The Chivalry website reveals plans for Chivalry: Deadliest Warrior, an expansion or Chivalry - Medieval Warfare, Torn Banner's melee combat game (thanks DSOGaming). They promise an official announcement today, but this has not yet materialized, and for now they offer a teaser site with this trailer and this preliminary word:

We are very excited to be able to bring the news of our new expansion to our community first! Chivalry: Deadliest Warrior will bring the most iconic warriors from the ancient world, epic new environments and all new game modes to the already expansive Chivalry content.

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Here's a new video showing gameplay from the Apocalypse DLC for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, which launches tomorrow for the Xbox 360 edition of the military shooter sequel, and will come soon to Windows and PlayStation 3. Here's the pitch: "Call of Duty®: Black Ops II Apocalypse marks Treyarch's fourth and final DLC map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops II, capping-off the year with two all-new Multiplayer Maps, two re-imagined fan-favorite Multiplayer classics, and an alternate-reality Dieselpunk Zombies experience that transports players to the undead-infested trenches of a World War I battlefield." Continue here to read the full story.

This trailer offers a look at Avadon 2: The Corruption, the upcoming second chapter in Spiderweb Software's Avadon Trilogy of role-playing games. The clip shows combat and non-combat gameplay in the throwback game as well as the interface. Continue here to read the full story.

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BF4Central recaps the details they picked up at Gamescom about Battlefield 4, the upcoming military shooter sequel that's their site's main focus. Word is the game will launch with seven game modes and 10 multiplayer maps, and they note for comparison that Battlefield 3 launched with nine maps and five game modes. They also report that Battlefield 4 Commander mode will not be present in all game modes, and that it will only be used in objective based modes like Conquest, Rush, and Obliteration. Wrapping things up with some uncertainty, they point out that it has not yet been confirmed if all game modes will be playable on all maps.

A new trailer from Memoria offers a new look at this point-and-click adventure game in development for Windows and OS X at Daedalic Entertainment. The game is due on Friday, and here's word from the description of the clip: "Step into the fantastic world of Aventuria and follow two intertwined stories from different epochs. Five centuries have passed since Princess Sadja of the far realm of Fasar set forth to become the greatest hero of all time. But for reasons no one remembers, she failed. Her deeds forgotten, her name lost in the sands of time. Now it is on Geron, the young bird catcher, to unravel the secret of the vanished princess." Continue here to read the full story.

Last Jungle In Sector 17 - When Indie Dream turns into Indie Reality- aka our Kickstarter disaster.
Right after the launch we sent out emails to 65 gaming news sites and posted announcements to 68 forums and to our twitter, facebook, steam, youtube and indiedb channels. The response was rather cold, we got 1 reply from the press (greenlitgaming.com) and many forums actually banned us for advertising. After 26 hours, we had managed to get 284 video views and 7 backers (5 of them within first hours after launch).

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• Police: 8-year-old shoots, kills elderly caregiver after video game. Focuses on the games, not the guns.
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Winter is coming. "Farmers' Almanac" predicts a "bitterly cold" winter. Thanks brother19. And thanks Mother Nature. Thanks a whole lot.

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Play:	Eastward Quest. BNKR.
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Science:	Study explains how the brain remembers pleasure and its implications for addiction. Study provides strongest clues to date for causes of schizophrenia. Mercury levels in Pacific fish likely to rise in coming decades, study reports.
Images:	Digital Projector & 35mm Projector side by side. Thanks reddit.
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