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• Dishonored 2, No Man's Sky Included in Into the Pixel Art Exhibit

  18-06-2016 22:24
  
  The official selections for the 2016 Into the Pixel art collection were on display at E3 2016.
  The exhibit "honors video game artists who continue to push the interactive entertainment art form forward," and is a joint effort between the Entertainment Software Association and the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences.
  AIAS president Martin Rae said the exhibit is welcome respite from the "the craziness of the conference" for many convention goers.
  The 2015 Into the Pixel winners were on displ
  
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• The E3 Stage Demo Played Better Than It Looked

  18-06-2016 21:00
  Aside from the multitude of premature leaks, most of the E3 2016 press conferences went off without a hitch. There were few bad demos, but one of the surprise poor stage demos was Final Fantasy XV. The demo showcased the massive Titan Trial, which had Noctis and Gladiolus battling one of the largest foes ever seen in the series' long history. Unfortunately, the stage demo was full of missteps and a rush of negativity flooded social media as fans reacted to the action shown on screen. I had the
  
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• Hands On With This Gravity Defying First-Person Shooter

  18-06-2016 19:42
  During E3, I was given the chance to play a couple of rounds of Boss Key's upcoming multiplayer first-person shooter, LawBreakers, a game that tries so hard to capture the glory of arena shooters like Quake III and Unreal Tournament.On that level, it works pretty well, letting you zip around various maps, playing as colorful characters armed with powerful, futuristic weaponry.
  At the beginning of each match, you're given the option of four classes: titan, enforcer, assassin, and vanguard. Each
  
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• No Man's Sky Developer Settles Lawsuit With Sky TV

  18-06-2016 13:42
  
  After a legal dispute with Sky TV, No Man's Sky developer Hello Games has secured the rights to include the word 'Sky' in the title of its ambitious space exploration game.
  Studio founder Sean Murray shared the news in a post on Twitter, saying, "Yay! We finally settled with Sky (they own the word 'Sky'). We can call our game No Man's Sky. 3 years of secret stupid legal nonsense over."
  In a subsequent post, Murray noted the dispute was with "the same folks who made Microsoft change Skydrive
  
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• E3 2016: How Xbox and PlayStation are learning from Apple

  18-06-2016 09:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Console brands Xbox and PlayStation are finding ways to keep their players on board by offering something for everyone. Both Microsoft's Xbox and Sony's PlayStation are changing their approaches to console gaming. Neither giant console brand wants to be stuck with static console technology for 5, 6 or 7 years when mobile devices and personal computers are advancing so fast around them.
  
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• Beyond Good and Evil 2 Still Happening, Ubisoft CEO Says

  18-06-2016 04:01
  
  Beyond Good & Evil 2 is in development, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot confirmed during a Youtube Live interview at E3.
  "It's still on the way," Guillemot said. "It's something at one point you will see, yes." However, it sounds like the Beyond Good & Evil sequel will take a while.
  "Michelis working on it, but he's doing two games at the same time, he's doing Wild at the same time. It's coming along, but he has to spend more time on it so we can see it faster," he added.
  In April, Ubisoft fi
  
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• The Legend of Zelda E3 Demo Contains Coded Messages

  18-06-2016 03:59
  
  It looks like Nintendo embedded secret messages into The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild footage from E3.
  Zelda fans have already created a translation key for the written language seen throughout Breath of the Wild. They haven't figured out every letter just yet—but they're well on their way.
  Image via the Zelda wikiNeoGAF user RagnarokX mentioned it all began when Nintendo released a teaser image with Hylian text. Another GAFer "noticed a pattern," and figured out the text read THELE
  
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• Samsung makes teens earn their gaming time at LANdry video game laundromat

  18-06-2016 01:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In an effort to get teenagers excited about household chores, Samsung has opened the world's first PC gaming laundromat in Sweden call LANdry. Customers can earn gaming time by doing loads of laundry.
  
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