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Our improbably sexy new issue is now being flung at subscribers, game stocked on store shelves, and fired at you with a cannon of free postage if you buy it from our online shop cosplay. The cosplay is a mega-exclusive: the announcement and first details of Shogun 2: Total War, the next in everyone’s favourite wargame series.

As well as a six page game preview of that, we’ve got a huge feature on Deus Ex: Game cosplay Human Revolution, formerly Deus Ex 3. Tom got to see it in action in Montreal, and interview all the key people involved with it to find out if they really get Deus Ex. Incredibly, they do, and the gamer is looking far more exciting than any of us expected.

We’ve also got a feature on how to be good at every game, a game review of Obsidian’s spy vingamer RPG Alpha Protocol, and a face-off between Medal of Honor and Call of Duty: Black Ops. Buy it immediately.

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Vingamer : Vinagames Ranking, Vinagame Video

Kane & Lynch: Dog Days is a standard third person cosplay shooter with amazing art direction. For every gun blast, blocky artefacts pop up, vinagamer corrupting the screen like it was filmed on a cheap vinagame video camera. Light sources smear vertically, and the viewpoint lurches like the cameraman is running along behind the cosplayer. It’s brutal on the senses, but it’s startling enough to make me like the game more than I should.

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Vingamer : Vinagames Ranking, Vinagame Video

No developer has a bigger stake in what “DotA” (the highly popular Warcraft III mod, Defense of the Ancients) means today than Riot Games, the budding developer of the free-to-play DotA-esque arena game League of Legends. League of Legends has quietly developed into an enormous community, and it’s a game all PC gamers should at least try. So when the suprising news game out last week that Valve had submitted an application to trademark “DotA”, we sat down with two of the top dogs at Riot Games who were major forces in the DotA community before they signed up at Riot–Steve “Guinsoo” Feak and Steve “Pendragon” Mescon. If anyone has a right to claim the name “DotA”, it seems like it would be these guys, so we asked them what they thought of the recent announcement and what they plan to do about it.
Before teaming up with Riot, Guinsoo and Pendragon made a name for themselves by creating and operating DotA Allstars, by far the most popular version of DotA. Guinsoo, now Game Designer for League of Legends, designed and created the DotA Allstars map, while Pendragon, now Director of Community Relations for LoL, created the website to foster and grow the community around the map.

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