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• Star Citizen Dev Being Sued By Crytek Over Breach Of Contract And Copyright Infringement

  13-12-2017 23:56 via gamespot.com
  
  German game developer and publisher Crytek is suing the developer of the ambitious PC space game Star Citizen over breach of contract and copyright infringement claims. Specifically, Crytek is suing Cloud Imperium Games on the claim that the the Star Citizen studio did not live up to the promises it made for using Crytek's CryEngine.According to the complaint filed December 12 (via PC Gamer), Crytek agreed to a below-market rate for Cloud Imperium to use CryEngine with the agreement being that C
  
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• Racial tension over Charlottesville allegedly sparked Omarosa's departure from Trump White House

  13-12-2017 23:55 via yahoo.com
  Omarosa Manigault-Newman has been an ally of President Donald Trump since her appearance on "The Apprentice" in 2004, but her role in his White House will now come to an end after her departure was announced on Wednesday morning.
  
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• Cancer-battling US Senator John McCain hospitalized

  13-12-2017 23:43 via yahoo.com
  US Senator John McCain, who is fighting an aggressive form of brain cancer, was in a military hospital Wednesday to treat "normal side effects" of his therapy, his office said.The 81-year-old former prisoner of war and 2008 Republican presidential nominee was diagnosed in July with a brain tumor known as a glioblastoma, after doctors found a blood clot over his left eye during a routine checkup.McCain underwent surgery at the time in his home state of Arizona, and has been treated with radiation
  
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• Shark Viciously Attacks Woman On Her Honeymoon

  13-12-2017 23:38 via yahoo.com
  Sarah Illig’s dream honeymoon in the Bahamas turned out to be a nightmare after she was bitten by a shark.
  
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• John Stamos Expecting First Child With Fiancée Caitlin McHugh At Age 54

  13-12-2017 23:35 via yahoo.com
  For years, fans have watched the actor take on dad duties for the kids of “Full House,” but now he’s expecting his first child with fiancée Caitlin McHugh.
  
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• Funeral held in San Antonio for slain San Marcos officer

  13-12-2017 23:35 via yahoo.com
  SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A Texas police officer who was fatally shot last week was a compassionate man who loved being a police officer and a father, mourners recalled Wednesday at his funeral.
  
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• NTSB investigates Delta plane that nearly landed on taxiway

  13-12-2017 23:25 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Delta Air Lines plane nearly landed on a taxiway that was occupied by another plane at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, federal accident investigators said Wednesday.
  
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• Metal Gear Survive Single-Player Campaign Focuses On Base-Building And Crafting

  13-12-2017 23:23 via gamespot.com
  
  Even though Hideo Kojima is no longer at Konami, the publisher is working on a new Metal Gear game. Metal Gear Survive is a spin-off from Metal Gear Solid V, and today, Konami revealed a lot more information about the title, including details about its single-player campaign.Although Metal Gear Survive is being positioned primarily as a cooperative, zombie-killing action game, it also has a full single-player mode. In a new video, game producer Yuji Korekado explained that the mode is based on M
  
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• Biden consoles daughter of ailing Arizona Sen. John McCain

  13-12-2017 23:23 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden sought to console the daughter of ailing Sen. John McCain after she began crying while discussing her father's battle with brain cancer on ABC's "The View."
  
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• PUBG On Xbox One Has Some Performance Issues

  13-12-2017 23:21 via gamespot.com
  
  PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is one of the Xbox One's biggest launches of the holiday season. But now that the game is out on the console, it turns out that it's a bit rough right now. Recently, Digital Foundry did an in-depth breakdown of the Xbox One and Xbox One X versions of the game, and it showed that they've got a long way to go before they're in line with the PC version.It's not exactly surprising that the game doesn't perform as well on the base Xbox One, since porting a PC-first game
  
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• Diablo-Style Game Titan Quest Coming To Switch, PS4, And Xbox One Next Year

  13-12-2017 23:21 via gamespot.com
  
  Nearly 12 years after it first released on PC, THQ Nordic's Diablo-like action-RPG Titan Quest is coming to home consoles. The publisher announced it is bringing Titan Quest to Nintendo Switch, PS4, and Xbox One in 2018, with a special addition available for the latter two platforms.Titan Quest will be released digitally and in stores for all of the aforementioned consoles. The standard release will cost $30 and includes both the base game and the Immortal Throne expansion. Additionally, PS4 and
  
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• Muslim leaders call on world to recognize East Jerusalem as Palestinian capital

  13-12-2017 23:17 via yahoo.com
  By Ali KucukgocmenISTANBUL (Reuters) - Muslim leaders on Wednesday condemned U.S. President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and called on the world to respond by recognizing East Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine.Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, who hosted the summit of more than 50 Muslim countries in Istanbul, said the U.S. move meant Washington had forfeited its role as broker in efforts to end Israeli-Palestinian conflict."From now on, it is out of the q
  
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• New On Netflix In January 2018: Batman, The Godfather, The Conjuring, And Much More

  13-12-2017 23:15 via gamespot.com
  
  A new year means a new selection of movies and TV shows arriving on Netflix. In January, a number of films, shows, and specials will debut on the streaming service, including several Netflix Originals.The most notable arrival is the Batman series of films. Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Forever, and Batman & Robin will all be available to stream on January 1. Additionally, Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins will also debut. They will be joined by all four movies in the Lethal Weapon series, N
  
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• Twitch Comes Out In Support Of Net Neutrality

  13-12-2017 23:11 via gamespot.com
  
  The FCC plans to vote tomorrow on a sweeping overhaul of internet regulations that would roll back protections for net neutrality. Today, Twitch became the latest of dozens of tech companies that have come out in opposition to the FCC's plans.Twitch's parent company Amazon has already expressed its support of net neutrality, but Twitch's own statement more specifically outlines the consequences to video streaming and the streamers who make their living on the platform."Net neutrality has played
  
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• Pennsylvania Governor: Women Can 'Make Their Own Health Care Decisions'

  13-12-2017 23:06 via yahoo.com
  Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) has reaffirmed his intention to veto a highly controversial bill passed by his state’s Republican-controlled legislature to restrict abortions after 20 weeks.
  
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• PUBG On Xbox One Doesn't Have A Free Trial And That's A Bummer

  13-12-2017 23:05 via gamespot.com
  
  When Microsoft announced its Early Access-style Game Preview program for Xbox One in 2015, the company said every game would have a free trial available. Considering Game Preview titles are unfinished, it was nice to hear Microsoft would allow you to try games that could have bugs and other unfortunate oddities without having to spend any money.The Game Preview program's biggest release to date--PUBG--came this week, but unfortunately, there is no free trial available. Microsoft's reasoning for
  
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• 2019 Ferrari 488GTO Spied Honing Its Superiority

  13-12-2017 23:00 via yahoo.com
  Maranello's rebuttal to the latest from Lamborghini and McLaren.
  
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• The Latest: McCain receiving treatment at Walter Reed

  13-12-2017 22:57 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Sen. John McCain (all times local):
  
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• Mother who 'blacked out' during baby's death gets 13 years

  13-12-2017 22:53 via yahoo.com
  BELFAST, Maine (AP) — A woman who drank multiple shots of liquor and smoked marijuana on the night of her infant son's death was ordered Wednesday to serve 13 years in prison.
  
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• US envoy Haley to present 'irrefutable evidence' on Iran

  13-12-2017 22:50 via yahoo.com
  US Ambassador Nikki Haley will present "irrefutable evidence" that Iran has tried to cover up violations of international obligations, the US mission said Wednesday.The United States and Saudi Arabia have accused Iran of supplying weapons to Yemen's Huthi rebels, who fired a missile intercepted near Riyadh airport on November 4.
  
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• Final Fantasy 15 Ignis DLC Out Now On PS4 And Xbox One

  13-12-2017 22:43 via gamespot.com
  
  The latest Final Fantasy XV DLC is out now on PS4 and Xbox One. Called Episode Ignis, it follows the story of Ignis as he attempts to protect Noctis. It includes a new companion, the opportunity to fight Noctis, and new music, as well.The core of Episode Ignis tasks players with taking control of Ignis as he tries to fight through Altissia to locate Noctis. It takes place at the same time as Chapter 9 in the main game, so it's probably worth finishing the base game first before tackling the DLC.
  
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• Goat Cheese And Roasted Garlic Beehive, The Best Appetizer Ever

  13-12-2017 22:36 via yahoo.com
  You know a dish is a hit when guests come back after the party to ask if there’s any left over.
  
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• Bannon's war against McConnell just lost its biggest battle

  13-12-2017 22:36 via yahoo.com
  In going all in on Roy Moore’s Senate campaign, Steve Bannon gambled and lost — big.  His insurgency against the Republican establishment now looks increasingly uncertain.  
  
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• PUBG On Xbox One Is Already Proving To Be Popular

  13-12-2017 22:34 via gamespot.com
  
  Playerunknown's Battlegrounds launched on Xbox One this week, and if early player figures are anything to go on, it looks like the console version is starting strong. Just a day after an unfinished version of the game launched in the Game Preview program on December 12, the Battle Royale-like shooter has attracted hundreds of thousands of players.The latest leaderboard data shows a log of more than 496,000 players. This figure may not be perfectly representative of the game's active playerbase,
  
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• Final Fantasy 14 Christmas Update Lets You Get A Flying Santa Bear

  13-12-2017 22:33 via gamespot.com
  
  Final Fantasy XIV's annual Christmas-themed event is nearly here. The Starlight Celebration kicks off later this week, but before then, Square Enix has detailed some of the holiday-themed items and rewards you can get during the limited-time event--including an adorable new mount.The Starlight Celebration event begins this Friday, December 15, at 12 AM PT / 3 AM ET and runs through the rest of the month. You'll need to be at least level 15 to participate in the event, and completing quests will
  
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• Video Shows Trump Supporters Saying 5-Year-Old Girl 'Looks Like' A Terrorist

  13-12-2017 22:32 via yahoo.com
  In a video that went viral on Twitter, people wearing American flag-themed clothing, including one wearing a shirt supporting President Donald Trump, can be seen laughing at a Palestinian-American family who attended a pro-Palestine rally in Los Angeles on Sunday.
  
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• Scientists to investigate if cigar-shaped asteroid could be an alien spacecraft

  13-12-2017 22:32 via yahoo.com
  A team of researchers, including Stephen Hawking, is investigating whether the first known object from outside the solar system contains the first sign of life beyond our planet.
  
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• Black Voters Just Sent a Strong Message to Democrats By Electing Doug Jones

  13-12-2017 22:30 via yahoo.com
  The Princeton University professor examines what the Alabama senate race between Roy Moore and Doug Jones means for America
  
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• Accused N.Y. bomber's family says attack 'our worst nightmare'

  13-12-2017 22:29 via yahoo.com
  Zulifikar Haider hoped his daughter would live the American dream when she married a fellow Bangladeshi living in the United States, but that dream turned into a nightmare when the family saw pictures of her husband wounded after allegedly trying to set off a bomb in a crowded New York commuter hub.Haider's family had been worried when his son-in-law, Akayed Ullah, 27, missed a regular call to his wife on Monday."Even in our worst nightmares, we could not have foreseen this," Haider, 62, told Re
  
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• Firefighters defend homes as huge California wildfire rages on

  13-12-2017 22:27 via yahoo.com
  Firefighters grappling with a wildfire that has burned out of control for 10 days on California's scenic coastline, destroying more than 700 homes, sought on Wednesday to defend homes from flames whipped by resurgent Santa Ana winds.The so-called Thomas Fire, already the state's fifth-largest wildland blaze on record, remained a threat to the communities of Santa Barbara, Carpinteria, Summerland and Montecito despite gains made by crews during a lull in the winds a day earlier."Very high fuel lo
  
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• Native American Activists Create Spoof Website To Call For Redskins Name Change

  13-12-2017 22:23 via yahoo.com
  For a few hours on Wednesday morning, a small group of Native American activists convinced the internet that Washington’s professional football franchise had finally decided to change its racist “Redskins” team name.
  
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• 8-year-old Imani McCray may have hung herself after seeing report of another girl's suicide

  13-12-2017 21:47 via yahoo.com
  An 8-year-old girl from New Jersey committed suicide over the weekend, and sources close to the investigation are reportedly saying she may have been inspired by a story she saw on social media.
  
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• Switch's First Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Update Arrives Next Week, Here's What It Does

  13-12-2017 21:46 via gamespot.com
  
  A patch is coming to Nintendo Switch's open-world RPG, Xenoblade Chronicles 2. This marks the first update for the game since it released earlier this month, and along with a few bug fixes, it makes some welcome improvements to its map. Monolith Soft head Tetsuya Takahashi detailed the forthcoming changes in a post on Nintendo's website.The version 1.1.1 update rolls out for Xenoblade Chronicles 2 next Friday, December 22. It makes a handful of quality-of-life changes, most notably to the in-gam
  
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• Family of 5-year-old boy shot in Texas church massacre ask public to send him Christmas cards

  13-12-2017 21:45 via yahoo.com
  The family of a five-year-old boy who was injured last month in a bloody Texas church shooting is appealing to the public to help them bring a bit of holiday cheer to the boy this Christmas.Ryland Ward, who was shot five times in the First Baptist Church last month, is still in the hospital after the shooting.“You got so many nice people that are sending a card and a dollar to Ryland,” Sandy Ward, his grandmother, told local news.
  
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• Republicans double down on attacks on Mueller after anti-Trump texts

  13-12-2017 21:44 via yahoo.com
  Republican lawmakers doubled down on attacks against Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Wednesday, after new details emerged about anti-Trump text messages sent by an FBI agent who worked on the Russia investigation.
  
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• Rep. Speier on Alabama, North Korea and how Congress is not 'Animal House'

  13-12-2017 21:38 via yahoo.com
  Rep. Jackie Speier cautioned that Doug Jones’s shock defeat of Roy Moore is a “unique” result that may not apply to the 2018 midterms.
  
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• Putin must nudge Syria into U.N. peace deal, mediator says

  13-12-2017 21:29 via yahoo.com
  By Stephanie NebehayGENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura urged Russia on Wednesday to convince its ally the Syrian government of the need to clinch a peace deal to end the nearly seven-year-old war.De Mistura, speaking on Swiss television station RTS, saidfailure to make peace quickly through United Nations mediation could lead to "a fragmentation of Syria".
  
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• Star Wars: The Last Jedi Video Introduces Canto Bight And Crait

  13-12-2017 21:28 via gamespot.com
  
  With a new Star Wars movie ready to soar into theaters comes new planets for the franchise to explore. In the latest Star Wars: The Last Jedi featurette, director Rian Johnson and the movie's cast take fans behind the scenes of the film as they create new worlds."The first conversations you have are always about what makes something feel like Star Wars," Johnson says as the movie's massive sets are unveiled. John Boyega (Finn) admits, "It makes me feel like I'm on another planet."Searching out t
  
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• Resident Evil 7 Not A Hero, End Of Zoe DLC Out Now On PS4, Xbox One, And PC

  13-12-2017 21:26 via gamespot.com
  
  Resident Evil 7's definitive Gold Edition is now available for PS4, Xbox One, and PC, as are the game's final two DLC packs. Both the free Not a Hero and the premium End of Zoe expansions are out now on all platforms, wrapping up the acclaimed survival-horror game's story in a "shocking" way.The Not a Hero DLC takes place after Resident Evil 7's main campaign and places players in control of series veteran and fan favorite character Chris Redfield. The story sees Redfield on a mission to find Lu
  
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• New DC Comics Movie Slate Leaves Out Big Names: Where's Harley Quinn?

  13-12-2017 21:26 via gamespot.com
  
  In the aftermath of Justice League, is it possible Warner Bros. is changing gears with their DC film universe plans? The studio held a panel at Brazil's Comic Con Experience 2017 over the weekend, and showed off several films from their upcoming Slate. However, some major projects were missing from the list.As reported by Collider's Steven Weintraub, the reel Warner Bros. showed fans in attendance mentioned Aquaman, Wonder Woman 2, Suicide Squad 2, Batgirl, The Batman, Shazam, Flashpoint, Green
  
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• Disney's Purchase Of X-Men Studio Fox Might Happen This Week

  13-12-2017 21:25 via gamespot.com
  
  If the reports are correct, Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox, and with it the 20th Century Fox film studio, is well on its way to becoming a reality. In fact, it may happen as soon as Thursday.According to CNBC, Disney is the last company standing when it comes to groups bidding on purchasing Fox, after Comcast bowed out on Monday. The potential deal is said to be worth over $60 billion, which would see Disney take control of Fox's TV and film studios, and cable networks like FX, FXX, Na
  
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• The Punisher Lives: Netflix Renews Marvel Series For Season 2

  13-12-2017 21:24 via gamespot.com
  
  While not very surprising, it's good news all the same: The Punisher will return to Netflix. The streaming giant has renewed the Jon Bernthal-starring series for a second season.The news was announced on the show's official Twitter account, with a simple message reading, "Time to reload. [The Punisher] Season 2 is coming." The renewal follows the debut of Season 1, which released in November. The series follow Frank Castle (Bernthal), the gun-toting vigilante introduced in the second season of D
  
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• How Ridley Scott Did The "Impossible" And Replaced Kevin Spacey In His Movie In 9 Days

  13-12-2017 21:21 via gamespot.com
  
  When Star Trek: Discovery star Anthony Rapp accused Kevin Spacey of sexual misconduct, stemming from an incident when Rapp was 14, it sent a shockwave through Hollywood. Not only did Netflix sever ties with the actor, who starred on House of Cards, but director Ridley Scott revealed he was cutting Spacey out of his film All the Money in the World six weeks before release.The move was an unprecedented one that had never been attempted before. However, as the New York Times reports, once the decis
  
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• North Korean 'ghost ship' washes up on shores of Japan as problem grows

  13-12-2017 21:17 via yahoo.com
  A new unmanned ship from North Korea washed Japanese shores this week with at least one dead body.
  
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• Republican higher education bill clears first hurdle

  13-12-2017 21:01 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican bill that would eliminate key loan subsidies for college students and give a boost to for-profit colleges has passed the first major hurdle in the House of Representatives.
  
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• Free Ghost Recon: Wildlands DLC Lets You Hunt The Predator (Yes, From The Movies)

  13-12-2017 20:59 via gamespot.com
  
  Following an earlier tease, Ubisoft has officially announced that new content themed around Predator is headed to Ghost Recon: Wildlands. The Jungle Storm update coming this week will introduce new cosmetics and a class based on the classic film, but most significantly, it offers a limited-time mission where you square off against the Predator.Meant to celebrate the 30-year anniversary of the original Predator, which released back in 1987, the update will arrive for free on PS4, Xbox One, and PC
  
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• Recognise East Jerusalem as Palestinian capital: Islamic leaders

  13-12-2017 20:58 via yahoo.com
  Istanbul (AFP) - 'Islamic leaders on Wednesday urged world powers to recognise occupied East Jerusalem as the capital of the "State of Palestine", as Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas warned that the United States no longer had a role to play in the peace process.Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan convened an emergency summit of the world's main pan-Islamic body, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), in Istanbul, seeking a tough response to the recognition by US President Donald T
  
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• Controversial Judicial Nominee Brett Talley Withdraws Nomination

  13-12-2017 20:56 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump is giving up on trying to confirm one of his most controversial judicial nominees, Brett Talley, a White House spokeswoman confirmed Wednesday to HuffPost.
  
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• Metal Gear Survive Single-Player Campaign Detailed

  13-12-2017 20:46 via gamespot.com
  
  Even though Hideo Kojima is no longer at Konami, the publisher is working on a new Metal Gear game. Metal Gear Survive is a spin-off from Metal Gear Solid V, and today, Konami revealed a lot more information about the title, including details about its single-player campaign.Although Metal Gear Survive is being positioned primarily as a cooperative, zombie-killing action game, it also has a full single-player mode. In a new video, game producer Yuji Korekado explained that the mode is based on M
  
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• PUBG On Xbox One Doesn't Perform Nearly As Well As The PC Version

  13-12-2017 20:22 via gamespot.com
  
  PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is one of the Xbox One's biggest launches of the holiday season. But now that the game is out on the console, it turns out that it's a bit rough right now. Recently, Digital Foundry did an in-depth breakdown of the Xbox One and Xbox One X versions of the game, and it showed that they've got a long way to go before they're in line with the PC version.It's not exactly surprising that the game doesn't perform as well on the base Xbox One, since porting a PC-first game
  
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