
This one goes out to all the griefers.

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on 17 May 2013, 5:21 pm

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on 17 May 2013, 5:23 pm

Trion Worlds, the studio behind cross-media MMO Defiance, has laid off an as-yet-unknown number of its employees.

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on 17 May 2013, 6:30 pm

Escapist News Now previews The Last of Us with Erick Pangilinan, art director at Naughty Dog.

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on 17 May 2013, 9:37 pm

The update drops all pretense of TF2 having been an FPS at some point in its life, and simply adds 57 new hats to the popular war-themed hat simulator.

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on 17 May 2013, 11:59 pm

After a long wait Game Gear fans can finally look forward to a new batch of ports heading to 3DS.

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on 18 May 2013, 4:34 am

Konami front-man Hideo Kojima stated on his blog that the game will be coming to the PC.

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on 18 May 2013, 7:10 am

Square Enix is working on a new version of Final Fantasy VIII that smooths out the graphical wrinkles of the PlayStation era.

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on 18 May 2013, 8:18 am

If you happened to be looking up at the moon on March 17, you may have been able to observe the brightest lunar impact ever recorded.

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on 18 May 2013, 9:00 am

Your weekly look at the most interesting science stories in the ever-expanding universe.
For more on the stories this week, you can read about Turtle Spies, Spacewalks, and Ancient Plagues.
To submit your favorite science stories or intro suggestions, send us an email here: GeekendUpdate@escapistmag.com

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on 19 May 2013, 8:20 am

Ubisoft Motion Picture's Assassin's Creed film will be hitting theaters May 22nd, 2015.

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on 17 May 2013, 7:52 am

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on 17 May 2013, 5:22 am

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on 17 May 2013, 4:41 am

The "direct-to-you" Nintendo event will feature games being released over spring and summer.

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on 17 May 2013, 4:51 am

Naughty Dog understands that we are all busy people, and don't have time to wait for a game to finish downloading before playing it.

Nintendo has sold more than 2.1 million physical and digital 3DS games to American consumers in Q1 2013.

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on 16 May 2013, 9:55 pm

Two years after promising an "unprecedented partnership" with Nintendo, EA has nothing in the works for the Wii U.

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on 16 May 2013, 4:30 pm

Speaking to Venture Beat, EA Senior Director of Corporate Communications, John Reseburg said, "We're discontinuing Online Pass. None of our new EA titles will include that feature."

Four members of Lulzsec in the U.K. have been sentenced for their role in attacks on Nintendo, Sony, Bethesda, the CIA and other companies and agencies.

Karl "Dammit Jim, I'm The Law, Not a Doctor" Urban says a sequel to last year's Dredd is "not off the agenda."

Didn't he become king of the previous world he saved? Things have really gone downhill since then apparently.

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on 16 May 2013, 2:06 pm

The outspoken creator of Twisted Metal and God of War will be an adviser for Pixelbionic's Autoduel.