New Beautiful Dear Esther Gameplay Trailer and Eleven Amazing Screenshots

The first official Dear Esther trailer has appeared on the Dear Esther site, celebrating its four IGF award nominations, first review (8/10 from Edge Magazine)and its upcoming release on Steam on 14th February (valentines day).

The trailer and screenshots offers a glimpse of the lovely island that you explore in the game. It looks as though it’s going to be one the most beautiful thing ever made with the Source Engine. The Source Engine is pretty old now so it’s quite an achievement for the developers who originally made the game in 2008 as a mod for Half-Life 2, to make it look so good.

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Terraria Patch 1.1.2 is Now Available

Updates to Terraria have been released however its just a few bug fixes and multilingual support.

The updates will be applied automatically if the game is installed on Steam.

My Terraria guides:

GoG is Releasing Original Syndicate Tomorrow

The original 1993 Bullfrog Syndicate game is to be available once again on Good Old Games.

It will be released for $5.99 (£3.89), GoG had previously had trouble getting the rights for the game, like so many other classics being caught up in confusion over ownership.

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Mass Effect 3 Demo Available on Valentines Day

The Reaper invasion and the end of the world is almost here. You will able to see what to expect in the new Mass Effect game when the Mass Effect 3 demo comes out in February.

On February 14 (Valentine’s Day), you can download the demo for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC and experience single-player and co-op multiplayer sections of the game. You can also try out the title’s Kinect functionality if you have Kinect that is.

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How Embarrassing: The Sims 3 Recruit Katy Perry

The Sims 3 Katy Perry — The likeness is uncanny.

Electronic Arts announced yesterday that Katy Perry will be collaborating with The Sims Studio to produce a variety of additions for The Sims 3 such as new hairstyles, furniture and new Sims titles.

First from the partnership is The Sims 3 Showtime Katy Perry Collector’s Edition (a mouthful) that will include a bonus venue, stage props, fashions, guitar and a lot more Katy Perry themed guff.

To see what is included and more information, you can check out the screens and video below.

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Complete Mass Effect 3 Character and Squad List. Squad Member Backgrounds, Pictures and More

Mass Effect 3 Characters — Love is in the air?

This is a character guide I have put together for Mass Effect 3. It features a complete list of returning characters from Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2, characters that will be in your squad and a list of new characters that are being added in Mass Effect 3.

I will likely update the guide when more information is available.

This took a long time to do so enjoy.

Read more to see the character list, squad members list, character backgrounds and a lot more.

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Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Books #07 A Tragedy in Black

This is a little series I am starting where I go through several books from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Number #07 A Tragedy in Black by Unknown.

This book is a folk tale from the time of the Oblivion Crisis. It is found throughout many places in Skyrim.

In Skyrim this book gives the reader one skill level in Enchanting.

Two New Screenshots of XCOM: Enemy Unknown

The US video game magazine Game Informer have released some more screenshots for alien killing simulator XCOM: Enemy Unknown. They all seem to be from the same level so far.

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My Atom Zombie Smasher Campaign Logs #03

This is a series I am starting where I post my campaign logs from the excellent indie game Atom Zombie Smasher. I will use both victory and defeats as I slowly get better at the game.

These camping logs aren’t modified in any way.

Minecraft Has More Than 20 Million Registered Users

Minecraft Art — Digging a hole for love.

Markus Persson Minecraft’s game creator tweeted that the cube sandbox game has hit another milestone of 20 million registered users.

His tweet said “Minecraft now has 20 million registered users. At 70 kg each, that’s 25% of the weight of the Great Pyramid of Giza.” He followed it up with another adding. “At 4 liters per day, it would take a million years to drink 20 million liquidized humans. Just saying. I’ll stop now.” Notch you weirdo.