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The release of mod tools for Witcher 2 should be no surprise to anyone. The first Witcher was built on a modified version of BioWare’s Aurora Engine. CD Projekt RED and their parent company are both staunchly Anti-DRM and consider fan loyalty of utmost importance.

This week at Gamescom, CD Projekt RED announced their REDkit modding tool is heading into beta. The tools, according to studio head Adam Badowski, are “designed to create adventures that way – mature, non-linear and engrossing stories set in vivid worlds filled with believable characters.”

Check out the full article on TechnoBuffalo.

Hideo Kojima, the man behind Metal Gear, contemplated on Twitter yesterday the possibilities of a Silent Hill game running on the Fox Engine he’s debuting at the end of August.

Kojima’s first comment was pretty general, saying simply that Silent Hill running on the Fox Engine would be a scary game. Fun to think about, but hardly something for fans to get excited over.

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Everything is going to be okay. It might not seem like it at first, but everything will be okay.

The U.S.Patent and Trademark office filed a Notice of Abandonment yesterday to Sony Computer Entertainment America advising them of the trademark for The Last Guardian‘s return to public domain.

Sony didn’t abandon anything; at least, not actively. A notice of abandonment is something that arises through inaction. Because Sony hasn’t done anything with the trademark since they filed it in 2009, it is considered to no longer be in use. The likely scenario, which Sony likely won’t be too forthcoming on, is that someone at Sony forgot to renew the trademark before it expired.

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Remember that Xbox Durango devkit leak last week? The source of that leak, known only as SuperDaE, is back with more seemingly legitimate information.

The image above allegedly depicts Microsoft's folllow-up to the Kinect hardware, attached to a Durango devkit, in action. The adult and child-sized people in the image are in higher detail than current Kinect hardawre currently allows, clearly showing individual fingers and hands against the body without trouble.

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Blizzard Entertainment notified users today via their website that Blizzard's network was breached this week. The first question on everyone's mind is the one about the credit cards, and Blizzard addresses that right away:

At this time, we've found no evidence that financial information such as credit cards, billing addresses, or real names were compromised. Our investigation is ongoing, but so far nothing suggests that these pieces of information have been accessed.

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Sleeping Dogs releases in just less than a week, but new information is still popping up about the game. Square Enix and United Front Games announced yesterday some great news for players who prefer a computer chair to a couch and a monitor to a television.

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In an interview with EuroGamer, Grid developer Codemasters made good on last week's promise for an August 8 reveal of the sequel to their stylish racer. A mix of interesting new features and slightly concerning decisions came out of the meeting.

Grid 2 will feature point-to-point street races in a variety of locations, including California, Chicago, and Paris. It also features a multiplayer mode that is completely separate from the single player game, which EuroGamer says seems to be inspired by Call of Duty's multiplayer experience.

The more notable changes moving from Grid to Grid 2, though, are not the additions but the omissions.

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Just when you thought zombie games were dying, they rise again.

The popular Arma II mod, DayZ-arguably more popular than the game itself-is officially being developed as a standalone title.

The announcement was made by mod creator Deal Hall via the mod's Tumblr page. The game will be developed, with Hall as the lead, by Arma II developer Bohemia Interactive.

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If Deadlight is at all representative of the unavoidable zombie apocalypse, I'm not interested. Instead of just wetting myself and dying, I'm going to be stuck reliving the same frustrating puzzles over and over again. Deadlight is one of those games that "has lots of potential." The kind reviewers talk about regretfully, almost wistfully, wondering what it could've been.

Deadlight is the story of Randall Wayne's fight for survival against the "shadows" and his attempts to find his wife and daughter. Randall must fight his way past these shambling hordes and through puzzle after puzzle, jumping, shooting, and dying. The game is set in Seattle, 1986, and rendered, like Shadow Complex, in Unreal Engine 3 as a 2.5D platformer.

Check out the full review over at GamesAreEvil.

Is this screen the first evidence of a new Prince of Persia game? The image was originally posted on the official Prince of Persia forums and subsequently to NeoGAF this weekend.

The most obvious evidence is the "POP_ZERO_2 //pop02/" text at the bottom.

Also posted to the thread is a series of screenshots of a video that appear to show the same character standing in the foreground.

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