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In anticipation of the second game’s release, I finally went back and finished the first Kane and Lynch. It was far from perfect, but it had its good points and it was a promising start to a new franchise form the great guys behind the Hitman series. When Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days was announced, I was excited to see how the first game’s promising formula was improved. Now it’s time to put the series’ second installment to the test.

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Epic Vid of the Week is a weekly series that showcases an awesome video that we or our readers discover. Some you may have seen before and others you may have not. If you’ve discovered any videos that are worthy of an Epic Vid of the Week title, let us know!

Want to see a clothes dryer have an epic seizure? Simple, just throw a brick in it while it’s running (around 00:50 is where the fun starts).

As Steam’s Midweek Madness this week, they’ve discounted the indie multiplayer game Plain Sight by 80-percent. Without going into too much detail and wasting your valuable time, Plain Sight is a multiplayer game where — as a suicidal ninja robot — you battle other suicidal ninja robots…with katanas…in space. There’s also Team Fortress 2-style wearing of hats involved. Seriously, it’s $2 and you’ve got no reason to not own it. Alternatively, you can save even more cash by purchasing the four pack at $6 with a couple friends.

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The day was August 24th, 1995. Microsoft Windows 95 was released to the public. It changed the way we do…well…things. It’s pretty crazy to think that up until Vista, the layout really didn’t change much. That’s not a bad thing, really. There’s a lot of technology that hasn’t changed for quite some time. The workings of a CRT monitor have been roughly the same for about 100 years now.

Anyway, we salute you, Windows 95. You’re almost old enough to drive.

The Bargain Bin is a weekly feature that helps out gamers in the tough economy. How does it help? Once a week, it offers a great and cheap game ($10 or less) to keep you going until your next paycheck.

It’s no secret that we’re pretty big fans of indie games, especially if they’re brightly-colored and feature spaceships or the like. Plus, they gain bonus points for their ability to induce epileptic seizures. A new game that falls neatly into this category has just hit Steam and is looking fairly promising. Its 10% off launch-week discount doesn’t hurt either.

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I’ve been waiting for the day when big-name peripheral manufacturers would start making left-handed products for the few and the proud. Logitech was first with a left-handed version of the MX 610. Now, Razer is wanting in on the left-handed action with their new DeathAdder Left-Hand Edition. It’s not the first left-handed mouse, but the  company claims it’s the first left-handed gaming mouse. We’ll give it to ‘em. Myself being left handed (and using right-handed mice all my life), I wanted to check this thing out and see what ergonomic mayhem I was missing out on my whole life.

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It looks like all the anxious Linux gamers won’t be getting Steam anytime soon. Even though there was a slight possibly that Steam would be heading over to the open source OS, Valve’s VP of Marketing Doug Lombardi said in an interview with Gamesindustry.biz that “there’s no Linux version that we’re working on right now.”

So much for penguin power, but who knows, maybe it’ll come sooner or later. After all, Lombardi simply just mentioned, “right now.”

via [Download Squad]

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The past week’s best news and featured content…

Game Informer: Portal 2 Arriving February 9th, 2011
- Since its reveal at E3 this past June, all there was left to do was simply wait for a Portal 2 release date from Valve, but even that was a game in itself for some reason (we should have known). However, Game Informer, who wrote a 12-page cover story in their April 2010 issue, has reported that Valve told them at Gamescom that Portal 2 will be arriving February 9th, 2011.

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Valve released some tasty information on GameTrailers TV last night. Firstly being a teaser trailer for Portal 2‘s co-op (which you can view after the break) but, more interestingly, we got details of a new campaign coming to Left 4 Dead 1 and 2. Releasing October 5th, the new three-level campaign will be titled The Sacrifice and will focus on the events of the original survivors’ struggle just before the meet up with Left 4 Dead 2‘s survivors in the previous DLC campaign, The Passing. And of course, the DLC will come to PC gamers at no charge.

The content doesn’t end there! L4D2 will also be getting L4D1‘s No Mercy campaign and Valve will start releasing a massive 150-page online comic this September. The comic will tie up the two Left 4 Dead storylines and the events leading up to The Sacrifice.

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