The TGN Blog

For quite some time now 2K Marin have been working on XCOM, a technically-not-even-in-name-only reboot of classic strategy series X-COM. This reboot, a squad-based shooter set in the 1950's with essentially no connection to the series beyond the "bad aliens are attacking" premise, has drawn a lot of flak from fans of the series, with many accusing 2K of tacking the X-Com name onto an unrelated game.
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When was the last time that you felt pure and genuine elation when you finished a game, or a particular part of a game? When was the last time that you saw an ending or credits screen and thought to yourself that you had finally bested a game and made a genuine achievement?
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You may have heard of the upcoming Playstation 3 game revealed a few days ago, The Last of Us. Since the teaser trailer on the 3^rd, the game has been officially announced as a new project from Uncharted developer, Naughty Dog.
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Nintendo have confirmed that the controversial analogue stick add-on for the 3DS will come bundled with Resident Evil Revelations when it launches on 27^th January next year.

The announcement sheds light on the game's increased price tag (set at $50 in the US), and also confirms the attachment's release in the UK under the name ‘Circle Pad Pro’.

The rather clunky-looking add-on, initally called the 3DS SlidePad in Japan, requires one AAA battery to function (thereby not impacting on the 3DS’s already shaky battery life) and has set our far-Eastern cousins back ¥1350 (about £11).
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If you're too young to remember the heyday of Britsoft in the 1980's then this isn't likely to make much sense to you (also, get off my lawn and stop playing that damn music so loud), but this should be big news for any Spectrum owners out there. Codemasters are teasing the return of Dizzy, the boxing-glove-wearing egg who was once one of the biggest icons of not just Codemasters but the British game industry as a whole.
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Back in February, Bethesda Games issued an unusual challenge in promotion of their upcoming game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Any child born on the game's release date of 11/11/11 and named "Dovahkiin" would win his parents every Zenimax/Bethesda game ever made - past, present and future. Skyrim day has now come and gone, and it turns out that one couple had their priorities straight; at 6:08 pm PST Megan and Eric Kellermeyer (creators of webcomic 56 Shards) completed the quest with the arrival of their son Dovahkiin Tom Kellermeyer.
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Yup, after years of languishing in development hell, a new official video for Ubisoft's 'I Am Alive' has today hit the internet.



The game was originally announced in 2008 as the follow-up to Assassin's Creed for the briefly internet-popular "OMG A GIRL WHO MAKES GAMES" Jade Raymond. With a debut trailer shown at E3 that year, the game was on course to be the next big Ubisoft title... until it vanished. Since then, there have been numerous stories, swapped developers, leaked pictures and videos, and occasional snippets of information, but today's trailer is the first real, concrete evidence that the game is well on the way to completion and release.
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In a frankly astonishing cock-up, last night ITV broadcast footage from ArmA II, labelling it as footage from an IRA video from 1988, showing them attacking British forces.

It was broadcast as part of their documentary 'Exposure: Gadaffi and the IRA'. It made claims that the deposed dictator had sold guns to the IRA back in the eighties, which they then used in their fight against the British. The clip shows balaclava-wearing soldiers opening fire with a huge gun, hitting an army helicopter, which then spirals out of the air. The narrator solemnly states that "With Gadaffi's heavy machine guns, it was possible to shoot down a helicopter, as the terrorist's own footage of 1988 shows."
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Hot on the heels of the announcement last week that GAME and Gamestation stores will be selling music and Blu-rays, comes the news that as of yesterday the outlets have started stocking PlayStation Network downloads and subscriptions.
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