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- August 31
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- City of Heroes shutting down by end of the year
- PAX Australia announced, PAX Prime 2013 extended
- Taken 2: Two new posters revealed
- First poster for Texas Chainsaw 3D
- New TV spot for The Master: watch now
- Breathe a sigh of relief: Splinter Cell Blacklist is actually a stealth game after all, as this explosion-free walkthrough reveals
- Joss Whedon talks Avengers deleted scenes
- BEAUTY & THE BEAST "The Beauty And The Beast Are In All Of Us"
- New ZombiU trailer has some exciting Doom-style surprises. And some zombie-shaped ones too
- Ethan Hawke confirms work has begun on Before Midnight
- Valve fan pitches Half-Life 3 to Valve, gets shut down. Totally worth it though
- Sponsored: Hitman Sniper Challenge Week 7 winners
- Bethesda admits Skyrim Dawnguard DLC might never get PS3 release date, due to potentially insurmountable technical issues. Yeah, that again
- Metal Gear Solid movie confirmed
- August 30
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- Medal of Honor: Warfighter trailer - SEAL Team 6 Combat Training Series: Episode 1
- Next-gen consoles coming in about a years time - EA boss
- Borderlands 2 DLC discounted 25% for those who commit to four-pack
- THE VAMPIRE DIARIES Could Stefan Go Off Elena?
- Ryan Gosling will make his directorial debut with How To Catch A Monster
- Michael Keaton to replace Hugh Laurie in RoboCop
- Sam Raimi talks The Possession
- Sony explains why so few PSOne classics are available for Vita on the US store
- American Horror Story: Asylum New Pics
- Halo 4 will be playable at MLG Fall Championship
- August 29
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- New Batman could make his bow as early as 2015
- First trailer for Ben Wheatley's Sightseers: watch now
- SWITCH How The Witches Cast Their Spells
- New images from Breaking Dawn Part 2 arrive
- Jerry Bruckheimer gives a production update on The Lone Ranger
- Marvel releases alternate opening to The Avengers: watch now
- Joss Whedon's Marvel Universe TV Series Revealed: It's SHIELD
- Dead or Alive 5: Check out the redesigned and more mature Kasumi (in a bikini)
- FrightFest 2012: The Possession first reaction
- August 28
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- World of Warcraft 5.0.4 patch hits, setting up for Mist of Pandaria
- Guild Wars 2 sells one million copies
- The Secret World sells only 200,000, Funcom moving to smaller-scale development
- Tom Hardy, Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire plan anti-poaching movie
- Simon Bird talks about the possibility of an Inbetweeners Movie sequel
- Black Ops 2 "Hardened" and "Care Package" special editions detailed by Activision
- "Project Hell" unveiled by Dead Island dev as next project
- THE CLONE WARS "It's Time For Some Characters To Pay The Piper"
- Jose Padilha finding RoboCop "hell" to make
- New trailer arrives for Taken 2: watch now
- European PS Vita owners get over 100 new (old) games. But America only gets to buy 9 of them?
- August 27
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- OnLive CEO Steve Perlman exits company after reformation
- Hawken to get Oculus Rift support at launch
- Borderlands coming to PS Plus users for free
- Going to PAX Prime Friday? Here's how you can enjoy a free lunch with us and Assassin's Creed III developers
- League of Legends top two teams disqualified at MLG for alleged collusion
- Battlefield 3: Armored Kill release date revealed
- Lollipop Chainsaw sells 700,000 worldwide
- Star Wars II and III getting 3D releases in 2013
- Teaser trailer for Hitchcock biopic The Girl: watch now
- Justice League could be directed by the Wachowskis
- ONCE UPON A TIME "I'm An Amalgamation Of Two Characters"
- FrightFest 2012: Sinister reaction
- FrightFest 2012: Maniac first reaction
- August 26
- August 25
- August 24
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- Halo 4 Forward Unto Dawn "Enlistment" trailer released
- Friday Link-A-Mania
- Nintendo reportedly controls 70% of the Japanese gaming market
- Billy Crystal spills details on Monsters University
- Happy Wars F2P brawler coming to XBLA, first trailer released
- FrightFest 2012: Grabbers first reaction
- RED DWARF "The Show Was At Its Funniest With An Audience"
- Jennifer Garner gets funny in Butter trailer: watch now
- Uncharted: Drakes Fortune being written by National Treasure scribes
- David Fincher steps away from Cleopatra
- Sponsored - Hitman: Sniper Challenge competition week 6 winners
- August 23
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- Angry Birds Space gets "Red Planet" update
- Psychonauts coming to PSN as PS2 classic
- Red Country Trailer
- Tim Burton's Frankenweenie to open the 2012 London Film Festival
- Infinity Blade engine used to create Obama vs Romney brawler
- I am Alive PC release announced by Ubisoft
- See Richard Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield in The Hobbit
- Indie Megabooth trailer shows off the 30+ indies of PAX 2012
- FRINGE "We Have The Opportunity To Finish The Story"
- Lost star Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje joins Thor: The Dark World
- Sam Claflin signs on to Hunger Games: Catching Fire
- First official images from Carrie reboot released
- Sony's adap of The Girl Who Played With Fire due in 2014
- August 22
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- Red Bull planning unique interactive StarCraft 2 tournament at PAX
- Plants vs Zombies creator may have been fired in PopCap layoffs
- Project Copernicus video gives a glimpse at the work-in-progress MMO
- Is Disney planning a Rocketeer reboot?
- Ubisoft says their piracy rates are at 95% on PC
- Wednesday Link-A-Mania
- Doctor Who Series 7 UK Premiere Date Revealed
- Lord of the Rings Online: Riders of Rohan expansion gets delayed
- ARROW "We Don't Treat It Like A Superhero Show"
- WHSmith Special Offer On New James Herbert Book
- Bobby Farrelly reveals plot details for Dumb And Dumber sequel
- Sam Raimi talks Evil Dead remake
- Transformers: Fall of Cybertron not available on PC in Australia
- August 21
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- War of the Roses pre-order info announced
- PopCap, THQ and Funcom hit with layoffs
- Ken Watanabe will star in Japanese remake of Unforgiven
- Kevin Costner in line to star in Jack Ryan reboot
- Spec-Ops: The Line will get free co-op in new update
- Tuesday Link-A-Mania
- The Avengers gag reel arrives and it's awesome: watch now
- Dust 514 big beta update goes live today, coming to PS Plus tomorrow
- Diablo 3 Paragon system will be implemented today
- MERLIN Series Five Won't Ape Game Of Thrones
- Jim Carrey in line to join Kick-Ass 2?
- Bruce Campbell talks The Evil Dead remake
- Dota 2 spectator client released on Steam
- August 20
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- Diablo 3 to get big end-game boost with Paragon system
- Win tickets to attend FrightFest 2012
- New red band trailer for The Man With The Iron Fists: watch now
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive gets epic launch trailer
- All-female version of The Expendables on the way
- Sports Champions 2 release date announced
- Plants vs Zombies 2 announced, release window revealed
- THE WALKING DEAD "David Morrissey Is Amazing"
- New on-set images from Mad Max: Fury Road
- James Gunn in line to direct Guardians Of The Galaxy
- Tony Scott dies after fatal bridge jump
- Final Fantasy XIV's Naoki Yoshida: "More people need to buy Vita" for a port to be worthwhile
- August 18
- August 17
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- OnLive denies reports that it will lay off entire staff soon -- Updated
- The Wolverine gets an official synopsis
- Sponsored: Hitman Sniper Challenge rewards top player with very exclusive Agent 47 print
- The Avengers 2 gets a release date
- John Goodman will play a bad guy in The Hangover 3
- Hideo Kojima expresses interest in Silent Hill. Here's how he could (very easily) make it better than it's been in a decade
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt talks Dark Knight Rises ending
- August 16
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- Dead Space 3 video introduces weapon crafting system
- Ghost Recon Online beta now open to the public
- War of the Roses goes into beta, first invites going out
- World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria opening cinematic revealed
- Forget "Will it run Crysis?" Say hello to "Will Crysis 3 melt my rig?", as devs hint at a properly meaty PC version this time
- Joe Carnahan talks Daredevil reboot
- First clip from new Toy Story short Partysaurus Rex: watch now
- Assassin's Creed III: Liberation gameplay footage makes jumping out of a tree and stabbing a bunch of dudes look easy
- August 15
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- Planetary Annihilation Kickstarter launched by SMNC dev Uber Entertainment
- Dragon Commander, Original Sin stolen from Gamescom booth, $5000 bounty posted
- Robert Pattinson joins Werner Herzogs Queen Of The Desert
- Asylum Of The Daleks - 15 Tantalising, Fairly Non-Spoilery Observations
- Terrifying new clip from The Possession: watch now
- Gamescom Day 1 Round-up - what impressed us most?
- StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm beta currently being prepped by Blizzard
- Universal to focus on Chris Hemsworth's Huntsman in Snow White sequel
- Killzone Mercenary for Vita announced at Sony presser, first trailer revealed
- RIP Harry Harrison, Creator Of The Stainless Steel Rat
- Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance release date confirmed for February 19 in North America
- Trailer for new PS3-exclusive Rain is as unique, beautiful and sad as a clinically depressed snowflake
- LittleBigPlanet dev's new game Tearaway is Vita exclusive and looks cute as a button. If you like quirky, you've got to see the trailer
- Fringe Season 5: Intriguing New Set Pictures
- First poster and synopsis for Arnie's The Last Stand
- Metal Gear Rising Gamescom trailer is identical to the E3 one until Raiden's new chainsaw-tailed robo-dog turns up with the release date
- August 14
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- First trailer for Seven Psychopaths: watch now
- Diablo III Starter Edition is now free
- Ken MacLeod Becomes University Writer In Residence
- Jake Gyllenhaal stars in red-band trailer for End Of Watch: watch now
- Assassin's Creed 3 Gamescom trailer shows off naval warfare
- Mel Gibson not interested in Lethal Weapon 5
- Lost Planet 3 new trailer revealed at Gamescom
- Remember Me gameplay demo makes Capcom's new IP look way more interesting
- Dead Space 3 release date and pre-order bonuses announced
- This new Star Wars 1313 trailer doesn't feel very... Star Wars-y (but that's no bad thing)
- New motion poster for The Tall Man
- Keanu Reeves talks Bill & Ted 3
- Capcom reveals Remember Me - first trailer confirms it is in no way Monster Hunter related
- Team Fortress 2 adding brand new cooperative mode
- August 13
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- Phil Davis Joins Being Human Cast
- Neo Geo Gold gets a release date and price
- Clint Eastwood in talks for Expendables 3
- LEGO Lord of the Rings trailer features LEGO decapitation
- Bill & Ted 3 has a director
- Pokemon world champion repeats title at 2012 tournament
- New image of Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Tomb
- Special effects artist Carlo Rambaldi has died aged 86
- New images of Chris Hemsworth in Rush
- The Bourne Legacy tops the US box office
- Uh-oh. Downloading New Super Mario Bros 2 from the 3DS UK eShop is 30% more expensive than buying a physical copy online
- Sponsored - Hitman: Sniper Challenge competition week 5 winners
- August 11
- August 10
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- Firefall to get "eSports toolkit" to foster interest in competitive scene
- Awesomenauts getting new character after first PC update
- First poster for Red Dawn remake
- Jet Set Radio HD release date and price announced
- Jeremy Renner not happy with Hawkeye's presentation
- Sleeping Dogs launch trailer asks "what makes a good man"
- Blizzard says Battle.net has been hacked
- Next-gen Kinect screen shown off by purported Durango seller
- First images from new Toy Story short
- David Duchovny is keen on another X-Files movie
- New banner and character posters for Skyfall
- DON'T PANIC! The Last Guardian is not dead. Sony speaks out to ease the pain
- Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Monopoly: The REAL Board This Time
- August 9
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- Bioshock Infinite's rumored multiplayer modes rumored to be cancelled
- Modern Warfare 3 Chaos Mode DLC debuted in new trailer
- Paul Darrow Writes Blake's 7 Novel
- Kevin Eastman talks Ninja Turtles reboot
- ALF movie on the way
- Dust 514 links to EVE Online in latest beta update
- Sony didn't renew Last Guardian trademark, listed as "abandoned"
- Doctor Who 50th Anniversary: Mark Gatiss To Write Early Years Drama
- Star Trek The Next Generation Season 1 Blu-ray Fault Alert
- Epic announces Impossible Studios, working on Infinity Blade: Dungeons
- First banner poster for Kick-Ass 2
- Ben Affleck to direct Justice League movie?
- ALF The Movie Is On Its Way
- August 8
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- Minecraft selling 17,000 copies per day on XBLA as Mojang profits double
- Hybrid pulled from Xbox Live Arcade amid troubling first day
- Dead or Alive 5 trailer calls the world's greatest fighters to action
- Guillermo Del Toro discusses superhero movies
- Microsoft denies they ever mentioned a new Xbox
- Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn second trailer released
- GRID 2 on 360/PS3 'not that far behind PC version' says Codemasters. And as for which console version is best...
- The Dark Knight Rises deleted scene explains Bane's backstory
- Secret Circle Star Spells Trouble For Vampire Diaries
- Joss Whedon will write and direct The Avengers 2
- Fallout 3 graphics mod makes slightly scruffy 2008 game-world look like a next-gen wondergame
- August 7
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- Sacred Citadel 2D brawler announced by Deep Silver, Sacred 3 coming 2013
- Day Z to become standalone product
- First official image of Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln
- The Great Gatsby pushed back to summer 2013
- Darksiders 2 "Know Death" trailer released on the eve of the apocalypse
- Joe Carnahan in line to direct Daredevil?
- Black Ops 2 multiplayer reveal trailer arrives
- LittleBigPlanet Karting 'Summer Sports' trailer and release date revealed
- Take Part In The Neal Asher Ultimate Reading Initiative And Win Prizes
- New poster for The Master
- Michael Kenneth Williams joins RoboCop
- Brand new Half-Life footage appears at last (by way of the amazing-looking Black Mesa Half-Life 1 remake)
- Join OXM UKs loot hunt, get a TV and signed copy of Borderlands 2
- Sponsored: Hitman Sniper Challenge Month 1 and Week 4 winners announced. Can you top the table in month 2?
- Guillermo Del Toro's inSANE cancelled by THQ
- Diablo 3 hero profiles are now live on Battle.net
- August 6
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- Notch wants Oculus Rift support for 0x10c and possibly Minecraft
- UK trailer for On The Road: watch now
- Next-gen Xbox finally confirmed by Microsoft
- Day Z officially passes one million total players
- Source 2 engine hints found deep within Source Filmmaker code
- Helpful recap trailer for Resident Evil: Retribution: watch now
- Tom Hardy says Lawless character was inspired by Come Dine With Me
- Marvel: War of Heroes card game coming to Android and iOS
- PlayStation Collections announced by Sony, God of War and Infamous coming first
- League of Legends dev investing heavily in competitive scene
- BLOG Short, Sweet And Free: The Hugo Short Story Shortlist
- Next-gen Prince of Persia reboot joining the shaven-headed muscle-man party? Supposed leaked screen says "Could be"
- Philip Seymour Hoffman talks Hunger Games sequel
- New banner for The Expendables 2
- Doctor Who Christmas Special: Richard E Grant To Guest Star
- August 5
- August 4
- August 3
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- BlazBlue hits 1.7 million worldwide sales
- Looper gets a moody new UK poster
- Tom Hiddleston and The Avengers lead the Total Film Hotlist Award winners
- Kristen Stewart lands lead role in Lie Down In Darkness
- Dishonored's stellar voice cast announced by Bethesda
- Supernatural Season 8 Will Reset The Mythology, Says New Showrunner
- Matthew McConaughey signs on to The Wolf Of Wall Street
- Syfy Finally Green Lights Bryan Fuller's High Moon Pilot
- Russell Crowe in talks to play Deschain in The Dark Tower
- Guardians Of The Galaxy movie gets a new writer
- 'The Race Returns' teaser site appears with a big '2' logo and a fancy car. Now what could that be?
- Win a trip to the USA with Hilton HHonors and The Bourne Legacy!
- August 2
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- Skyrim Dawnguard DLC arrives on PC
- Mass Effect 3 will be Wii U launch title, features full multiplayer
- Ghostbusters 3 to shoot in 2013
- Rise of the Triad remake confirmed at QuakeCon
- Karl Urban talks Dredd
- StarCraft 2 Arcade launches in latest patch
- Modern Warfare 3 final DLC packs revealed
- Christopher Eccleston set to join Thor: The Dark World
- Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel announced by EA
- X-Men: Days Of Future Past confirmed by Bryan Singer
- Prometheus sequel expected to land in 2014 or 2015
- August 1
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- Oculus "Rift" head-mounted virtual reality is the latest Kickstarter sensation
- Robert De Niro stars in new trailer for The Big Wedding
- Jessica Biel talks April O'Neil in Michael Bay's Ninja Turtles movie
- Warner Bros to adapt Beautiful Disaster
- San Andreas-based GTA site gets a sly update and new Twitter feed. Almost as if new GTA 5 info is coming soon...
- Resident Evil 6 lets you play as the zombies
- Left 4 Dead 2 on Xbox 360 gets first fan-made content. But why should console gamers have to pay when it's free on PC?
- Resident Evil 6 trailers shows off new Ada Wong campaign and Agent Hunt mode
- CW Says Battle Royale Plans So Far Are Just "A Phone Call"
- James Franco joins Jason Statham in Sylvester Stallones Homefront
- Hugh Jackman to make Orders To Kill with Lee Daniels
- See new images of Toby Jones as Alfred Hitchcock
- Sponsored: Hitman Sniper Challenge competition is now open to PC gamers as Month 2 begins
- Sponsored: Our Sleeping Dogs teaser site contains an exclusive, ultraviolent 'takedown' video. Can you find it?
