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The undead curse continues to spread across the kingdom of Drangleic with DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin,...

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Scott Russell writes: "Paris is wonderful, artistic, grandiose, and many other flattering and applauding adjectives... However, video games seem to represent it in a scene of violence, grotesquery and downright dangerousness. With the recent release of Assassin's Creed Unity, this representation has grown as the titular hero, Arno, deals bloody justice in the midst of the French Revolution. In light of this, I have sought to examine the use of the city in various games, and illustrate how developers seem to paint it with a blood-splattered brush."

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With the recent release of Super Smash Bros. for both the Wii U and 3DS, Nintendo has seen a marked increase in hardware sales of the aforementioned consoles, not surprising due to the fact that Super Smash Bros. for the Wii U is currently the most successful Wii U launch title in Nintendos history selling nearly 500,000 copies (both physical and digital) within the first 3 days of its release. In fact, the Super Smash Bros. franchise is nearing 15 million total copies sold at the time of this writing. Yet, according to Nintendos executive president of sales and marketing executive, Scott Moffitt, Super Smash Bros. did not get to where it is today simply by the merits of its franchise, however impressive or numerous they may be, pointing to the role that eSports, livestreams, and Nintendo's pre-launch awareness tactics have played into Super Smash Bros. immense success.

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Bryan wonders if 'Tales from the Borderlands' lend itself well to Telltales way of storytelling, or does it get lost in the translation?

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Five Night’s at Freddy’s 2 is full of unpleasant things that fall in front of your face, unpleasant things that want to remove your face, and then just the plain unpleasant. Lots of unpleasant. Unpleasant all over the place. So it’s no wonder that, in your haste to find a nice corner of the room to rock back and forth in, you may be struggling to complete Scott Cawthon’s sequel to his first cul...

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GGG writes about how the study InfoScout released today, that indicated that the Xbox One outsold the PS4 on Black Friday, may not mean that the Xbox One will come out victorious for the entire month of November.

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The undead curse continues to spread across the kingdom of Drangleic with DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin,...

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oprainfall writes: Welcome to episode 12 of Total Control, oprainfalls official podcast. Recorded on Nov. 26, join Azario Lopez, Chris Strollings, Josh Speer, Justin Guillou, Scott MacDonald, and Tyler Lubben as they go over their impressions of the newly released Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and whether Amiibo is worth it or not. Also discussed are Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA F 2nd, Persona Q, Far Cry 4, and (its that time of the year again) Steam sales! Also, Josh Speer would like to thank the readers of Smashing Saturdays!