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• Amazon offering 1 TB Xbox One with four free games for $400

  28-10-2015 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  If you're looking to pick up an Xbox One this fall, you can get your money's worth when it comes to games, courtesy of a special deal from Amazon. The online retailer is offering a free game with the purchase of an Xbox One, so if you buy Microsoft's 2015 holiday bundle, you can get a console plus four free games for $400. Buyers of the bundle (and indeed, buyers of any Xbox One console from Amazon) can choose any existing Xbox One title — no pre-orders — as their free game, exc
  
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• 21 million Amiibos sold so far

  28-10-2015 23:11
  Nintendo's toys-to-life gambit appears to be paying off, as the little plastic figurines have been flying off shelves....
  
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• PlayStation 4 install base 'well over 25 million'

  28-10-2015 22:27
  The PS4 is the dominant console this generation, with new numbers from a Sony exec pegging its sales at "well over 25 million" before the holiday season. ...
  
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• Agent 47 Visits Coastal Italy In Latest Hitman Location Shoot

  28-10-2015 21:40
  Up until now, all we’ve seen of IO Interactive’s upcoming Hitman is the Showstopper fashion show level in Paris. Today, we take a trip with Agent 47 to the fictional town of Sapienza in the south of Italy.
  The video below gives us a brief overview of the different locations we’ll be able to explore and use for our assassinations. The seaside villa, nearby ruins, and a church are just some of the venues available.
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• Designing Cryptark to let players dig their own grave

  28-10-2015 21:26
  Alien Trap art director Jesse McGibney explains how their roguelike Cryptark lets players choose greater risks for greater rewards, making them feel more complicit in their frequent failures....
  
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• Get a job: Loot Crate is looking to hire a Game Designer

  28-10-2015 21:20
  
  Loot Crate, the Los Angeles-based company that ships monthly boxes of tchotchkes to subscribers, is now looking to hire a game designer to lead its newly-established game development efforts. ...
  
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• Video: Analyzing the turning tide of indie game sales in 2015

  28-10-2015 21:06
  
  At GDC 2015 TinyBuild staffer and one-time Gamasutra editor Mike Rose breaks down sales data for indie games across various platforms to try and shed light on the state of the market now vs. in 2009....
  
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• U.S. government grants DMCA exemption for defunct video games

  28-10-2015 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Electronic Frontier Foundation and student crusader Kendra Alber have successfully petitioned the U.S. government for exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, giving gamers and educators the right to modify and revive single-player video games with non-functional authentication servers. The U.S. Library of Congress ruled that circumventing software protection in order to access single-player content in a game rendered inoperable by shuttered servers falls under “noninfringin
  
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• After a four-month suspension, Batman: Arkham Knight is back on Steam

  28-10-2015 20:38
  
  Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment republished Batman: Arkham Knight on Steam today after abruptly suspending sales of the PC version of the game this summer due to serious performance problems. ...
  
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• How Riot optimizes the League of Legends codebase

  28-10-2015 20:06
  There's an interesting rundown on Riot's techblog of how coders optimize the League of Legends codebase -- specifically, the particle system -- that game programmers may appreciate. ...
  
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• Writing a game engine from scratch

  28-10-2015 19:33
  "My goal is not to go into a lengthy 'Which engine should I use?' or 'Should I write an Engine?' debate here and will jump right into it."...
  
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• Don't Miss: Chaos Reborn creator argues for 'luck' in strategy game design

  28-10-2015 19:23
  X-COM creator Julian Gollop explains the advantages of random number generation in his latest outing, Chaos Reborn, which was Kickstarted and released out of Early Access this week....
  
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• Google caters to YouTubers with new Android gameplay recording tech

  28-10-2015 19:16
  
  Mobile game YouTubers get fresh tools to play with this week as Google rolls out support for Android users to record themselves playing games, then edit and post those videos to YouTube....
  
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• Xbox One Interview: "You've Never Seen a Holiday Lineup Like This Before"

  28-10-2015 19:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Q&A: We talk with Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg about why this year might be as big as 2007 and lots more.
  
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• Nintendo boosted by strong software sales as first-party titles continue to shine

  28-10-2015 18:46
  As well as letting us take a peek at its fluctuating profit margins, Nintendo's latest financials provided some insight as to how well the company's hardware and software has been selling of late. ...
  
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• The Ork Fleet Ravages The Galaxy In New Screenshots

  28-10-2015 18:33
  As hinted in the closing moments of the most recent gameplay trailer, Orks are coming to Battlefleet Gothic: Armada. You can admire these brutish creatures’ ships in some new screenshots.
  Ork’s travel the cosmos in slapped-together warships comprised of scrap metal, remnants of other ships, and, occasionally, asteroids. Their fleets won’t win any beauty contests, but their high durability and overwhelming firepower compensate for any visual drawbacks.  
  Battlestar Gothic:
  
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• Classic Postmortem: Trespasser: Jurassic Park

  28-10-2015 18:33
  An in-depth postmortem of this ahead-of-its-time FPS, released 17 years ago today. The ambitious action-adventure game has been cited as a source of inspiration by many indie game developers. ...
  
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• Action-packed PlayStation show: 'Uncharted 4,' 'Call of Duty,' and more

  28-10-2015 17:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Owners of "The Nathan Drake Collection" will be given access to an "Uncharted 4" multiplayer beta, with the full game launching March 2016. A trailer for November 6's "Call of Duty: Black Ops III" was directed at fans of the series' us-against-them Zombies mode.
  
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• The city and the RPG that never were

  28-10-2015 17:39
  Diary of a game that won't happen: "I have been mentioning a certain RPG on and off for the past 15 or so months and have been working on it for longer than that, but it apparently just wasn't meant to be."...
  
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• Xbox 360 free games will be backward compatible on Xbox One beginning in November

  28-10-2015 17:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Beginning in November, all Xbox 360 titles offered in the free Games With Gold service will be playable on Xbox One. On Xbox One, players get the indie puzzler Pneuma: Breath of Life (launched in February) all month and then the indie "multiplayer swords-and-silliness action game" Knight Squad from Nov. 16 to Dec. 15. Backward compatibility with Xbox 360 arrives on Nov. 12 alongside the console's new user interface.
  
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• David Cage On Detroit: Become Human – 'We Didn't Want To Do Sci-Fi'

  28-10-2015 17:28
  Heavy Rain developer Quantic Dream debuted its new PS4 title, Detroit: Become Human yesterday at Sony's Paris Games Week press conference – a resurrection of the Kara tech demo the studio made in 2011. A new video for the game featuring creator David Cage sheds some more light on the game and the developer's approach.
  In the video Cage discusses the reasoning behind choosing Detroit and the game's timeframe, the tech behind the title, and how it relates to the developer's previous story-
  
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• Xbox One vs. PS4: This holiday season is Microsoft’s best shot at beating Sony

  28-10-2015 17:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Remember back in 2012 when we were all talking about the death of the home video game console? Back when we said that mobile devices and cloud-based services would take over for archaic boxes under our televisions and the outdated discs we put inside of them? We were all very, very wrong. READ MORE: How Apple Music prevented Drake’s ‘Hotline Bling’ from becoming a No. 1 single Not only is the video game industry chugging along, but this generation has been full of fascinat
  
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• Making PixelJunk Shooter 'Ultimate' on PC: A tech retrospective

  28-10-2015 17:06
  "The rendering enhancements we made, and some of the major changes we made in the name of optimization, so that PixelJunk Shooter Ultimate would be accessible to the largest possible range of PC configurations."...
  
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• Sales are up but profits are down in latest Nintendo financials

  28-10-2015 16:57
  
  Nintendo has posted new financials for the six-month period ending September 30, and it's something of a mixed-bag for the Kyoto-based company....
  
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• Xbox One and Xbox 360 Free Games With Gold for November 2015

  28-10-2015 16:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Four free games coming to the platforms next month.
  
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• Report: Nintendo’s first mobile game to launch this year, Nintendo Directs returning

  28-10-2015 16:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nintendo will debut its first game designed for smartphones tomorrow, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. The company, which posted its second quarter earnings today, announced that it will discuss its inaugural mobile title as well as elaborate upon its financial report in a press conference tomorrow. Nintendo has kept largely quiet about the nature of its smartphone titles, but Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime shared with Polygon a few details of what to expect
  
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• Speed titles at PlayStation event: 'Driveclub Bikes,' 'Gran Turismo Sport,' and more

  28-10-2015 15:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Built on the hugely improved and now well-appreciated PS4 racing game "Driveclub," this two-wheeled spinoff was announced and made immediately available as a €15 PlayStation Store download. It's not the "Gran Turismo 7" that some had expected, but a glossy taster of things to come. Polyphony Digital's CEO Kazunori Yamauchi flew in to announce "Gran Turismo Sport" on stage in Paris, a game that is to enjoy the first fruits of a partnership with motorsport's governing body, the FIA.
  
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• Lara Croft Takes On Armed Soldiers In Second Woman Vs. Wild Video

  28-10-2015 14:00
  In Rise of the Tomb Raider, Lara once again finds herself in dire situations. While she can stealthily avoid encounters, there will come a time to fight.
  Last week, we got a glimpse of Lara’s struggle against nature in the first Woman vs. Wild video. Today we see how she can take on armed soldiers.
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  Of course she can march into the open unloading whatever weapon she’s carrying. However, use of stealth and items in the environment to create m
  
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• Xbox One Backwards Compatibility DLC Support Explained

  28-10-2015 13:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Microsoft explains how DLC will Xbox 360 DLC will work on Xbox One once the new update goes live.
  
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• PlayStation event: 'No Man's Sky,' 'Boundless,' 'WiLD,' 'Horizon Zero Dawn' explore possibilities

  28-10-2015 13:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Games of exploration featured prominently at PlayStation's Paris Games Week show, with a release date for ambitious "No Man's Sky" among highlights from the October 27 presentation. Riding a huge wave of anticipation ever since its December 2013 announcement, "No Man's Sky" has captured imaginations with its chance to cross a procedurally-generated galaxy in search of new planets, plants, animals and resources. PlayStation's Paris Games Week show brought with it a long-awaited release date of Ju
  
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• PS4 Racer Driveclub Runs at 60FPS in Prototype PlayStation VR Version

  28-10-2015 13:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It's actually 120fps when reprojection is factored in; dev hopeful the experiment can become a full game.
  
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• New Nintendo Direct Coming Before End of the Year

  28-10-2015 12:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  First briefing following the passing of Satoru Iwata to be held later this year.
  
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• Wii U Sells 1.19M in Past Six Months, Super Mario Maker "Vitalizes" the Platform

  28-10-2015 11:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Total global Wii U sales now stand at 10.73 million; Nintendo posts big increase for revenue for the latest period.
  
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• 'Destiny,' 'Minecraft,' Nintendo wish players a Happy Halloween

  28-10-2015 11:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sci-fi shooter "Destiny," block-building sandbox "Minecraft" and Japanese console giant Nintendo are sending seasonal greetings to their players in different ways. The sci-fi shooter's version of Halloween is called the Festival of the Lost, and is a two-week event that takes place up until November 9.
  
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• Nintendo sales jump on 3DS console demand, but net profit falls

  28-10-2015 10:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nintendo said on Wednesday its six-month sales jumped on upbeat demand for its 3DS handheld console and games for its Wii U system, but net profit tumbled. The Kyoto-based firm also benefited from strong demand for its "Amiibo" figurines, which feature characters from some of its videogames, and the Wii U shooting game 'Splatoon', which was released earlier this year, said Hideki Yasuda, an analyst at Ace Research Institute in Tokyo. A sharp decline in the yen has boosted the fortunes of major J
  
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• Nintendo reports quarterly profit as sales improve

  28-10-2015 09:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TOKYO (AP) — Nintendo Co. posted a 3.17 billion yen ($26.3 million) profit for the fiscal second quarter, buoyed by sales growth of portable video game machines and software titles.
  
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• Nintendo says sales jump on 3DS console demand, but net profit falls

  28-10-2015 09:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nintendo said on Wednesday its six-month sales jumped on upbeat demand for its 3DS handheld console and games for its Wii U system, but net profit tumbled.
  
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• Nintendo second-quarter profit dips, keeps outlook on smartphone plans

  28-10-2015 08:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Nintendo Co reported a weaker-than-expected operating profit for the July-September quarter but maintained its outlook for the full year, citing firm sales of Nintendo 3DS consoles and its planned entry into smartphone games. Nintendo's fiscal second-quarter operating profit fell slightly to 7.8 billion yen ($64.77 million) from 9.3 billion yen a year earlier. That compared with the average 9.3 billion yen estimate of 19 analysts, Thomson Reuters data showed. ...
  
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• 5 things you need to know from PlayStation's Paris conference

  28-10-2015 03:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ignore the completely different look, this is sounding a lot like LittleBigPlanet 4 with a grown up makeover. It has the same logic systems letting you 'program' the world but is focused much more on organic creation and gameplay. Media Molecule demoed sculpting with two Move controllers and said it had tried VR but was getting the main game finished before going near that. It'll get a beta early next year.The 'sport' means more of a focus on big growly cars and less pootling about tracks in fam
  
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• Minimap today: Xbox's huge update, tons of new PlayStation games, JJ talks about Luke

  28-10-2015 02:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Your daily audio tour through the world of video games, related technologies and pop culture favorites like comics, movies and TV.
  
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• Video game archivists celebrate new victory in preservation of abandoned games

  28-10-2015 01:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thanks to a new ruling from the U.S. Library of Congress, preserving and archiving some abandoned video games just got a little easier. In a document published by the Library's Registrar, new exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act have been announced that will allow players and preservationists to alter games with defunct online servers in order to make them playable once again. "Many modern video games — which may be played on a personal computer or a dedicated gamin
  
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