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• Taking Back Philly In Homefront: The Revolution's Co-Op Multiplayer

  26-01-2016 23:23
  
  If you're a developer looking for a way to make tried-and-true shooter gameplay feel fresh, a healthy injection of tension and a sense of danger can go a long way. Even in its early, pre-beta state, Homefront: The Revolution’s four player co-op mode is successfully doing just that in subtle ways, while maintaining the basic shooter appeal of aiming down-sight and snapping off a few shots.It starts by properly leveraging Homefront’s main plot point: that America has been occupied by a
  
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• EA walks a fine line between paid and free Battlefront DLC

  26-01-2016 23:04
  
  EA DICE today laid out a plan for its post-release Star Wars Battlefront content that seems to strike a careful balance between paid and free DLC....
  
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• Payday Creator Working on New Co-Op FPS

  26-01-2016 23:02
  
  Ulf Andersson, co-founder of Overkill Software and co-creator of PayDay, is working on a new co-op first-person shooter with his new studio, 10 Chambers Collective.
  Although details on the new game are scarce, according to Rock Paper Shotgun, Andersson said players will be able to use force, stealth, or "any other creative way in order to survive whatever horrors they encounter." What those horrors are remain to be seen, but if you visit the developer's Facebook page, you'll
  
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• Insomniac Teases New Game Announcement

  26-01-2016 22:59
  
  Insomniac Games has cryptically teased their next game, with the promise of more information this month.
  The news comes from a video on the developer's official YouTube channel. A rather tranquil scan of undersea ruins ends with the invitation to "dive deeper." Beneath the message is a date (January 28) and a time (8:30 a.m. CT).
  Beyond this mystery project, we know Insomniac is working on a reboot of its flagship series Ratchet and Clank, and the virtual reality game Edge of Nowhere.
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• MMO Shooter Warhammer 40K: Eternal Crusade Launches This Year, PC Early Access Now

  26-01-2016 22:48
  Way back at E3 2013, Behaviour Interactive revealed a Warhammer 40,000 game called Eternal Crusade. Since then, there’s been precious little information about the title. But much like the Emperor of Man, it is not dead.
  Bandai Namco has announced that it will be publishing the title, which is due later this year. Eternal Crusade is described as a massively multiplayer online third-person shooter (MMOTPS). 
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• Video: Creating fluid and powerful animations for Skullgirls

  26-01-2016 22:01
  
  During the GDC 2014 Animation Bootcamp Skullgirls lead animator Mariel Cartwright breaks down how you can create powerful, fluid 2D animations good enough to pass muster in a fast-paced fighting game. ...
  
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• Video Game Hall of Fame Asking Fans to Submit Nominations for This Year's Inductees

  26-01-2016 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Which games do you think should make the cut this year?
  
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• World Video Game Hall of Fame calls for fresh game nominations

  26-01-2016 21:34
  
  The Strong Museum's World Video Game Hall of Fame currently contains six games, and if you'd like to nominate a game to join their ranks this year you have 'til February 29th to do so via public form....
  
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• PlayStation Store Square Enix Sale Discounts a Ton of Great Games

  26-01-2016 21:26
  
  There's currently a Square Enix Sale on the PlayStation Store and it's headlined by some pretty great games for up to 75% off.
  Right now, you can pick up games like PSOne Classics Final Fantasy VI, Final Fantasy VII, and Final Fantasy VIII for $5 a piece, PS4 games Thief and Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition for $7.50 a pop, and Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition for $10.
  For a full list of the 32 games discounted in the Square Enix Sale, head on over to the PSN Store listing. The sale will la
  
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• Platinum's New TMNT Game Officially Revealed

  26-01-2016 21:09
  
  Update 2: Ahead of tomorrow's scheduled reveal, Activision and PlatinumGames have pulled back the curtain on the announcement trailer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan.
  The countdown timer that appeared on the game's official site earlier today has been replaced by the video. While the timer wasn't supposed to end until tomorrow morning, it appears the trailer's premature release was all part the studio's "official leak" announcement plan.
  TMNT: Mutants in Manhattan releases
  
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• Blog: Let's talk about Emily is Away and Cibele

  26-01-2016 20:59
  "Both Emily is Away and Cibele do some clever things with presentation to tell stories about handling relationships through the internet, and I love that. The internet enables very real and sometimes intimate relationships."...
  
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• Destiny's Matchmaking System is Changing Again

  26-01-2016 20:57
  
  Bungie is making changes to Destiny's matchmaking system. The company is reversing the changes it implemented quietly in December. The community has spoken—reducing lag is the important issue.
  Since the changes were made, players have been experiencing excessive lag in Player-versus-Player combat—a side effect of Bungie's tweaking. The goal was to "find the right balance between skill and connectivity," matching players with those who equally matched in skill, preventing newer and le
  
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• Rising from the ashes of a failed MOBA, game chat app Discord nets $20M

  26-01-2016 20:54
  
  The makers of cross-platform video game voice chat app Discord announced today that they've raised roughly $20 million from Greylock Partners, Tencent and other investors....
  
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• Don't Miss: Jonathan Blow on the making of The Witness

  26-01-2016 20:35
  
  In this wide-ranging interview, Jonathan Blow discusses his design philosophy on The Witness, as well as the enormous personal investment of time (and money) that he's made in his new game. ...
  
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• What I've learned by trying Reddit ads for my Steam Greenlight campaigns

  26-01-2016 20:31
  For me, Reddit ads have been utterly ineffective in promoting my Greenlight campaign. The question is; did the ads fail because they are ineffective in themselves or because my game doesn't have enough appeal?...
  
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• Sony moves PlayStation business to Silicon Valley

  26-01-2016 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sony on Monday announced it is moving its PlayStation business to Silicon Valley and consolidating its game console offerings under one roof. The Japanese entertainment and consumer electronics giant said that as of April, its PlayStation hardware, software and online businesses will be unified in a new company called Sony Interactive Entertainment. The freshly formed company will bring together Sony Computer Entertainment and Sony Network Entertainment International and be based in the northern
  
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• Detective Pikachu Announced Alongside Odd Video

  26-01-2016 20:21
  
  Nintendo has announced Detective Pikachu, and it’s coming to Japanese 3DSs on February 3.
  The newly-released trailer shows Pikachu in a detective hat going around a city, talking, and drinking coffee. There are some screenshots towards the end of the video, which shows the electric mouse hanging around with a boy in a red hoody.
  Called Meitantei Pikachu: Shin Konbi Tanjou (which roughly translates to Detective Pikachu: Birth of a New Team), Nintendo bills the game as a "cinematic adventure
  
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• Pokemon Fighting Game Wii U Controller Limitations Revealed

  26-01-2016 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Pokken Tournament controller comes with a caveat.
  
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• 'You've got to make something that you love' - Designing Dangerous Golf

  26-01-2016 19:56
  
  After leaving Criterion in 2014, cofounder Fiona Sperry chats about why she and cofounder Alex Ward's new studio Three Fields Entertainment's debut project is an irreverent, destructive golf game. ...
  
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• Day of the Devs comes to GDC 2016 alongside the return of iam8bit

  26-01-2016 19:04
  
  GDC 2016 organizers are happy to announce details of the Day of the Devs and iam8bit interactive spaces at the March conference. Spoiler: There's 12 games and a photo opp involved. ...
  
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• Getting to grips with Unity WebGL

  26-01-2016 19:03
  Unlocking the mysteries of Unity's WebGL support: "Because there's so little support out there so far and because I've made huge leaps in the last two weeks, I thought I'd write this up and share it."...
  
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• Star Wars Battlefront Season Pass Details Released

  26-01-2016 18:00
  
  EA has given out details of the Star Wars Battlefront season pass DLC, as well as outlining free content update for the game for the next several months.
  The first of 4 DLC packs for Star Wars Battlefront arrives in March. Called Outer Rim, the DLC will allow you to "fight among the factories of Sullust" as well as inside Jabba's palace on Tatooine.
  The next pack is scheduled for the second quarter of 2016 and will take place in the Cloud City of Bespin. The third-quarter 2016 DLC release w
  
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• Far Cry Primal Feels Like Where The Series Was Always Meant To Go

  26-01-2016 18:00
  When I played (and loved) Far Cry 3, it was in spite of some glaring flaws. I adored the open world, but the story was a gaping hole in the experience. Except for Vaas. Oh, Vaas.Far Cry's writing has always tended toward the summer blockbuster. The characters are often caricatures, wreaking havoc across the lush, far-flung locales for which the series is known. Despite menacing characters and perilous journeys, the franchise has never embraced its potential gravitas.
  Ubisoft has long envisioned
  
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• Becoming the Beast Master in Far Cry Primal

  26-01-2016 18:00
  
  Ever since Peter Molyneux’s exciting looking B.C. for original Xbox was canceled back in 2004, I’ve been looking for a game to fill the prehistoric void. Michel Ancel’s Wild looks like it might do the trick, but so too does Far Cry Primal -- and it’s out in just a few short weeks. I played the first three hours of the game and had an excellent time.
  To get the bad news out of the way first: yes, Far Cry Primal is set in the stone age, but no, it doesn’t feature dino
  
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• Former Burnout Devs Announce New Game

  26-01-2016 16:15
  
  Three Fields Entertainment has revealed its new game, Dangerous Golf. The former Burnout developers promise the new game will is as "serious a golf game as Burnout was a serious" racing simulation.
  In other words, it's a golf game with explosions.
  "Players aren’t striving for Par or aiming for Birdie," Three Fields explained on its site. Instead, players aim for "dollar damage as their high score."Continue reading…
  
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• Resident Evil Spin-Off Umbrella Corps Due In May, Modes Detailed

  26-01-2016 16:03
  While fans wait for the still unannounced Resident Evil 7, Capcom is working hard to keep the enormous franchise front of mind. HD remakes of Resident Evil and Resident Evil 0 have been keeping players busy. Resident Evil Revelations 2 has given them something new to enjoy.
  This May, the franchise will go in a direction that hasn’t been terribly kind to it in the past. Umbrella Corps takes cues from the imperfect Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City.
  While Umbrella Corps is designed as a
  
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• Pikachu is Sherlock in this new Nintendo 3DS game

  26-01-2016 14:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  2016 marks the 20th anniversary of the iconic franchise, and Nintendo and The Pokemon Company are celebrating in multiple ways, including a Super Bowl commercial, a Nintendo 3DS bundle, an augmented reality mobile game, and an arcade fighting game on Wii U. The game — which loosely translates to Great Detective Pikachu — stars everyone's favorite electric rat as a crime-solving gumshoe, complete with a deerstalker hat a la Sherlock Holmes.
  
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• Sony merges all things PlayStation into the new Sony Interactive Entertainment

  26-01-2016 14:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  For quite some time, both Sony Computer Entertainment and Sony Network Entertainment have created products branded with the PlayStation name. Now, in what Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) President and CEO Shawn Layden calls “an important new moment in PlayStation history,” the two companies are joining forces. The new company, announced today, will be called simply Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE), and will “serve as the headquarters for everything PlayStation.&r
  
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• Newly Announced Resistance Mode Beta Coming To Xbox One Next Month

  26-01-2016 14:00
  Developer Dambuster announced a new four-player-focused mode for Homefront: The Revolution, and revealed beta participants will be able to try it out next month on Xbox One.
  The new mode, titled Resistance Mode, tasks players with customizing and leveling up a group of four to take on the the KPA military in guerrilla warfare on the streets of occupied Philadelphia. You can check out the trailer below to see the new mode in action, and head here to learn more about signing up to play. The beta
  
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• New Co-Op Mode for Homefront: The Revolution Revealed

  26-01-2016 14:00
  
  New details about the Homefront: Revolution beta, as well as an online co-op mode and pre-order bonuses, have been revealed.
  The beta, which will only be on Xbox One, will run from February 11 through February 14, with additional stress tests being run on January 29 and February 5, again on Xbox One.
  Gamers who pre-order on any platform will receive the "Revolutionary Spirit", which gives "unique skins and instant unlocks of select weapons for the campaign." The pack includes a Red Skull motorbi
  
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• Here's When Homefront: The Revolution's Xbox One Closed Beta Begins

  26-01-2016 14:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Plus, get the first details on Resistance Mode and preorder bonuses.
  
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• Xbox One's Quantum Break Listed for PC Release

  26-01-2016 13:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brazilian classification board appears to have reviewed a Windows edition of the Xbox One "exclusive."
  
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• Bandai Namco Confirms One Piece: Burning Blood Release Date

  26-01-2016 13:19
  
  One Piece: Burning Blood will release in Europe on June 3, 2016.
  Although the North American date has yet to be pinned down to a specific day, publisher Bandai Namco has confirmed that it will be available sometime in June, too.
  According to Silconera, the game will be available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One in Europe, and on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One and PC in the States. It's the first time a One Piece game will be available on a Microsoft console.Continu
  
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• Capcom Confirms Umbrella Corps Release Window

  26-01-2016 12:53
  
  Capcom has confirmed Umbrella Corps will release in May 2016 in North America and Europe.
  The third-person shooter's digital-only release supports 1-6 player multiplayer across environments taken from existing Resident Evil games, with "the majority of modes geared towards competitive team battles". There will also be a single-player mode, The Experiment, offering 20+ missions. The game will also offer a "coliseum-style horde-like mode".
  Announced environments include the Village from
  
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• Sony merges PlayStation businesses into US-based Sony Interactive Entertainment

  26-01-2016 07:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sony has merged the entire PlayStation business into one new company called Sony Interactive Entertainment. As of April 1st, SIE's president and CEO will be Andrew House, and the business will be run out of San Mateo, California. SIE essentially brings the hardware and software units of the soon-to-be-former Sony Computer Entertainment and the PlayStation Network services run by Sony Network Entertainment International under one roof in the US.
  
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• Final Fantasy Explorers Review

  26-01-2016 06:00
  
  Final Fantasy Explorers is a fun and adorable little action RPG you can play with your friends. It offers a generous portion of customization, and there are plenty of quests and sidequests to do. Yet there’s nothing remotely special about Final Fantasy Explorers - it’s all very safe and well-trodden territory. That’s okay. Sometimes, it’s enough to just have a good time wandering around fighting monsters.
  There’s a story buried in here somewhere: something something
  
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• Nintendo Voice Chat: Shovelin' Through NX Rumors

  26-01-2016 01:21
  
  Download Nintendo Voice Chat HereThese are the kinds of things Brian Altano dreams about. Art by Pandamusk.IGN's Nintendo Show returns with a two-hour special episode. In the first half, host Jose Otero is joined by Peer Schneider and Jared Petty to talk about Minecraft Stories, Mario and Luigi: Paper Jam, Hyrule Warriors Legends, and a bunch of NX rumors. Then, after the break, special guest Sean Velasco joins Jose and Brian Altano to talk about
  
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• EA Teasing Battlefront Announcement for Tomorrow

  26-01-2016 00:33
  
  According to EA, Star Wars Battlefront players had best prepare for a frosty surprise tomorrow.Prepchallenge are for a cold front coming through #StarWarsBattlefront tomorrow... pic.twitter.com/smg6c7Ll1I
  — EAStarWars (@EAStarWars) January 25, 2016
  While the cryptic tweet from @EAStarWars doesn't hint at much besides a wintry theme, the announcement could be related to DICE's free content plan teased after the launch of the Battle for Jakku free DLC.
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