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Insomniac's Edge of Nowhere is using many of VR's unique advantages to make a tribute to the work of H.P. Lovecraft. 

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After a weekend spent with the Doom closed multiplayer beta, how does it stack up?

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Valve goes back to The Lab for some much-needed humor. 

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Ten paces, turn, and fire with the Oculus Touch.

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Four words: competetive eagle dive-bombing.

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Offworld Trading Company defies easy categorization. We take a closer look at this RTS with a stock market twist, and talk to studio head Soren Johnson about the inspiration behind it.

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Digital Cyber Cherries has just taken the wraps off its first official game release, and shares exclusive details with Shacknews on its co-op mode, environmental hazards, and more.

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Shacknews plays Unravel and gets all tangled up with Yarny.

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Shacknews joins the ongoing battle between vegetation and the undead horde with an early look at Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 2. If you thought the first game added a sense of weirdness to team-based battle, just wait until time travel and killer citrus is involved.

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Indivisible is a new side-scrolling action role-playing game being developed by Lab Zero (of Skullgirls fame) that recently started its crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo. We got to play the early prototype while at the New York Comic Con, and we're already hooked.

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Capcom debuted Laura, a brand new Street Fighter 5 character, at the New York Comic Con yesterday, and we were able to check out her moves, along with other new fighters like Rashid and Karin.

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Shacknews gets an in-depth look at Deus Ex: Humanity Divided. The world has changed quite a bit from the previous game. However, using a bunch of powerful augmentations and weapons usually solves just about any problem.

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Between its Guitar Hero mechanics, first-person perspective, and FMV graphical style, Guitar Hero Live is a strange chimera of a video game. During a recent visit to FreeStyle Games, Shacknews got an inside look at how it all came together.

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Shacknews goes hands-on with the Civilization: Beyond Earth - Rising Tide expansion and claim the seas in the name of our empire. Here's what we found in the ocean depths.

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Shacknews checks out Tales of Zestiria, the latest adventure in the longstanding Tales series of role-playing games. How well does this anime game series, with inspirations taken from classic literature, shaping up? Our impressions.