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• Making Demon Giblets Cooperatively In Shadow Warrior 2

  16-06-2016 23:58
  If you happened to read our PAX East coverage of Shadow Warrior 2, you know that Flying Wild Hog is making big changes in the sequel. A loot and customization system lets players tweak weapons, marking an evolution beyond the traditional shooter formula.
  The new edition also adds cooperative play that gives players incentive to help out friends without impacting their own game progress. When playing Shadow Warrior 2 with others, the host is in control of everything related to progression. Only
  
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• Gwent Is Much More Than Just A Digital Card Game

  16-06-2016 23:54
  Despite offering an expansive open world filled with monsters, political rivalries, and loot, many players of 2015 game of the year The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt spend more time in taverns littered throughout Temeria playing a creative card game called Gwent. CD Projekt Red noticed the intense following the pub game got, so it took the natural next step in creating a standalone digital card game that doubles down on the formula.Gwent: The Witcher Card Game plays much like the version that appeared i
  
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• Facebook out to play at Electronic Entertainment Expo

  16-06-2016 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Facebook has come a long way since early days when "Farmville" players reached out to one another for help tending virtual acreage. Facebook global games partnerships director Leo Olebe led a team at the premier video game industry gathering to find stellar new titles and meet with players, developers, publishers, and even online commentators who have become celebrities in their own rights. "Facebook plays a critical role in how people connect to the games they love and share them," Olebe told A
  
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• Nintendo: 'A New Kind of Mario' Game Is Coming

  16-06-2016 23:33
  
  Just as Nintendo is challenging the conventions of The Legend of Zelda with Breath of the Wild, the company is similarly looking to shake up what players have come to expect with Mario.
  "We're always challenging ourselves to create something new, so hopefully you'll see a new kind of Mario in about a year or two," Shigeru Miyamoto said in an interview with IGN.
  "Maybe next E3 we'll be able to share something."
  Miyamoto explained that the challenges Nintendo faces in tweaking the Mario formu
  
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• PlayStation VR coming to select stores Friday

  16-06-2016 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sony has announced that demos for PlayStation VR will drop at select Best Buy and GameStop locations throughout the country tomorrow, quickly expanding to 300 locations by the end of the month.
  
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• Five Things We Learned While Slaughtering Our Way Through For Honor

  16-06-2016 22:49
  We racked up quite the body count during our hands-on demo
  of For Honor. Here are the five big takeaways interested warriors should know.
  We played through two full levels of For Honor's single-player
  campaign, which featured the Knights and Vikings factions. The first mission is
  entitled Lords And Cowards, and follows the Warden as he helps defend a castle
  during an enemy siege. The second mission is entitled Up The Beach, and
  follows a Viking raider as he and his clan attack a samurai strongh
  
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• Blog: What role does an office play in game development?

  16-06-2016 21:42
  Could something as simple as how we think about our working environments make a difference to the quality of what we make?...
  
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• Arkham VR and Rocksteady's path to VR game development

  16-06-2016 21:12
  
  At E3 Rocksteady cofounder Sefton Hill chats with Gamasutra about how Arkham VR was made, and why he thinks VR is uniquely well-suited to evoking emotional reactions in people. ...
  
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• Thor: Ragnarok director says Thor would lead his own team in Civil War

  16-06-2016 21:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  It wasn't that long ago that Chris Hemsworth expressed his annoyance at not getting the call-up for Captain America: Civil War, making it pretty clear that Thor wouldn't side with Team Cap or Team Iron Man
  
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• Xbox One S vs. Xbox One: How does the new console stack up?

  16-06-2016 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The rumors were true — Microsoft has been working on a slim Xbox One. In fact, the reveal of the Xbox One S kicked off Microsoft's press conference at E3 this year, cementing it as one of the company's biggest announcements . So we know it's slimmer and we know it's more powerful, but how exactly does the new Xbox One S differ from the original Xbox One? READ MORE:  PlayStation vs. Xbox: Who won E3 2016? Physical changes If you own an Xbox One, or have ever seen one in the wild,
  
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• Persona 5 Continues To Impress Us As We Learn More

  16-06-2016 20:40
  At E3 2016, I went hands-off with some of the new Persona 5 footage and saw some of the different mechanics and features . Here's my biggest takeaways.There's a day-night cycle, and the protagonist will travel to popular Japanese areas like Shibuya between class and other activities.  
  Several part-time jobs are available, from flower shops to convenience stores, that should help make some extra money and work on skills.
  An "expulsion timer" is something that the player is actively working
  
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• Nintendo’s ‘Rhythm Heaven Megamix’ hits eShop following E3 debut

  16-06-2016 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nintendo's manic minigame compilation Rhythm Heaven Megamix is out now in the 3DS eShop in North America following its debut appearance at the Electronic Entertainment Expo this week.
  
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• Original Skyrim Saves 'Should Transfer' to Skyrim SE on PC

  16-06-2016 20:13
  
  The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition will come to PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC on October 28—and for PC players, saves from the original game "should transfer."
  Pete Hines, vice president of public relations and marketing at Bethesda, confirmed with Bethesda game director Todd Howard saves from the original edition of Skyrim will be supported in the special edition. He also reported the remastered edition will run on a 64-bit engine on PC, and that there will be a "separate creati
  
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• Twitter tags Zelda as the 'most talked about' game during E3

  16-06-2016 20:12
  
  While this is more of a fun data point than a particularly useful insight, it does give credence (at least, if you care about Twitter mentions) to Nintendo's Zelda-centric marketing strategy for E3...
  
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• You can play PlayStation VR at these retailers starting tomorrow

  16-06-2016 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Although Sony didn't have any new consoles to announce at E3 2016, there was one piece of hardware that stole the spotlight during the company's press conference: the PlayStation VR. Launching this fall, the PlayStation VR will be the first consumer VR headset that doesn't require a beastly PC, and later this week, you'll be able to try the headset for yourself at select retailers. DON'T MISS:  iOS 10’s hottest missing feature was just found hiding in beta 1 According to Sony , P
  
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• We Happy Few Looks Like BioShock, But Is a Different Beast

  16-06-2016 19:41
  
  The intro to Compulsion Games' We Happy Few comes straight out of George Orwell's nightmares, with people taking pills of Joy to ignore the fact that their dystopian world is so terrible. It's an aesthetic that immediately drew comparisons to BioShock, a franchise with a similar style and tone, but the setting is where the similarities both begin and end.
  Compulsion debuted the opening of We Happy Few at E3 2016 and introduced people to Arthur Hastings, an employee at City Hall's Department of A
  
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• Channeling The Action Of Bayonetta

  16-06-2016 19:40
  Square Enix's Nier: Automata, a sequel to the 2010 role-playing game Nier, takes place in a dystopian world ravaged by a proxy war between humans and robots. We spoke with Platinum Games and had a brief hands-on session with the upcoming action RPG to see the game in action.
  In Nier: Automata, mechanical enemies have overrun Earth. Humans have left the planet, outside of The Resistance, a group of humans who stayed behind to fight off the robotic enemies. You play as 2B and her companion 9S, bo
  
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• To get people into VR, Sony puts PSVR demos in stores this month

  16-06-2016 19:31
  Sony has confirmed both a 10/13 release date and expectations of supply problems for PSVR, and now its going to try and drum up popular interest by putting demo units in retail stores this month....
  
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• New Screens Chart A Course For Vengeance

  16-06-2016 19:29
  2K Games and Hangar 13 have invested years in building the world of Mafia III, and the time and attention shown to create a believable recreation of the game’s 1960s setting really shows. Look no further than these new screens for the promising game, which do a great job of showing off the fictional city of New Bordeaux, a not-so-subtle reimagining of New Orleans from 1968.From a shot of a flooded southern street, to images of stealth gameplay in the midst of the bayou, Mafia III is aimin
  
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• Several E3 Trailers Show A New City, Enemies, And A Flying Car

  16-06-2016 19:18
  Square Enix wasn't shy about showing off Final Fantasy XV during E3. Along with a boss battle demo and PlayStation VR tease, we also got three new trailers showing off enemies, a flying car, and the city of Altissia.(Please visit the site to view this media)
  Shown during Microsoft's E3 conference, this new trailer features music from Grammy-winning DJ Afrojack. The dubstep tune crescendos during action sequences, but has a more plucky melody when some chocobo riding comes on screen.  
  
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• Unity tweaks its pricing scheme in the wake of dev complaints

  16-06-2016 19:11
  
  Unity Technologies has made some changes to the new pricing scheme it launched last month due to complaints from its community that the new model can be too expensive for select Unity developers....
  
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• WB Games President on Health of the Toys-to-Life Genre

  16-06-2016 19:04
  
  As Lego Dimensions prepares for its second year of content, it enters a Toys-to-Life genre that features one less competitor with the recently announced end to production of Disney Infinity. But despite that loss, WB Games isn’t making the genre less of a priority.
  “We still viewas a large and important category for us to participate in,” WB Games president David Haddad said in an interview with IGN.Continue reading…
  
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• Ubisoft's Brawler Creates Its Own History

  16-06-2016 18:57
  Ubisoft first unveiled For Honor on stage at E3 2015, and the game came back in full force this year with a lengthy gameplay demo. The historical action title is coming on February 14, 2017.We also learned a good deal of the game's story, detailing an alternate history with some fantasy elements. Vikings, Samurai, and Knights do battle in this combat-heavy adventure. Up until now, only the game's 4v4 multiplayer had been shown off, and in learning more about the single player campaign, we were
  
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• Magic Leap and Lucasfilm team up to open mixed reality research lab

  16-06-2016 18:49
  
  The mysterious but exceedingly well-funded Floridian startup Magic Leap has forged a partnership with Lucasfilm that will see the pair opening a joint research lab for "experiential storytelling." ...
  
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• This Is The Final Kingdom Hearts Before Kingdom Hearts 3

  16-06-2016 18:44
  Kingdom Hearts 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue will be the final entry in the long-running series before Kingdom Hearts 3 is finally released. Square recently revealed some new screens for the game showing off several of its different worlds, characters, and combat. 
  Judging by the screens, Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, originally released in 2012 on the 3DS, has really benefited from its upscale for the PlayStation 4, looking comparable to the recent HD re-releases of Kingdom Hearts
  
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• E3 2016 trailer recap: Nintendo - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild"

  16-06-2016 18:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fulfilling its promise to provide a big focus on March 2017's "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" at the 2016 Electronic Entertainment Expo, Nintendo rolled out nearly five hours' worth of preview video profiling the game -- even if it stayed steadfastly quiet on how the Wii U game might be adapted for a new console due at the same time. "We're going to be showing a lot of 'The Legend of Zelda' today," says Nintendo marketer Bill Trinen, offering a strong contender for 2016's Understatemen
  
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• Blog: Load Testing with Locust.io

  16-06-2016 17:59
  
  A brief overview of how Kongregate uses Locust.io to perform distributed load testing of its infrastructure on Amazon Web Services....
  
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• Sony is the real winner of E3 2016, says Facebook data

  16-06-2016 17:47
  
  With E3 more or less done and dusted for another year, Facebook has teamed up with analytics outfit Pulsar to answer that all important question: who won the conference war?...
  
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• Watch The Entire E3 2016 Demo

  16-06-2016 17:25
  I recently got the chance to play through a brief sequence of Red Barrels follow-up to the terrifying Outlast. I wrote up my thoughts on my experience with the preview section here, but I was also able to record the entire thing for your viewing pleasure.Just a fair warning: some of this footage is extremely graphic and gory. You can watch the whole demo right here:
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• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child won't have Daniel Radcliffe in the audience any time soon

  16-06-2016 16:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has already earned rave reviews from the lucky few who have gotten to see it at previews, but one person who won't be attending the show any time soon is Daniel Radcliffe
  
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• Your game can change peoples' lives (even unintentionally)

  16-06-2016 16:37
  
  We recently received a message describing how our game had a profound effect on someone's life, and I felt I needed to share it with the game dev community. ...
  
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• Allison Road scrapped after Team17 and Lilith end partnership

  16-06-2016 16:36
  "After a long consideration between Team17 and ourselves, we have reached a mutual agreement to end our collaboration on publishing Allison Road under Team17's Games label."...
  
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• E3 2016 trailer recap: Nintendo - 'Pokémon' Sun, Moon and Go, 'Ever Oasis,' 'Mario Party,' 'Yo-Kai 2,' 'Paper Mario'

  16-06-2016 15:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Peruse our pick of Nintendo's new trailers and live demonstrations from the 2016 Electronic Entertainment Expo, including those for "Pokémon Sun," "Pokémon Moon," and the Android and iOS app "Pokémon Go," as well as new "Zelda"-esque RPG "Ever Oasis," potential Pokémon successor (or imitator) "Yo-Kai Watch 2,"
  
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• Michael Bay to create cinematic VR with The Rogue Initiative

  16-06-2016 15:39
  
  "I've enjoyed a longstanding relationship with Mr. Bay and couldn't be more excited to work with him and truly leverage his unique vision and incredible depth of experience to this amazing new medium." ...
  
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• Blog: Debating limited time content in games

  16-06-2016 15:26
  Here's a look at the pros and cons of using limited-time content as a form of marketing a game. ...
  
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• The Walking Dead: Henry Rollins was almost cast as Negan

  16-06-2016 13:36 via gamesradar.com
  
  When it was confirmed that Negan would be introduced at the end of The Walking Dead's sixth season, one of the names being bandied about to play the part was Henry Rollins
  
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• Video game makers finding their way in virtual worlds

  16-06-2016 12:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Wizards duel and players transform into tribal warriors and fierce jaguars -- welcome to the world of virtual reality at the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) video game industry gathering. Virtual reality games got very real at E3 this year as studios show off titles tailored for Rift, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR, and Galaxy Gear VR headsets. "It feels like VR is everywhere and dominating the industry right now," Oculus chief executive Brendan Iribe told AFP at E3 on Wednesday.
  
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• Joker's Suicide Squad tattoos are "Easter eggs" that tell "very specific stories", says David Ayer

  16-06-2016 11:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  Everything we've seen from Suicide Squad so far makes two things abundantly clear; Margot Robbie is going to steal the show as Harley Quinn, and Jared Leto's Joker will be unlike any version of the character we've seen before
  
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• How emotional psychology and The Goonies inspired Sea of Thieves

  16-06-2016 10:00
  
  "We're not a realistic sailing game, we're not a realistic pirate game. We're trying to build this pirate fantasy which delivers on the romance and the sense of adventure." ...
  
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• New Game of Thrones season 6 images tease 'The Battle of the Bastards'

  16-06-2016 09:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  After almost a season's worth of build-up, the penultimate hour of Game of Thrones will finally see Jon Snow and his makeshift army face off against Ramsay Bolton and his forces in 'The Battle of the Bastards'
  
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• Talking New Additions And Long-Term Vision With Ed Boon

  16-06-2016 07:14
  The 2013 DC Comics-focused fighting game Injustice: Gods Among Us proved to be a smash hit with players and critics. The compelling story that pitted heroes and villains alike against a maniacal alternate universe Superman was an obvious highlight, while the fight mechanics that NetherRealm introduced with 2011's Mortal Kombat were further refined and tweaked to deliver a great game for fighting game fans and fans of the DC Universe. With injustice 2, game director Ed Boon and his team at Nethe
  
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• ReCore's Color-Changing Action On A Hostile Eden

  16-06-2016 07:07
  ReCore's debut last E3 was brief, and this time around Microsoft and developers Armature (Metroid Prime) and Keiji Inafune's Comcept had plenty more to talk about the third-person action title.
  ReCore takes place on Far Eden. As the name implies, this was going to be a wonderful new beginning for humans. However, when heroine Joule Adams awakes from her cryogenic sleep, something's clearly amiss. Far from a paradise, the terraforming process for Far Eden has gone wrong. The planet has been scar
  
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• Forming A Special Bond: The First 30 Minutes Of The Last Guardian

  16-06-2016 06:31
  It seems like we've been waiting an eternity for The Last Guardian, and at this E3 not only was the PS4 title's release date of October 25 announced, but we got to play the game's first 30 minutes. It's the beginning of the title as well as a special friendship.
  Note: I'm going to talk about the game's beginning, but this isn't a moment-by-moment account. However, if you want to know absolutely nothing about the game, then stop reading now.
  In the world of The Last Guardian, the Trico is a beas
  
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• Answering Your Five Big Questions

  16-06-2016 06:22
  You can play the Resident Evil 7: Biohazard demo for yourself (or watch us do it if you’re feeling lazy), but the demo won’t answer all your question about the game. Here are some of the biggest details I was able to glean about the game during my hands on time.Question One: What is the setting?The short demo that is out now is set on a plantation in the South. This is essentially the game’s prologue. Unfortunately, we don’t know much more here. However, it’s also
  
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• The 8 Things We Learned While Playing Horizon: Zero Dawn

  16-06-2016 04:56
  
  After a couple of very impressive - if rather overwhelming  - E3 demos, Guerrilla Games' Horizon: Zero Dawn finally clicked into place once the controller was in my hand. It’s a huge game with a lot of complex, disparate systems, so I've compartmentalised the 8 things that left the biggest impression on me after my 30 minutes in its world.
  Every machine type Horizon: Zero Dawn has its own strengths and weaknesses and must be approached with these in mind. With her focus ability (activ
  
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• WB Games President on If Other DC Characters Could Get the Batman: Arkham Treatment

  16-06-2016 02:37
  
  Batman has starred in four Arkham games in recent years while a host of DC Comics heroes and villains have recently come to blows in Injustice: Gods Among Us and its upcoming sequel, but is there room for more DC Comics characters to take the spotlight in their own games?
  "DC is an enormous priority for our entire company, and we're thrilled that games can really support franchise building at almost the same level as movies and television can," WB Games President David Haddad said in an intervie
  
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• Deck-building mechanics meet brawler in Absolver

  16-06-2016 02:35
  
  One of the most interesting fighting games I've ever played is in development by a somewhat unlikely group: ex-Ubisoft developers who've spent the last several years making shooting games like Ghost Recon. ...
  
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• Fallout 4's Dialogue 'Didn't Work as Well,' Says Director

  16-06-2016 02:15
  
  Despite the shooting in Fallout 4 being "really good," some players thought Bethesda could have improved on a few things, including the dialogue system.
  Bethesda Game Studios director Todd Howard spoke to GameSpot about the studio's tendency to "try new things" and how the team's efforts don't always pan out. "Obviously, the way we did some dialogue stuff, that didn't work as well," he said.
  Fallout 4 voice actors spent two years recording over 13,000 lines of dialogue for the game, an
  
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• Everything We Learned During E3 2016

  16-06-2016 02:10
  We had a lot of fun during our hands-on
  session with Horizon Zero Dawn yesterday, but we were also furiously taking
  notes about everything we saw. Here's our full list of all the observations we
  made during our time with the game.
  If you've been following Horizon Zero Dawn's development
  closely, some of this information may be familiar to you already. If so, feel
  free to erase those bullet points in your mind, or read our hands-on
  preview for all new impressions.
  Horizon Zero Dawn takes place 1
  
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• Q& A: Injustice 2 and the balancing act of adding gear to a fighting game

  16-06-2016 01:55
  
  At E3 NetherRealm's Adam Urbano chats with Gamasutra a bit about why, exactly, NetherRealm is making another Injustice and what he's learned about building a balanced, tournament-grade fighting game....
  
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