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Power Up Gaming writes: "Another year is coming to a close and, as always, not everything has lived up to expectations. Over the last 12 months, games disappointed us by being too short, too buggy, or simply too ordinary to measure up to the hype. After waxing lyrical about the games that made our years, a few of the more cynical members of staff here at Power Up Gaming have decided to touch on some of the games that didnt even make our afternoons."

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Eurogamer : "Over the Christmas break, hacking group H4LT leaked the November 2014 Xbox One development tools, firmware and documentation, giving us a fascinating insight into the evolution of the console since its inception. The latest upgrades rolled out reveal that game-makers now have access to a seventh CPU core, as Microsoft continues to roll-back the background system reservation, giving more processing power to game-makers. Up until recently, both Xbox One and PlayStation 4 have reserved two entire CPU cores (out of eight available) in order to run the background operating system in parallel with games. Since October, Microsoft has allowed developers access to 50 to 80 per cent of a seventh processing core - which may partly explain why a small amount of multi-platform titles released during Q4 2014 may have possessed performance advantages over their PS4 counterparts in certain scenarios."

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Kat Bailey writes:"For the past couple years, the Vita has been my constant companion on the road, entertaining me with games like Spelunky, Dragon's Crown, and Final Fantasy Tactics. Over the past year though, that has changed. The Nintendo 3DS library has gotten stronger while the Vita library has remained stagnant, pushing me more and more toward Nintendo's handheld. It's been bad enough that I've actually given serious thought to leaving the Vita at home for my month long trip to Europe."

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OVERKILL kicks off the new year by giving Payday 2 players a free mask and a new weapon. Over the span of two days, the community will be receiving the Champ mask and an unspecified weapon. The Champ mask for Dallas represents the time he was beaten by a professional boxer and the mask reflects that with stitches and a bandage. More details on the weapon will be revealed later.

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Over the next ten days, Hardcore Gamer will be revealing its Best of 2014 Awards leading up to our Game of the Year. Today they present you with Best Developer, Most Disappointing, Worst Game and the highly-coveted Troy Baker Award. ( 3DS , Assassin's Creed Unity , Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare , PC , PS3 , PS4 , Troy Baker [...] Via Best of 2014 - Day Nine: Developer, Disappointing, Worst Game, Troy Baker

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Over the next ten days, Hardcore Gamer will be revealing its Best of 2014 Awards leading up to our Game of the Year. Today they present you with Best Developer, Most Disappointing, Worst Game and the highly-coveted Troy Baker Award.

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Marcus Estrada writes: "Without a doubt, The Untold History of Japanese Developers is packed with information. Over nearly 500 pages are devoted to interviews with a great many known (and unknown) names in the Japanese game industry. Even if you believe yourself to be pretty versed in knowledge of classic titles youll definitely learn something new. Many developers discuss things which were never revealed before, such as unreleased titles, or other little amusing anecdotes."