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The upstart has begun development on the Metroidvania title.

At this year's SXSW in Austin, TX, Austin-based start-up, Minicore Studios announced their latest endeavor, Laika Believes. The team has already begun work on the Metroidvania-inspired adventure for XBLA and PC, which features a cybernetic dog from outer space. The titular Laika can speak, is clad with silver metal armor, and armed to the teeth with some mysterious weaponry.

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Namco Bandai's Latest Takes the Series In A Slightly New Direction.

Many Tales fans feared that we would never see Tales of Graces on U.S. soil. It has been three years since the Japanese Wii release and two years since the release of the enhanced PS3 port, Tales of Graces f. Though it looked unlikely, Namco Bandai announced last year that we in the U.S. would officially be getting Tales of Graces f and that we would be getting the best possible version of the game. Tales of Graces f may not be on the radar of many gamers, but people interested in the JRPG genre should definitely look out for this.

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Wait...Blizzard made games besides WoW, Diablo, and StarCraft?

When talking about Blizzard Entertainment, it’s almost impossible to imagine the company before the creation of their core pillars of Warcraft, Starcraft, and Diablo. It’s even more difficult to think of the company making games for home consoles, but in the early 90s both of these unimaginable things were true. Under the original company name of Silicon & Synapse, the house that would be Blizzard produced The Lost Vikings—a beloved side-scrolling puzzle game that fell by the wayside for juggernauts like Warcraft.  We have some love for those quirky Vikings around here, so it was high time for them to get their very own MIA.

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The PlayStation Move exclusive will dazzle this spring.

Last year at E3, a PlayStation Move title called Sorcery was demoed at the Sony Press Conference. It showed impressive gameplay in which you use the Move controller to cast spells. Since that demonstration, not much has been revealed by about the title. Today however, G4 is reporting the title has been given a release date.

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This iteration in the Forza series will be a collaborative effort.

Turn 10 Studios announced today that Forza Horizon, the fifth installment in the Forza racing series, will be released this fall. The game will be a collaborative effort between Turn 10 Studios and the studio's development partner Playground Games, a new UK-based developer comprised of ex-employees of development teams at Codemasters, Bizarre Creations and more.

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