Carly Smith Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

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Independent Games Festival Shows More Student Participation

IGF 2014 received over 1,000 entries, almost 350 of which came from students. The number of entries to the main competition and student ...

By Carly Smith Legacy AuthorNovember 12, 2013

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Amazon Becomes Alternate Venue for PSN Purchases

You can also receive a $5 promotional credit for the Amazon PlayStation Network store when purchasing select titles from the storefront. Amazon has ...

By Carly Smith Legacy AuthorNovember 12, 2013

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Xbox One Launch Games’ Install Sizes Revealed

Image Source: NeoGAF The sizes vary greatly from 246 MB to 43 GB. Xbox One comes with 500 GB available on the hard ...

By Carly Smith Legacy AuthorNovember 11, 2013

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Square Enix: Players Don’t Like “Games as a Service”

Square Enix has become more focused since its overhaul of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. The “games as a service” model is ...

By Carly Smith Legacy AuthorNovember 11, 2013

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DayZ Standalone Still Delayed Due to Bugs and Optimization

The standalone version of DayZ keeps being delayed for more bugfixing to the game. Project lead for DayZ standalone version, Dan Hall answered ...

By Carly Smith Legacy AuthorNovember 11, 2013

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Amazon and Target Offer Buy Two, Get One Deals on Games

Amazon’s offer applies to PS4 games while Target’s offer applies to games across platforms. Companies are aware of the hard-to-resist power of sales. ...

By Carly Smith Legacy AuthorNovember 11, 2013

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Xbox One 12-Minute Demo Shows Swift Dashboard

An extensive demo of the Xbox One, its dashboard, apps, and Kinect demonstrates responsive user interface. Microsoft’s videos of the Xbox One have ...

By Carly Smith Legacy AuthorNovember 8, 2013

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PS4 Boxes in US and Canada Will Have Promo Vouchers

Image Source: PlayStation For a limited time, every PS4 box in the US and Canada will include wallet credit for the PlayStation store ...

By Carly Smith Legacy AuthorNovember 8, 2013

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Xbox One Will Not Have Backwards Compatibility Via Cloud Streaming

Microsoft has experimented with the possibility of playing Xbox 360 games on the Xbox One via cloud streaming, but it will not roll ...

By Carly Smith Legacy AuthorNovember 8, 2013

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Skullgirls and Konami Split, Moving Ahead with Patches

The rocky relationship between Skullgirls publisher Autumn Games and co-publisher Konami has never been easy. Patches to the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions ...

By Carly Smith Legacy AuthorNovember 7, 2013

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Sony Engineering Director Leads a PS4 Teardown

There’s one week left until the PS4 launches, and now we finally get to see the innards of the PS4. It’s a careful ...

By Carly Smith Legacy AuthorNovember 7, 2013

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Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F Coming to PS Vita

Thanks to the success of the PS3 release and requests for a Vita version, Sega has decided to bring Project Diva F for ...

By Carly Smith Legacy AuthorNovember 7, 2013

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