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• See just how fast mobile has overtaken the rest of games

  29-03-2016 23:15
  
  A new App Annie/IDC report sheds light on the changes in the industry over the past couple of years -- as, in 2014, mobile outpaced everything else. It's still growing....
  
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• Fallout 4 Survival Mode Now in Beta on PC

  29-03-2016 22:54
  
  UPDATE: Bethesda confirmed today that the overhauled Survival Mode is now on beta on PC and will come to consoles next month. Survival adds "additional challenges including no fast travel, saving only when you sleep, increased lethality, diseases, fatigue, danger and more."
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  Fallout 4's overhauled Survival mode will enter Steam beta on PC "soon," according to Bethesda. Although no other specifics were given, we've reached out for an official date and will update
  
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• The trials and technical triumphs of Obra Dinn

  29-03-2016 22:44
  
  Lucas Pope shares the details behind why it's taken him 1.5 years to get his latest demo near his original vertical slice -- and shares technical solutions to making his game work in Unity....
  
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• First 4 Figures Unveils Link Versus Scervo Diorama

  29-03-2016 21:36
  
  First 4 Figures has unveiled a new Legend of Zelda diorama, featuring Link and the mechanical pirate captain Scervo.
  The two characters are engaged in an epic duel on The Sandship from The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. The whole thing measures 20 inches by 11 inches by 15 inches and costs $350 USD.
  Along with a set that includes Link and Scervo, First 4 Figures is also offering the Sandship base separately for $200. Both are set to release in the third quarter of this year.
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• Nintendo’s first mobile game Miitomo hits the U.S. on March 31

  29-03-2016 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  You may have been a little disappointed when Nintendo launched Miitomo, its first mobile game, only in Japan. The limited launch was even more upsetting for Nintendo fans when you factored in just how highly-anticipated its entrance into the mobile app market was. Thankfully, you won’t have to wait much longer to play the game, though, as Miitomo is set to launch in the U.S. on March 31. The app will be available on both Android and iOS, and will offer users the option
  
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• Shadow of Mordor 2 Coming, Says Stunt Actress' Resume

  29-03-2016 21:23
  
  Warner Bros. may be gearing up to announce a sequel to Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, if the CV of stunt actress Lauren Mary Kim is any indication.
  According to Kim's iStunt profile (first spotted by NerdLeaks), the actress is doing motion capture work for Shadow of Mordor 2.Screenshot taken from Lauren Mary Kim's iStunt profile.Continue reading…
  
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• Video: Animal Crossing: Turning a New Leaf

  29-03-2016 21:14
  
  In this 2014 talk, Animal Crossing: New Leaf producer Katsuya Eguchi and director Aya Kyogoku discuss the different approaches they tried in order to develop ideas that would take advantage of the environments surrounding players....
  
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• Get a job: Be a Game Engine Engineering Director for Roblox

  29-03-2016 20:52
  
  User-created online world Roblox is looking for an experienced engineer to lead development on its game engine -- someone to "drive future feature development" of the game. ...
  
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• Don't miss: A starry-eyed Palmer Luckey talks about Oculus' future in 2013

  29-03-2016 20:42
  This 2013 interview, conducted at Gamescom shortly after Oculus recruited John Carmack as CTO, is full of promises. What became of them? Take a look at the state of Oculus three years before launch....
  
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• Blog: Transparency in mechanics and game design

  29-03-2016 20:27
  "There is always a constant struggle between showing too much or too little information for the player; even more so in strategy or RPG games built around player choice." ...
  
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• Playable Hero Sevarog Arrives In Latest Update

  29-03-2016 19:33
  Epic Games released an update for its MOBA-style game Paragon today, and it includes the first new playable hero. The soul-sucking wraith Sevarog is now available to all players alongside the balance patch for other heroes.Sevarog is described as a melee-focused "tank jungler" that wields his giant hammer to crush enemies and devour their souls. As he consumes souls by killing opponents, he stacks health and gains damage boosts, changing in size and appearance and becoming a powerful late-game
  
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• Ratchet & Clank Creator: VR 'Changing What Games Can Be'

  29-03-2016 19:25
  
  Since his youth, Ted Price has held a personal interest in virtual reality. Over the years, he saw iterations come and go, but none ever managed to truly break through.
  Years later, Price is now the president of the venerated development house Insomniac Games. The studio is taking an early risk several of its peers are also considering: creating a VR high-profile video game. After trying an Oculus dev kit at DICE, Price says he had to call up Jason Reuben from Oculus and discuss a collaboration.
  
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• How I got a game on Steam without anyone from Valve ever looking at it

  29-03-2016 19:21
  "If you were on the Steam homepage on Sunday night, you might have noticed a somewhat interesting new title available: Watch paint dry. This game was never on Greenlight. This is no more than a prank."...
  
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• The Villains Are The Stars Of Quantum Break's Latest Live-Action Trailer

  29-03-2016 18:49
  It's not often that live-action trailers are representative of what gamers are paying for. That's just one of the things that sets upcoming Xbox One and PC title Quantum Break has to offer.
  In addition to the time-bending gameplay, Quantum Break features live-action segments. In the trailer below, you'll get another look at Shawn Ashmore's Jack Joyce, Aiden Gillen's Paul Serene, and Lance Reddick's Martin Hatch.
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• 'How do you become a game designer?': GDC podcast in review

  29-03-2016 18:17
  
  As a professional game designer and a professor at Glasgow Caledonian University, Mary Flanagan has had to answer tough questions over the years, not the least of which: "How do you become a game designer?" ...
  
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• Moving from NGUI to Unity UI

  29-03-2016 18:05
  "In this post, I am not going to get into the discussion of which is better from a visual or performance standpoint. Both systems have their pros and cons, but Unity UI has the distinct advantage of being free." ...
  
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• Valve loses Australian legal battle, found guilty of breaking consumer law

  29-03-2016 18:02
  
  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has won its legal battle against Valve after suing the company over its Steam refund policy....
  
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• Video Game Hall of Fame reveals finalists for May induction

  29-03-2016 17:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — "Sonic the Hedgehog," ''Space Invaders" and "John Madden Football" are among the titles making a play for the World Video Game Hall of Fame.
  
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• PlayStation VR could be getting PC support

  29-03-2016 17:07
  Sony is looking at new ways to expand its virtual reality presence, and is toying with the idea of bringing its PlayStation VR headset to PC. ...
  
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• Minecraft: Story Mode Episode Five Launch Trailer Sets The Stage For The Next Adventure

  29-03-2016 17:00
  The fifth episode of Telltale’s Minecraft: Story Mode is out today. And, as we learned last week, it’s not the end for Jesse and the new Order of the Stone.
  The launch trailer for the latest installment explains how Jesse and the team get transported to Sky City. We learn more about the conflict and what the band of heroes are up against.
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  Additionally, you can make your own adventures for Jesse and the team. Telltale and Mojang have teamed
  
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• Nintendo Reveals Next New Character For Hyrule Warriors

  29-03-2016 15:51
  
  Nintendo has confirmed Marin from Zelda: Link's Awakening will be available in the upcoming Link's Awakening Pack for Hyrule Warriors.
  While the final character design has yet to be unveiled, a tweet from Nintendo of America showcases concept art of fan-favourite Marin.Just announced! Marin from Link’s Awakening will be available in the 2nd #HyruleWarriorsLegends DLC for #3DS + #WiiU pic.twitter.com/agAoksoeFN
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• Nintendo’s first iOS and Android app launches in the U.S. on March 31st

  29-03-2016 15:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nintendo’s first smartphone app is coming west. On Tuesday, Nintendo announced that Miitomo will launch in the United States on Thursday, March 31st. That will also mark the two week anniversary of the social app releasing in Japan, where it managed to rack up over one million downloads in just three days.
  
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• Google's AI DeepMind Turns its Gaze to Hearthstone

  29-03-2016 15:03
  
  Researchers at Oxford University are setting Google's artificial intelligence DeepMind loose on analyzing Hearthstone and Magic: The Gathering playing cards.
  According to Kotaku, the AI analyzes card data such as resource cost and damage, and turns it into code that a machine can read.
  Here's the abstract from the paper titled 'Latent Predictor Networks for Code Generation': "Many language generation tasks require the production of text conditioned on both structured and unstructured inputs. We
  
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• Nintendo's Miitomo Has a Release Date

  29-03-2016 14:39
  
  Nintendo mii-centric iOS and Android game Miitomo will launch on March 31.
  That’s the news according to the Nintendo UK Twitter account. Although the release date applies to both Europe and the US.
  The Nintendo social app has been a big hit in Japan, with the game garnering over 1 million users to date.
  What exactly is Miitomo? Well, it’s a kind of social conversation app. What does that look like? Here’s what we said after a recent hands-on:
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• PlayStation raises possibility of VR compatibility with PC, challenging Oculus Rift

  29-03-2016 13:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Should PlayStation’s virtual reality headset be made compatible with not just consoles but also computers, the entertainment company could shake up the virtual reality market and offer an even wider range of choice for home enthusiasts. Sony Computer Entertainment – known as Sony Interactive Entertainment from April onwards – is not ruling out the possibility, and appears positive about introducing PC compatibility in the PlayStation 4 headset if not immediately then certainly
  
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• Call of Duty 2016 Will Be Set in the Far Future, Say Rumours

  29-03-2016 13:40
  
  Rumours say that this year's installment of Call of Duty, developed by Infinity Ward, will be "full on sci-fi" with space combat - and will not be a sequel to the same developer's Call of Duty: Ghosts.
  On NeoGAF, proven industry insider, shinobi602 has said that the new game's future setting "makes Black Ops 3 feel like the stone age". When asked if he meant the game would be in the style of Battlefield 2142, he simply replied: "Very far future. Space Combat. Full on sci-fi."
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• Five Years After Release, Two Worlds 2 Is Getting Story DLC

  29-03-2016 12:49
  
  November 9, 2010 saw the release of action-RPG, Two Worlds II. 5 years, 4 months and 17 days later, developer Reality Pump Studios announced two new pieces of story DLC, set arrive this year.
  Announced via the DLC's new website, Reality Pump announced Call of the Tenebrae and Shattered Embrace, two story updates that will come alongside eight new multiplayer maps.
  The game will also add an engine update that will allow for "a much higher level of character and landscape detail, an HD-GUI, i
  
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• Blizzard to Change Overwatch Pose Following Fan Complaints

  29-03-2016 12:01
  
  Blizzard is removing a victory pose for Overwatch character Tracer following fan complaints.
  "What about this pose has anything to do with the character you're building in Tracer?" asked fan Fipps in a recent post on Battle.net (via Eurogamer). "It's not fun, its not silly, it has nothing to do with being a fast elite killer. It just reduces Tracer to another bland female sex symbol."
  "We aren't looking at a widowmaker pose here, this isn't a character who is in part defined by fl
  
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• The Pokémon Go Japanese Field Test Has Begun

  29-03-2016 11:16
  
  UPDATE: Our translator reports that the update reads:
  "From today, Japanese residents are invited to field test Pokemon GO. We'll give you information about the lottery system and invitation based on your device and experience of real-world gaming you've had so far. Those invited will be sent the details via email, however for those who have not received an invitation please stay excited as we are gradually expanding the field test."
  The field test for mobile AR game, Pokém
  
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• Domain Names Registered for Just Cause Go, Life is Strange Go and More

  29-03-2016 10:36
  
  Domain names have been registered for Just Cause Go, Life is Strange Go, Deus Ex Go, Thief GO and Tomb Raider Go.
  Spotted by NeoGAF user, ekim, the registrations were made using CSC Domain Tools, which Square has used on many of its previous projects.
  With this breadth of franchises, it's likely that at least some of these registrations are simply for brand protection, but given the success of the Go spin-off series they could provide clues as to what might come next.
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• Ubisoft Starts a New Studio

  29-03-2016 05:00
  
  Ubisoft announced it will open a new studio in the Philippines. The new branch will focus on collaboration and development of its upcoming AAA console games.
  The new studio, Ubisoft Philippines, will be the second production house for the company located in Southeast Asia. Ubisoft Singapore was the company’s first studio in that region when it opened in 2008. The Philippines-based studio will open in the second quarter of 2016, with a goal to hire up to 50 employees in its first year.
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• Out This Week: Oculus Rift, MLB The Show 16, Hyper Light Drifter

  29-03-2016 05:00
  
  With so many new games and movies coming out, it can be hard to keep up. Lucky for you, IGN is here to help with a weekly round-up of the biggest releases each and every week. Check out the latest releases for this week, and be sure to come back next Monday for a new update.
  Note: The prices and deals compiled below are accurate at the time we published this story, but all are subject to change.
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