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• The leading men of video games would be just as gross as any other bro on Tinder

  28-01-2016 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Video game characters, by and large, have been created to make war, not love. It should not surprise you to find that when they do decide to take some time out to look for love, they don’t employ the most nuanced approaches to seduction and romance. Highlighting this point is YouTube gaming humor channel The Warp Zone, whose latest entry in their “if video games had” series envisioned the terrifying world of inter-game Tinder dating. In the video, Nintendo it-couple&n
  
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• Nintendo eShop updates with a double-dose of Final Fantasy

  28-01-2016 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Final Fantasy fans can grab the series’ latest spinoff and a beloved classic as part of this week’s Nintendo eShop update in North America. This week marks the release of the Nintendo 3DS action-RPG Final Fantasy Explorers and a Virtual Console port of Final Fantasy Tactics Advance , giving franchise fans access to dozens of hours of character building and strategic combat. Related:  3DS action-RPG Final Fantasy Explorers premieres stateside in 2016 Final Fantasy Explorers takes
  
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• Update: Peter Molyneux's Twitter Was Apparently Hacked

  28-01-2016 22:13
  
  UPDATE: It appears Peter Molyneux isn't retiring after all, but instead had his Twitter account hacked, in spite of what we reported when the tweets first went live.
  After a series of tweets claiming he was retiring from the game industry and pulling Godus from the Steam store, the apparently-real Peter Molyneux followed up by saying his account had been hacked.
  Molyneux wrote the give-away was the previous 3 tweets were bereft of spelling errors. The tweets are, at this time, still on Moly
  
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• The Massive Armies of Ashes of the Singularity

  28-01-2016 21:58
  
  If you're an RTS veteran, you've heard the promise Ashes of the Singularity makes - that you can command hundreds, or even thousands of unit - and you've heard it enough times to know that it often winds up being untrue, or simply unfun. I haven't actually played it yet to know whether it will actually be a good time, but I can say that thanks to a handful of smart design ideas, it looks like it has a real chance at delivering on the promise of making practical use of massive armadas.
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• Sandstorm: Pirate Wars Sets Sail For Android and iOS

  28-01-2016 21:45
  Developer Ubisoft Barcelona released its Mad Max-inspired take on post-apocalyptic pirates today. These aren’t the kind of pirates that shout, “Arrr, matey!” on a boat, these are the kind of pirates that ruthlessly destroy a sand cruiser to salvage its valuable parts.A cast of eccentric scavengers upgrade your sand cruiser in between heated battles set in a dystopian desert. The clashing cruisers are similar to the warring ships of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag.(Please
  
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• Gears of War 2, Hand of Fate free for Xbox Live Gold subscribers in February

  28-01-2016 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Xbox Live Gold subscribers have another prime batch of free games to look forward to next month, as Microsoft revealed that Gears of War 2 and Hand of Fate are among February’s scheduled freebies. As in recent months, Xbox One owners will be able to download and play all of next month’s featured Games With Gold titles, including Xbox 360 releases, via the platform’s backward compatibility technology. Related:  Snoop Dogg draws attention to Xbox Live’s outage while PS
  
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• Game Scoop!: What Are the Best SEGA Games?

  28-01-2016 20:59
  
  Welcome back to Game Scoop!, IGN's weekly video game talk show. This week we're discussing the best SEGA games, a dangerous new golf game, Mighty No. 9, and much more. Watch the video above or download the podcast below.
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• USC to Start Its Own Games Publishing Program

  28-01-2016 20:23
  
  The University of Southern California is getting into games publishing.
  According to a story on Wired the university will launch its own publishing company this spring. The appropriately titled USC Games Publishing will focus on projects by students and faculty for PlayStation and Xbox consoles, as well as PC and mobile.
  The move is thanks in part to USC's often stellar game design program. Projects that started on the campus include Flow (Thatgamecompany's precursor to Flower and Journey), The
  
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• Winter Sports Game Snow Enters Free Open Beta Today

  28-01-2016 20:22
  The upcoming open-world winter sports game Snow has just entered its open beta phase. Anyone can now download the beta for free on PC through Steam.The beta features free-roam multiplayer skiing as well as competitive events, leaderboards, and enhanced graphics. The game’s expanded mountain now has over 20 areas to discover, while snowboarding and snowmobiling are still in development.(Please visit the site to view this media)
  The beta also includes a number of free-to-play elements, such
  
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• The Division Will Get 3 Paid Expansions

  28-01-2016 20:11
  
  Ubisoft has gone into more detail about Tom Clancy's The Division's post-launch plans.
  Three paid expansions will be coming to the online shooter over the course of the year. Expansion I: Underground will let players explore the "uncharted underworld" of New York City with up to three friends. Expansion II: Survival will task players with surviving as long as possible "in a very hostile environment." No details were givien for Expansion III: Last Stand.
  These three expansions
  
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• Bandai Namco Rumored to Be Working on NX Games

  28-01-2016 20:05
  
  A new rumor claims Bandai Namco is currently working on several NX games, with Super Smash Bros. planned as a launch title for Nintendo's next platform.
  Dr. Serkan Koto, the CEO of Tokyo-based game industry consultant firm Kantan Games, shared the rumor on Twitter this morning, saying: "Bandai Namco is currently developing several NX titles. Smash Bros is planned to be a launch title. I am not sure about the date."
  In a subsequent post, Koto elaborated on the Smash Bros. rumor, adding: "I h
  
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• Tharsis is a video game about life's mundane decisions — and also space cannibalism

  28-01-2016 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tharsis is a digital, single-player board game about four astronauts and their harrowing journey to Mars. Tharsis is more fascinating, anyway, as a metaphor for adulthood. Tharsis’ board is a tubular spaceship divided into discrete rooms — control pod, medical bay, veggie laboratory, and so on.
  
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• Microsoft Exec Offers Sea of Thieves Gameplay Hints

  28-01-2016 18:00
  
  Ahead of Sea of Thieves' release later this year, Microsoft exec Aaron Greenberg stopped by the IGN office to discuss Rare's pirate-centric MMO.
  Speaking on the latest episode of IGN Unfiltered, the Xbox Games Marketing head shared his experience with an early prototype version of the game, noting that while the scale and visuals still need work, the core mechanic of "meet a bunch of people on a ship and we're going to an island" is there.
  Greenberg described one particular experience he ha
  
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• Become Dwarven Astronauts in New Action-RPG

  28-01-2016 18:00
  
  “Why hasn’t anyone else done something like this?” That’s the first question that came to mind when I heard about We Are the Dwarves. It merges the traditional high-fantasy elements of the dwarf race with interstellar adventure – except space has a twist. The universe in We Are the Dwarves is literally made of stone and planets and stars exist in caves and hollows within the stone space. It’s like if you took a Drizzt Do’Urden Forgotten Realms book and m
  
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• Conan Exiles Takes On The Open World Wasteland

  28-01-2016 16:50
  Age of Conan developer Funcom has announced a new title for the property – Conan Exiles. With both single- and multiplayer components, the open-world title will challenge your ability to survive in a desolate world.
  Players will have to battle a harsh landscape with sandstorms as well as enemies, and the title requires you to hunt for food and gather resources in order to build weapons, tools, shelters, and eventually settlements and strongholds.
  The game can be played alone or with other
  
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• Nintendo expected to launch a new handheld game console this year

  28-01-2016 16:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nintendo is expected to launch a new portable gaming device in 2016, according to a statement from IHS senior principal analyst Hiroshi Hayase on Thursday. This console is expected to be the first of two next-generation devices that will make up the much-rumored  NX  project. MUST SEE:  8 reasons I still can't leave the iPhone and switch to Android "We expect a small recovery in shipments of flat-panel displays for game devices because of Nintendo’s new game h
  
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• Song of the Deep Is Insomniac Games' New Passion Project

  28-01-2016 15:30
  
  The idea for Insomniac Games' latest title, Song of the Deep, all started with a sub. The developer wanted to find a way to create an underwater side-scrolling game and liked the idea of exploring the mysteries and monsters of the water with a submarine, but the game quickly became more personal than that.
  The first piece of concept art for what would eventually become Song of the Deep was of a young brunette girl holding a candle while overlooking the ocean. Insomniac Chief Creative Officer Bri
  
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• GameStop Is Publishing Insomniac's New Game

  28-01-2016 15:30
  
  The release of Insomniac Games' new title Song of the Deep (more details here) is going to be an experiment for the developer. Instead of being released through a traditional publisher, Insomniac has teamed with GameStop for what Ted Price, the company's founder, calls a "non-traditional developer-publisher relationship."
  Song of the Deep is a passion project Insomniac has been working on for about a year. The underwater side-scrolling exploration game follows the adventure of Merryn, a 12-year-
  
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• Angry Birds maker Rovio spins off education business

  28-01-2016 13:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rovio Entertainment Ltd, the maker of hit mobile phone game Angry Birds, said on Thursday it would spin off its education business, including a preschool concept and digital learning tools, as part of its restructuring. A new company called Fun Academy has licensed the Angry Birds brand and will continue to operate existing Angry Birds Playgrounds in China, Singapore and the United States. The firm will be led by Sanna Lukander, formerly Rovio's vice president of education.
  
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• Stunning Dark Souls 3 Screens Show More of the World

  28-01-2016 12:52
  
  Bandai Namco has released a host of HD Dark Souls III screenshots.
  The screenshots show a Pyromancer in action, a new look Firelink Shrine, and a peek at The High Wall of Lothric.
  There’s no mention of which format the HD screens were captured on, so feel free to take them with a pinch of salt while viewing them.
  Dark Souls III is due for release on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC on April 12, 2016. Also coming in April is a Dark Souls comic-book, as well as several different collector&rsq
  
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• Eight New Screenshots And Five Pieces Of Concept Art Showcase Dark Souls III

  28-01-2016 05:00
  Bandai Namco released a handful of screen shots and art assets for Dark Souls III, each with a descriptive title detailing (in some cases) exactly what is happening and who we are seeing in the images.
  Bandai Namco also offered some details about the game's earliest moments. Here's the full walkthrough:
  As they begin the game, players will find themselves revived in the Untended Graves as an “Unkindled” and will have to face the mighty Iudex Gundyr as a test to prove their worth bef
  
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• Rise of the Tomb Raider - Baba Yaga: The Temple of the Witch Review

  28-01-2016 04:16
  
  Rise of the Tomb Raider’s first piece of story-driven DLC Baba Yaga: The Temple of the Witch is an enjoyable, if brief, adventure that adds a welcome supernatural element to familiar puzzle-solving and adventuring. Although a fetch quest in well-trodden territory is a low point, The Temple of the Witch stands out from the main campaign by virtue of this unexpected psychedelia.
  Lara’s hunt for a witch who’d allegedly terrorized locals for years is a welcome change from Rise of t
  
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• 7 Hours With Valve VR: IGN's Live Updates

  28-01-2016 03:26
  
  We're spending seven hours with 12 Valve VR games today.
  IGN is attending an all-day Valve VR event in Seattle, WA, where we're spending it with Valve, VR developers, and the incredible Vive headset. We'll be updating this page live with various impressions of each game throughout the day, alongside interesting developer quotes and more.
  Have questions? Leave them in the comments and we'll follow up on what you want to know.
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• Unlocked: Burnout Returns...As a Golf Game...Sort of...

  28-01-2016 03:25
  
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  On this week's Xbox show, we celebrate the very Burnout-y new golf game (yes, golf game!) from the original creators of Burnout. Plus: praise for the word-of-mouth hit ARK: Survival Evolved and the awesome adventure that is Oxenfree. We also discuss the potential awesomeness of PlatinumGames's just-announced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game, share what you're getting for your $50 season pass in Star Wars Battlefront, lament Mighty No. 9's latest delay, and
  
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• Bungie President Steps Down, Board of Directors Appoints New CEO

  28-01-2016 01:36
  
  Bungie studio President Harold Ryan has stepped down.
  Bungie's board of directors announced long-time COO Pete Parsons will now take over as CEO.
  Parsons posted the following statement on Bungie's website:
  "I want to personally thank Harold for his friendship, passion, hard work, and dedication in helping make Bungie the great company it is today. As a team, we celebrated many victories and weathered many storms.
  To the players of Destiny, I want you to know that my number one priority, and Bung
  
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• The Fallout 4 Spoilercast

  28-01-2016 01:07
  
  This week on Vault, IGN's weekly Fallout 4 show, Jared, Brendan, Miranda, and Dan finally take on all the secrets and spoilers of Fallout 4. Revel in the hugeness, twists, and turns of Fallout's biggest moments. Enjoy your apocalypse!
  You can also listen via direct download.
  Subscribe to Vault on iTunes! And while you're at it, please give us a really good review!
  Jared Petty is a Senior Editor at IGN. Chat with him on Twitter @pettycommajared.Continue reading…
  
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