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• Nintendo is making amiibo of Final Fantasy's Cloud and Street Fighter's Ryu

  15-12-2015 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With the latest Super Smash Bros., Nintendo has been introducing plenty of characters from outside of Nintendo games: and some of them are getting amiibo of their very own. Today Nintendo announced that it's releasing NFC-enabled figures for new Smash Bros. characters including Final Fantasy VII's Cloud, Ryu from Street Fighter, and the just-announced Bayonetta. Also part of this latest wave of amiibo are Fire Emblem characters Roy and Corrin, along with the iconic NES robot ROB.
  
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• All "gamers" play video games, but not everyone who plays games is a gamer, study says

  15-12-2015 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A new study from the Pew Research Center suggests the connection between playing video games and identifying as a “gamer” are not as strongly related as you might think. According to the report on “Gaming and Gamers,” which explores how video games are perceived in and outside of the community, 49 percent of American adults play video games of some sort —console, PC, mobile, and “TV” games— but only 10 percent would describe themselves as
  
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• Crytek’s Upcoming VR Game The Climb Blends Eco-Tourism And Kinect Sports Rivals

  15-12-2015 21:29
  Crytek is working on an exclusive game for Oculus’ upcoming Rift virtual reality display. It’s not a first-person shooter or a deep epic adventure. It’s a game about climbing.
  Appropriately titled The Climb, Crytek hopes to take players to areas of the globe they might not otherwise be able to visit. While you’ll be able to use an Xbox One controller (there’s one bundled with every Rift), the trailer below seems to imply a better experience with Oculus’ upcom
  
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• US women as likely as men to play video games: study

  15-12-2015 16:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Despite widespread belief, women are just about as likely as men to have ever played video games, a Pew Research Center survey released Tuesday revealed. The Washington-based social research institute reported that 60 percent of those surveyed believed video game players were more likely to be men. A boom in "casual games" played on smartphones or tablets has broadened gaming demographics once seen as dominated by young men devoted to action titles.
  
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• See The Guns And Dinos Of The Original Turok In HD

  15-12-2015 01:45
  Night Dive Studios, the same studio behind the upcoming System Shock remake, is also behind an HD remaster of the first two N64 Turok games due out for PC on December 17. See the updated man vs. dino first-person shooter in action in this new trailer.
  Watch the trailer below to see Turok unleash his arsenal of weaponry, both ancient and futuristic, against cyborg raptors and a T-Rex with laser-guided artillery.
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