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• Gamergate: Video game war over women spills into real life

  29-10-2015 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Questions of sexism and video game culture once again spilled off the screen and into real life this week. The popular South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas, abruptly canceled two panels that focused on online harassment in video games. Recommended: Video game trivia: How much do you know?
  
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• Everything you need to know about Nintendo's first mobile game (and Titanfall mobile, too)

  29-10-2015 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• Nintendo's first mobile game, Miitomo, isn't exactly a game

  29-10-2015 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  What did you expect, Mario on the iPhone? Meanwhile, Twitch creates a hub for artists, and the curious OnePlus X can only be bought by invitation.
  
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• Burning Crosses And Bible Verses Haunt This New Teaser Trailer

  29-10-2015 19:46
  The sequel to 2013’s house of survival horror, Outlast, finally has a release window. A new teaser trailer accompanying the announcement also promises to bring the unholy side of evil to the mix.The teaser trailer most prominently features a burning upside down cross slowly coming into view. Referred to as the Cross of St. Peter or Petrin Cross, the upside down cross is commonly regarded as an anti-authority or anti-Christian icon. The original Outlast had its fair share of religious icon
  
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• Xbox Live Gold subscribers get free backward compatible games in November

  29-10-2015 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Microsoft announced November’s downloadable freebies for Xbox Live Gold subscribers, revealing that the service’s first-ever batch of backward-compatible Xbox 360 games will be given away starting next month. The lineup effectively gives Xbox One owners access to four free games in total throughout November, doubling the platform’s previous monthly allotment. Related:  Xbox 360 backwards compatibility also supports DLC and multiplayer Starting on November 1st, Xbox Live Go
  
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• November's Xbox Games with Gold take a trip in time with backward compatibility

  29-10-2015 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Microsoft announced November’s downloadable freebies for Xbox Live Gold subscribers, revealing that the service’s first-ever batch of backward-compatible Xbox 360 games will be given away starting next month. The lineup effectively gives Xbox One owners access to four free games in total throughout November, doubling the platform’s previous monthly allotment. Related:  Xbox 360 backwards compatibility also supports DLC and multiplayer Starting on November 1st, Xbox Live Go
  
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• Learn The Ins And Outs The Simultaneous Turn System

  29-10-2015 19:34
  Trion Worlds has unveiled a new video for Atlas Reactor, its upcoming team-based tactics game. In it, Trion breaks down the various phases of the game’s simultaneous turn system.Strategies showcased include predicting and evading incoming assaults, as well as how to counter such foresight. Team gameplay gets some spotlight, demonstrating the ways players can coordinate their turn phases to plan both offensive and defensive maneuvers. For more on how Atlas Reactor blends tun-based action w
  
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• First-party PlayStation Vita titles are still in development, Sony says

  29-10-2015 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The PlayStation Vita will continue to receive first-party support, according to a VG 24/7 interview with Sony Computer Entertainment Europe's Jim Ryan. The SCEE president clarified to the website that Sony has content in the works for the beleaguered handheld. "We're no longer in the business of triple-A development of games for Vita," Ryan said.
  
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• Xbox One Exec Responds to PS4 Price Cut, Losing Call of Duty DLC Exclusivity

  29-10-2015 18:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "We know that games [are] what drive console sales," Aaron Greenberg says.
  
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• It's a Mii, Not Mario: Nintendo's First Phone Game Lets Us Down

  29-10-2015 17:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nintendo has taken the wraps off its first-ever mobile game, and, well… it's a Super Mushroom or two short of Super Mario Bros. The Japanese game maker's smartphone debut is Miitomo: a free-to-play social networking game slated to launch in March 2016. As its name suggests, Miitomo will allow you to create your own Mii avatars, just as you can on the Wii U or 3DS. This might not be the Mario endless runner or engrossing Zelda RPG you were waiting for, and it's unclear when we'll know abou
  
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• It's a Mii, Not Mario: Nintendo's First Phone Game Is Lame

  29-10-2015 17:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nintendo has taken the wraps off its first-ever mobile game, and, well… it's a Super Mushroom or two short of Super Mario Bros. The Japanese game maker's smartphone debut is Miitomo: a free-to-play social networking game slated to launch in March 2016. As its name suggests, Miitomo will allow you to create your own Mii avatars, just as you can on the Wii U or 3DS. This might not be the Mario endless runner or engrossing Zelda RPG you were waiting for, and it's unclear when we'll know abou
  
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• Nintendo says U.S. market makes up over 60% of all amiibo sales

  29-10-2015 17:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nintendo's amiibo line continues to be a major selling point for the company, with approximately 21 million units being shipped around the world since it launched in 2014, according to the company's semi-annual report. Nintendo stated that both the original Super Smash Bros. lineup and Super Mario 30th Anniversary Edition amiibo "performed especially well in the U.S." According to its latest sale figures, it confirmed that the U.S was a a major significant market, garnering over 6
  
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• Nintendo says US market makes up more than 60 percent of all amiibo sales

  29-10-2015 17:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nintendo's amiibo line continues to be a major selling point for the company, with approximately 21 million units being shipped around the world since it launched in 2014, according to the company's semi-annual report. Nintendo stated that both the original Super Smash Bros. lineup and Super Mario 30th Anniversary Edition amiibo "performed especially well in the U.S." According to its latest sales figures, it confirmed that the U.S was a a major significant market, garnering over
  
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• Nintendo’s first smartphone game, Miitomo, prods you into talking to people

  29-10-2015 15:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Months after announcing its partnership with mobile developer DeNA, Nintendo has finally revealed initial details about its first game for mobile phones: Miitomo . The project was revealed  by a group of Nintendo’s top executives during a recent investor strategy briefing in Tokyo (via The Wall Street Journal). Although ostensibly a game, the ludic components of Miitomo are not yet clear, as it seems to be more of a social communication app than anything else. Players will be represen
  
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• Nintendo reveals its first mobile game

  29-10-2015 15:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Months after announcing its partnership with mobile developer DeNA, Nintendo has finally revealed initial details about its first game for mobile phones: Miitomo . The project was revealed  by a group of Nintendo’s top executives during a recent investor strategy briefing in Tokyo (via The Wall Street Journal). Although ostensibly a game, the ludic components of Miitomo are not yet clear, as it seems to be more of a social communication app than anything else. Players will be represen
  
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• Square Enix Shows Off Platinum Games’ Nier: Automata Gameplay

  29-10-2015 15:23
  We haven’t heard much about Square Enix’s new Nier title since its announcement at E3, but Paris Games Week brings a nice surprise. A new trailer features Platinum’s high-flying gameplay and new details about the game.
  Nier: Automata stars an infantry android named 2B, who fights with both sword and gunfire from her “pod.” The story centers around an otherworldly invasion, as the attackers deploy machines of war around the world. 
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• After seeing Nintendo’s first smartphone game, I’ve lost all faith

  29-10-2015 14:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Where did it all go wrong? I spent years arguing that Nintendo would never sully itself with half-hearted attempts to infiltrate the mobile gaming ecosystem, but earlier this year, I was proven wrong when former CEO Satoru Iwata revealed that the company was partnering with games publisher DeNA to bring its popular IP to smartphones and tablets. READ MORE: Now we know why movie theaters were so terrified of the first Netflix feature film Admittedly, I was skeptical, but when I began to
  
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• New Nintendo accounts will support cloud saves, Facebook, Twitter sign-in

  29-10-2015 14:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nintendo plans to introduce a new global account system meant to tie-together a player's experiences on mobile, PC, 3DS, Wii U, the upcoming NX platform and even theme parks, recently promoted Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima said this morning during a briefing. The new Nintendo Account will allow players to log in with a Facebook, Google or Twitter account, as well as with a traditional email address and password or even the Nintendo Network ID currently being used on the company's platform
  
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• Club Nintendo is dead, long live new rewards program My Nintendo

  29-10-2015 14:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nintendo shuttered its Club Nintendo program earlier this year, but the company has crafted something of a successor with My Nintendo, a new rewards program that will also offer gifts and discounts for buying games but, unlike its predecessor, will also reward playtime. The program was unveiled by Nintendo during its semi-annual financial results briefing. My Nintendo will award players with points for purchases made on both Nintendo platforms and purchases of Nintendo's forthcoming mobile
  
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• Xbox One Kinect Standalone Price Cut Announced

  29-10-2015 14:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Microsoft now selling the camera for $50 less, while Kinect bundle gets $100 price cut.
  
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• Hitman's new location is looking very 'Silent Assassin' (This is a good thing)

  29-10-2015 12:57 via gamesradar.com
  
  Villa Borghese was the opening level in Hitman Silent Assassin. The new location seems like a clear homage with its shape, colour and pool.This wide view of the original villa shows the full playable area. The new Hitman's villa is in the middle of an entire Italian town.In a nod to modern tastes the old pool seemed to have been updated to a swanky infinity pool in the new game. It's still just as drowny though.
  
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• Nintendo's first mobile game Miitomo to drop March 2016

  29-10-2015 10:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nintendo has released new details on the first of five smartphone apps that will be released next year, starting with Miitomo, which pundits are describing as a mobile version of Tomodachi Life. Set to be released in March 2016, Nintendo's first smartphone game will build on Mii avatars, allowing users to design their online personas and communicate with fellow players or Miis in real time.
  
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• PlayStation 4 sales help Sony swing to Q2 operating profit

  29-10-2015 08:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Makiko Yamazaki TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp swung to a second-quarter operating profit as strong PlayStation 4 videogame sales helped to offset a fall in smartphone sales and keep the company on a recovery track after years of decline in its consumer electronics business. Sony said on Thursday its July-September operating profit came to 88 billion yen ($729 million), its best second-quarter operating profit in eight years. The profit was also a touch above the 87.3 billion yen average estimat
  
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• Nintendo shares plunge on smartphone game delay

  29-10-2015 07:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Shares in Japanese videogame giant Nintendo plunged as much as 10 percent Thursday morning, weighing on the Tokyo market, after saying it would delay the rollout of a smartphone game seen as crucial to its future. The Kyoto-based firm's new president Tatsumi Kimishima said it needed more time to "boost the quality" of its first smartphone offering, called Miitomo, and would not launch it until March -- after initially aiming for the end of this year. Soon after the announcement Nintendo's stock
  
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• Is it Miitomo you're looking for? Nintendo unveils its first smartphone game

  29-10-2015 04:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Japanese video game giant behind Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda makes its first foray into smartphone gaming.
  
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• Nintendo delays launch of smartphone videogame, shares plunge

  29-10-2015 04:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ritsuko Ando TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Nintendo Co on Thursday pushed back the much-awaited launch of its videogame service for smartphones by a few months to March 2016, disappointing gaming fans as well as investors who drove its shares down by more than 10 percent. Under a strategy announced by its previous chief executive, who died of cancer earlier this year, Nintendo had said it would introduce its first smartphone games by the end of 2015. Chief Executive Tatsumi Kimishima, a former ba
  
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• Nintendo's Smartphone Game Delay, Reward Progam Details, and Unannounced Games

  29-10-2015 03:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nintendo unveils plans for the mobile market and discusses 2015 holiday plans for Wii U and 3DS.
  
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• Nintendo announces first smartphone title Miitomo, delays launch to 2016

  29-10-2015 02:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nintendo's first foray into making games for smartphones and other mobile devices won't happen this year, Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima announced at an investor briefing in Tokyo today. The first mobile app from Nintendo is called Miitomo. It will be free-to-play with paid add-ons, Kimishima reportedly said, while other Nintendo mobile games will be paid apps.
  
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• PlayStation's French connection, free Xbox and Batman games, Nintendo going mobile soon

  29-10-2015 01:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• Grab an Xbox One bundle with a free controller, get Halo 5 for $10

  29-10-2015 01:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  If you're in the market for an Xbox One, Walmart has an attractive deal available. The retailer is offering you a choice of an Xbox One bundle, like the black or white 500 GB Gears of War special edition set and the 1 TB Halo 5: Guardians limited edition console, and throwing in a free wireless controller. You can pick up a game for free, too — choices include Madden NFL 16 and the Legendary Edition of Destiny: The Taken King — or you can spend an extra $10 to grab Halo 5: Guard
  
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