nonsense.

Except that when Terry Cavanagh appealed the claim against his own trailer, YouTube rejected it.

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Diablo Community Aid Blizzard in Creation of Next Legendary

Opening up the floor to the community has its positives and its negatives, and in the gaming world you may just be taking your own life in your hands. Runescape developers Jagex have had reaped the rewards with their new community polling system on recent updates, and it seems to be going pretty well.

Plus, if they don’t like it, you have complete deniability – what’s not to like?

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Project Christine: Modules, Modules Everywhere

Nope, Project Christine is not a leaked NSA file, but is in fact far more awesome. Razer, the creators of some great products and tools for gamers, have ventured into creating their own gaming computer and revealed their concept model at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Oh, and it looks seriously, seriously cool.

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Steam Machine: The Customisable Console

In the world of customers satisfaction, the business model of knowing your consumer has been turned on it’s head. Rather than a company knowing what’s best for it’s customers, we’re led to believe that consumers actually know what’s best for themselves. Bonkers, right?

Good thing Valve are giving customers a choice of what they want their Steam Machine to be then.

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World Class Hackers Bring Steam To A Standstill. Also Sarcasm

No, I’m not being sarcastic about Steam being brought to a standstill – a series of DDoS attacks really have kept users out of most of Steam’s utilities over the course of today. Rather, my sarcasm extends to the pair who are mounting these ‘attacks’ and consider themselves hackers, rather than just your average anti-establishmentarian douche with a keyboard and a deathwish.

Anyone could download a DDoS program and assault one of the world’s largest distributor of video games – it’s just that nobody’s stupid enough to do it.

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Just Cause 2 Christmas Giveaway!

Christmas is a time of giving, of outlandish woolly jumpers and spending time with family. It’s a time to enjoy yourself, and the best way to enjoy yourself is playing amazing games and leaving the relatives to ramble to themselves about how much you’ve grown.

So to kick the festive giveaway off, I’m giving away a Steam key for Just Cause 2!

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Are eSports Real? No, Say People With No Connection to Video Gaming

Unsurprisingly, a contingent of ex-sports stars on America’s HBO channel have deemed eSports as not a real sport. Arguments go both ways, of course, and the definition between sport and competition is always contentious.

What is a little surprising, from a group of professionals, is the flagrant ignorance apparent throughout the discussion.

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