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• Alucard and Dracula clash on Xbox One thanks to backwards compatibility

  20-03-2016 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Three brand new titles have been added to Microsoft’s slowly expanding list of Xbox One backwards compatible games. While they’re not fresh out of the water, so to speak, they’re still noteworthy. First off is Remedy’s thriller-ish 3rd person shooter Alan Wake , where your enemies are afraid of the light, and then there’s the timeless classic Castlevania: Symphony of the Night . Finally, there’s the ubiquitous  Pac-Man , which comes in its origi
  
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• The Xbox Live Spring Sale is live, and the Xbox One console bundles are going for $300

  20-03-2016 18:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Microsoft is launching its Spring Sale today, offering the Xbox One at its lowest price ever. Xbox One console bundles will be going for $300 at select retailers across the U.S., which is $50 off the regular price. It seems to already have started over at Best Buy. For those who haven’t got a console yet and are looking to let loose in the urban dystopia of Tom Clancy’s The Division , you may want to get in on this deal. Microsoft is also looking to expand the customer
  
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• Microsoft slashes the price of Xbox One bundles, and games

  20-03-2016 18:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Microsoft is launching its Spring Sale today, offering the Xbox One at its lowest price ever. Xbox One console bundles will be going for $300 at select retailers across the U.S., which is $50 off the regular price. It seems to already have started over at Best Buy. For those who haven’t got a console yet and are looking to let loose in the urban dystopia of Tom Clancy’s The Division , you may want to get in on this deal. Microsoft is also looking to expand the customer
  
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• Shakespeare Collides With Time Travel In Elsinore

  20-03-2016 18:00
  It's been a little odd this past week trying to explain Elsinore to people who haven't seen or played it. The closest I've gotten to a concise, accurate statement is saying that it's Hamlet but with a healthy dose of Harold Ramis' Groundhog Day thrown in. Elsinore doesn't cast you as infamous brooding prince but instead as Ophelia, who in the play ostensibly loses her mind after Hamlet kills her father and then drowns in a pond, possibly killing herself shortly before all the other main charact
  
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• Buy an Xbox One for just $299 during Microsoft’s Spring Sale

  20-03-2016 14:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Looking for a great deal on a brand new console? Look no further than Microsoft's Spring Sale , beginning on March 20th, during which Microsoft is knocking the price of the Xbox One down to $299. That's $50 off every Xbox One console bundle at participating retailers, including The Division bundle, the 500GB Name Your Game bundle and the upcoming Quantum Break bundle, which will begin shipping early next month. DON’T MISS:  5 free apps for iPhone and Android that will actual
  
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• Did the controller for Nintendo’s next console just leak?

  20-03-2016 04:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Last year, I reported on a patent for Kotaku, filed by five designers at Nintendo, that appeared to contain the blueprints for the controller on Nintendo’s next console. Code-named the NX, rumors have circulated since 2014 that Nintendo’s next console would be a hybrid, fusing elements of both traditional consoles like the Wii U and portable hardware akin to the 3DS. Now that we’re getting closer to this year’s E3 press expo, however, it should come as no surprise th
  
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• Watch How Hellblade Developers Created Senua To Be Incredibly Life-Like

  20-03-2016 00:20
  Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice has been subject to some impressive motion-capture technology, and this newest development diary details how the team created protagonist Senua's realistic expressions and movements in the game.The video includes interviews with Ninja Theory and developers from Epic Games, who both collaborated for the motion-capture side of development. Ninja Theory's Tameem Antoniades explains that one of the team's priorities with Hellblade is to "make [Senua] one of the mos
  
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