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Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag review

Ubisoft combats an increasingly stale formula by adding a few new tricks, and setting the bar extremely high on the amount of digital real estate an open-world game can offer.
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Call of Duty: Ghosts review

This year’s Call of Duty offers a single-player experience filled with thrills and a flawed plot, but the changes to the multiplayer are the best in years.
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Knack review

Directed by Mark Cerny, lead architect of the PlayStation 4, ‘Knack’ uses the PS4’s hardware in a way few other launch titles do, then wraps it in an extremely familiar shell.
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Need for Speed: Rivals review

Fledgling developer Ghost Games leans heavily on it Criterion Games pedigree with ‘Need for Speed: Rivals,’ the fastest griefing on four wheels.
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NBA Live 14 review

After years on hiatus, Electronic arts and EA Tiburon are back with its first basketball game since 2009’s ‘NBA Live 10,’ with the next-gen only ‘NBA Live 14.’
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The Walking Dead Season 2 – Episode 1: All That Remains review

Telltale returns with season 2 of The Walking Dead episodic game. Episode 1, titled ‘All That Remains,’ is a little slow to get going, but promises big things in the future.
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Outlast PS4 review

Developer Red Barrels brings its survival-horror PC game to the PlayStation 4. The game is a faithful translation, and the console version brings with it the best – and worst – of the original.
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Thief review

Eidos Montreal and Square Enix have revived the Thief franchise with a new reboot that honors the games in series that went before it, but doesn’t seem to have learned much over the years.
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Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 review

Konami returns to the Castlevania series with a continuation of Mercury Steam’s Lords of Shadow games. The game lacks some of the fun the previous Castlevania games, but makes up for it with stellar combat mechanics.
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The Walking Dead: Season 2 – Episode 2: A House Divided Review

The second episode of Telltalle Games’ The Walking Dead Season 2 improves upon the first episode, and hints that the second season may be every bit as good as the first.
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InFamous: Second Son review

Sucker Punch returns to the Infamous franchise with Infamous: Second Son, a PlayStation 4 exclusive. The game offers a new world, a new character, and a new story, but the core identity remains.
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MLB 14: The Show review

SCE San Diego Studio is back with this year’s model of The Show, which offers only a handful of new tricks, but retains everything that made the franchise the dominant baseball sim around.
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Supreme Court rejects California ban on violent video games

In the case of Brown v. the Entertainment Merchants Association, the Supreme Court has ruled that the law violated the First Amendment rights of the video game industry.

Verizon Plans 3D TV Packages For the Holidays

Verizon plans to upgrade its FiOS system in order to sell 3D TV packages before the end of the year.

Midwestern Band Dr. Pants Films Video Using Only the iPhone 4

The video “Sarsaparilla Girl” by Dr. Pants, was filmed using just an iPhone 4, and is among the first in a batch of music videos using just the Apple iPhone.

Major iPad Security Breach Exposes 114,000 Users’ Personal Data

More than 100K personal accounts have been hacked exposing iPad owners personal data.

Microsoft Kinect Suffers from ‘Very Low’ Pre-Orders

One retailer claims the Kinect's $150 price tag has thrown cold water on pre-orders, but high manufacturing costs may not give Microsoft much room to budge.

Adidas Releases Star Wars Cantina Video

Adidas has released a new viral video to celebrate the World Cup.

Google’s Chrome Continues to Gain Market Share

Google Chrome Web browser continues to outpace rivals Firefox and Opera, forcing Microsoft’s IE8 below 60 percent of the market.

Call of Duty: Black Ops still outpacing Modern Warfare 2 on pre-orders

GameStop has announced that Black Ops is ahead of the pace set for pre-orders by its record-setting predecessor.

Digital Trends’ Top 5 Viral Videos of the Week, September 17, 2010

Once more we return with our favorite viral videos of the week. This week: Justin Bieber is an idiot, D-O-double G plays Halo, and why you don’t celebrate in sports during a play.

Infinity Ward hates cheaters too, imposes 13 year ban on undesirables

If Infinity Ward catches you cheating, boosting, or doing anything against the rules in Modern Warfare 3, you could face a 5,000 day ban.

Win an Uncharted 3 multiplayer beta code! (Update: More giveaway codes!)

We have more Uncharted 3 multiplayer beta codes to give away! The next 200 people to comment will receive Uncharted 3 beta codes!

Foxconn wage hikes will increase costs

Following the suicides that led the Chinese manufacturing plant Foxconn increasing its wages, Foxconn will raise its costs to make up the difference.

SOCOM 4 DLC reintroduces Demolition in DLC, more content on the way

Sony and Zipper Interactive have released a new DLC for SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs, featuring new characters, weapons, four new maps and one of the most popular game modes from the series’ past: Demolition. And more DLC is on the way.

Nathan Drake heads to the PSN with Uncharted 3: Fortune Hunter

Sony has announced that Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception will feature Total Game Integration, via the PSN game, Uncharted 3: Fortune Hunters.

Four new Gran Turismo 5 DLCs confirmed for October 18

Sony and Polyphony Digital have released details four new DLC packs for Gran Turismo 5 that can be purchased separately or as one on October 18. The Spec 2.0 Update has also gone live today.

Jason Statham rocks Clive Owen like a hurricane in this new Killer Elite trailer

Jason Statham, Clive Owen and Robert De Niro star in Killer Elite, a movie about an elite hit squad supposedly based on real events.

Behold! The dumbest video game controversy yet: Portal 2 hates orphans!

After a single joke in Portal 2 mildly upset one man, a North Carolina news station decided to try to increase the controversy and label the game as “insensitive”. Allow us to retort.

Batman: Arkham City shows off Catwoman in action

Rocksteady Games have released the first trailer with a look at Catwoman as a playable character in the upcoming Batman: Arkham City

The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn trailer debuts

Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson team up to bring the first film in a planned trilogy based on the classic comic book character of Tintin.

The Hobbit News: All the dwarves in costume, and Peter Jackson’s video blogs

If you wish to remain absolutely pure and unsullied for The Hobbit, like a kid that knows where the presents are hidden but refuses to peek so they can be surprised on Christmas morning, then turn away now. In fact, you may actually want to just turn off your computer and never again connect to […]

The Beaver Review

Mel Gibson returns to the screen with the help of director and actor Jodie Foster in The Beaver, a movie that begins as a lighthearted family film, then quickly becomes deeply disturbing and badly paced.

Conan the Barbarian remake releases first full trailer

Trailer: Conan the Barbarian returns later this summer in 3D, and Lionsgate has released the first full length trailer to prove it.

What we learned from the new ‘Amazing Spider-Man 2’ trailer

Sony released a new full trailer for ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2.’ It highlights the story, but also gives us a few hints towards the movie, and offers a few peaks at the possible future of the franchise.

Captain America throws new trailer and poster at the world

A new trailer for the upcoming Captain America: The First Avenger has been released, along with a new poster for good measure.

Immortals unleashes a second trailer

Taking a page from the book of the movie 300, The upcoming action flick, Immortals will recreate the world of Ancient Greece, in all its CGI-enhanced glory. Immortals stars Henry Cavill, the man set to don the iconic tights of Superman next year in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel. But before he becomes faster than a […]
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Taking your first steps on the road to good or evil with Infamous: Second Son

Infamous: Second Son is out now, and it’s a very big game. We have a few tips on how to get started and maximize your time in Seattle.