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• GTA Online: This is the Best Time to Become a CEO

  12-08-2016 23:44
  
  This week's update offers massive discounts for those looking to start their own criminal empire in GTA Online.
  
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• 7 Useful Controls No Man's Sky Doesn't Tell You About

  12-08-2016 23:44
  
  These hidden controls were left out of No Man's Sky's tutorial, but will serve you well on your adventure through the universe.
  
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• See The First Screens Of The Upcoming Remake

  12-08-2016 23:27
  
  Cutter Slade is headed back to Adelpha in a remake of the PC title Outcast. The newly announced Outcast - Second Contact is due for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC in March 2017.The game is being developed by French studio Appeal and published by Big Ben Interactive. Outcast's plot follows a United States Special Forces operative on a quest to protect a group of scientists on a newly discovered world. Talans, the planet's native aliens, give Slade a less-than-warm welcome and threaten the future
  
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• Destiny: Rise of Iron will give you more control over faction rewards

  12-08-2016 23:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Raise your hand if you've run into something like this in Destiny: you've been grinding Dead Orbit reputation all week, hoping for a cool goth gun
  
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• See The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's ruined Temple of Time

  12-08-2016 22:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  Alright, so it turns out the Temple of Time in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is not itself immune to the ravages of time
  
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• 5 Ways People Are Cheating at Pokemon Go

  12-08-2016 22:19
  
  If we’ve learned anything from Pokemon Go, it’s that people will go to great lengths in order to successfully beef up their Pokedex and increase their levels. Some travel the world in an attempt to catch ‘em all, some make additional purchases for phone battery packs to maintain a good charge, and others accidentally stumble off a pier trying to line up the perfect shot.
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• There's More Than One Way To Take On A Zed

  12-08-2016 22:03
  
  Today developer Tripwire Interactive announced that Killing Floor 2 is releasing globally on November 18 (PC/PS4), and with it comes modes for both solo players and those playing with and against friends.
  Killing Floor 2 supports six player co-op and solo play, as well as a "12
  Player PvP Versus Survival Game Mode." In it, a team of humans face against a team of Zeds (the game's zombie-like enemies).On PC, the game's base release will cost $29.99 digitally, and its Digital Deluxe edition will c
  
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• Spotify created a gaming section, so we created a gaming playlist

  12-08-2016 21:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ready to jam out to some of your favorite video game tunes? We are
  
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• No Man's Sky: Users Reporting PC Launch Day Problems

  12-08-2016 21:33
  
  No Man's Sky launched today, August 12, on PC, but many users have begun reporting that this version of the game is plagued with performance issues and is preventing some players from even playing the game.
  Dozens of players on the No Man's Sky subreddit, as well as on the game's Steam community page, have posted about issues they have encountered with the game so far. Many players have reported poor performance issues and stuttering, while others have reported they are unable to launch the game
  
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• King-owned studio Z2 lays off marketing and support staff

  12-08-2016 21:29
  
  Gamasutra has confirmed that Z2 has laid off its marketing and support staff 9 months after being scooped up in the Activision-Blizzard purchase of King. ...
  
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• Video: How Star Wars: Battlefront was built with real props & locations

  12-08-2016 21:07
  
  Find out how the Star Wars Battlefront team worked to incorporate real-world locations and props from the original Star Wars films. ...
  
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• GTA Online event forks over double GTA$ for VIP Adversary Modes

  12-08-2016 20:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you love to feel important, or to feel like you're trying to kill somebody important, the latest GTA Online event week is perfect for you
  
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• The Nintendo NX May Feature Motion Sensing Similar To Microsoft's Kinect

  12-08-2016 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nintendo has promised to show their next gaming machine, codenamed the NX, next month, but the system’s general outline may already be coming into view. Well, eagle-eyed gamers have discovered new Nintendo patent filings that seem to confirm these rumors, and point to another surprising NX feature. Now, here’s where things get really interesting — Nintendo has also filed a patent for some type of gesture-based input tech.
  
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• Send Us Your Weirdest No Man's Sky Discoveries

  12-08-2016 20:00
  
  A few days into No Man's Sky and we've already encountered our share of weird and wonderful things across its vast universe.
  From bizarre creatures to black holes and beyond, there's always something to see in its procedurally-generated galaxies.
  But it's impossible to see everything there is in this game, with its several quintillion planets, so we thought we'd reach out to the IGN community and get a look at what you've encountered in your own No Man's Sky adventures.
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• Valve shuffles around games bundled with HTC Vive

  12-08-2016 19:47
  
  The Gallery and Zombie Training Simulator will replace Fantastic Contraption and as the games bundled with the HTC Vive. ...
  
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• 5 things we learned from Titanfall 2 single-player gameplay footage

  12-08-2016 19:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  Like a mech crashing onto the battlefield, new footage of the Titanfall 2 single-player campaign has descended from the sky to grace us with its presence
  
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• Han Solo spin-off is casting for a young Lando Calrissian, who may be played by Donald Glover

  12-08-2016 19:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Han Solo spin-off is adding another familiar face from the original trilogy to join the Millennium Falcon owner on his standalone adventure
  
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• PlayStation Now for PC and Mac will likely be revealed during September’s press event

  12-08-2016 19:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The latest PlayStation rumor is that Sony will launch the PlayStation Now game streaming service for Windows and Mac in late August, but that doesn't align with Sony's plans for its "PlayStation Meeting" in New York City on September 7.
  
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• 'Quantum Break' no longer exclusive to Xbox and Windows 10

  12-08-2016 19:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ambitious video game "Quantum Break" was first presented as exclusive to the Xbox One console, then as a joint release for Windows 10 computers. Now, after just five months on the Windows 10 Store, it's being re-released but through one of the PC's most popular retailers, Steam. At its unveiling in 2013, action adventure game "Quantum Break" was an intriguing new title in Microsoft's Xbox One line-up.
  
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• Nvidia drops Shield Tablet successor as Nintendo NX looms

  12-08-2016 18:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hardware manufacturer Nvidia has dropped plans to continue its Shield Tablet gaming brand with a rumored upgrade, announcing in an FCC filing this week that "for business reasons, the product has been canceled."
  
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• Overwatch: Mercy and Mei to Get Buffs, Zenyatta to Get Nerfed

  12-08-2016 18:39
  
  Overwatch principal designer Geoff Goodman has been discussing some ideas for changes to various heroes on the Blizzard forums.
  In a thread simply titled "Don't nerf Zenyatta," Goodman had some bad news:
  "Zenyatta is definitely playing a lot better these days. At this point anecdotal feedback, internal stats, and competitive feedback are all showing hes actually a bit *too* strong at the moment. At this point we're looking likely to reduce some of his power in an upcoming patch, probably re
  
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• IGN UK Podcast #344: Welcome to PoisonGit, No Man Sky's Premiere Planet

  12-08-2016 18:02
  
  We learned a lot of things about Dale on this week's podcast. That he bloody loved the first Dead Space. That he's surprisingly good at identifying sludge metal band names. And that he labels his discovered No Man's Sky planets things like "Hello Everyone From Hell" and "Xerox at All Times."
  If this is what he names fictional astrological bodies, imagine what he'll name his future children.
  Terrifying projections of questionable parenting aside, this week Joe, Rory, Dale and Alysia take a gander
  
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• Gears of War 4: How Old Marcus and New Robots Fit In

  12-08-2016 18:00
  
  A lot of what we’ve heard from new Gears of War developer The Coalition so far is how it’s qualified to make a Gears game, and, essentially, why we should trust them with our beloved Gnashers and Lancers. The Coalition isn’t out to redefine Gears. Why try to rework combat that, as we saw with Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, still stands well today? We traveled to Vancouver to visit The Coalition on their turf and get the latest, longest look at Gears of War 4 yet.
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• Watch the Gamescom Titanfall 2 multiplayer livestream and cheer on your faction

  12-08-2016 17:53 via gamesradar.com
  
  Titanfall 2 will give a major demo of its multiplayer next week at Gamescom 2016, and you're invited to watch
  
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• Watch the Battlefield 1 Gamescom livestream here

  12-08-2016 17:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  EA is planning another good-old fashioned skirmish Battlefield 1 livestream for its Gamescom 2016 pre-show, this time with an all-new map that goes far afield from the typical war torn France of World War 1 depictions
  
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• Firefly Games targets Hollywood following $10M investment

  12-08-2016 17:34
  L.A. and Shanghai-based mobile developer-publisher Firefly Games has raised $10 million to bolster the development of titles based on Hollywood IPs.  ...
  
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• WWE 2K17 New Features Revealed

  12-08-2016 17:32
  
  WWE 2K17 is getting a plethora of new changes to gameplay, MyCareer, WWE Universe, and more, but won't have a 2K Showcase, 2K Games has revealed.
  The publisher explained the exclusion of a 2K Showcase, a mode that focuses on past WWE rivalries, saying that ideas, which revolved around cover Superstar Brock Lesnar, weren't feasible because of other historic WWE Superstars not being in the game.
  "In all, we didn’t feel good about creating a Showcase that was not up to our standards and curre
  
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• Blog: The historical legacy of text game puzzles

  12-08-2016 17:08
  
  "This series sets out the historical roots of the text puzzle and the influence it has had on the evolution of video games." ...
  
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• South Park: The Fractured But Whole parodies Oculus Rift with a fart-smelling VR device

  12-08-2016 16:56 via gamesradar.com
  
  South Park: The Fractured But Whole does not look like a terribly mature game
  
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• No Man's Sky Devs Working on 'Critical Issues'

  12-08-2016 16:29
  
  No Man’s Sky developer Hello Games has laid out what the team is doing to fix the game’s numerous problems.
  In a post on the No Man’s Sky website, Hello Games says its working on fixes for the most “critical issues,” and those problems will be addressed in a patch in the “near future.” It's not made clear what those issues are, specifically.
  The team has also brought in a QA group that’s bigger than the entire dev team in the hopes of spotting bugs
  
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• Ubisoft Invents Fart-Smelling Virtual Reality Tech for South Park

  12-08-2016 16:20
  
  Virtual Reality may be filling our eyes and ears right now, but Ubisoft has taken things a step further by creating a Nosulus Rift - a mask that pipes the smell of farts into your nose as you create them in South Park: the Fractured But Whole. Yes.
  This actual, genuine, no-fooling real bit of tech will be travelling to Cologne in time for Gamescom, where at least one person from the IGN team will be forced to use it. I really hope it's not me.
  Whoever gets the honour, they'll likely end up smell
  
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• Watch Destiny: Rise of Iron's Gamescom livestream right here

  12-08-2016 15:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Before Destiny goes to the Plaguelands with the Rise of Iron on September 20, it's headed to Gamescom 2016
  
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• Final Fantasy 15 DLC Packs to Make Each Party Member Playable

  12-08-2016 15:49
  
  While the main game has the player exclusively controlling lead character, Noctis, Final Fantasy XV's DLC packs will make each of his roadtripping buddies  - Ignis, Gladiolus and Prompto - playable for their own adventure.
  While the game's season pass, and those packs, were announced last week, we hadn't had confirmation of the nature of each until they were listed on the game's official website (as translated by Siliconera).
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• Publisher Nordic Games rebrands as THQ Nordic

  12-08-2016 15:42
  
  Just over two years after it purchased the THQ trademark, publisher Nordic Games has rebranded as THQ Nordic....
  
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• Ubisoft Will Fart In South Park Fans’ Faces At Gamescom

  12-08-2016 15:10
  
  South Park has often riffed on real world fads with fictional products. The latest brings together South Park: The Fractured But Whole with an Oculus Rift spoof.
  The Nosulus Rift is a sensory experience like no other. In the game, the player character (the New Kid) has the power of godlike flatulence. 
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  With the Nosulus Rift, you’ll be able to sniff that power for yourself. Ubisoft says it will be offering the experience for the first time at
  
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• Blog: Tracing my troubles with Telltale Games

  12-08-2016 15:03
  
  Telltale Games was one of my favorite developers during the 00's, but today's post looks at how their structure has changed and moved away from my adventure game preference. ...
  
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• Blog: Predicting the next American President with Merica Match

  12-08-2016 13:59
  
  Can a game predict the result of the 2016 American presidential election? Shiny Shoe's new game Merica Match tries to answer the question. ...
  
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• Spider-Man Homecoming gets new The Tinkerer details and a potential new villain *SPOILERS*

  12-08-2016 13:47 via gamesradar.com
  
  We only found out yesterday that Spider-Man: Homecoming has added Orange is the New Black's Michael Chernus to its cast as master tech villain The Tinkerer, Phineas Mason,  but rumours have given us a few more details about this specific iteration of the character
  
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• Destiny: Xur weapons, gear, and location, August 12 - 14. Super Good Advice!

  12-08-2016 12:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Xur, Destiny’s weekend trader of Exotic delights, expert biographer of James Cameron, and notorious, stinking drunkard, is back
  
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• Little Nightmares looks like a suitably creepy offering from the LittleBigPlanet Vita devs

  12-08-2016 12:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Ah just what I've always wanted. To meet my childhood fears. That's the promise of Tarsier's Little...
  
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• Deus Ex Go Release Date Announced

  12-08-2016 10:55
  
  Deus Ex Go—the turn-based mobile game based in the Deus Ex universe—will be released August 18 on iOS and Android smartphones and tablets.
  The announcement came via Twitter, with Square Enix Montreal giving no information - only the sunglasses emoji.Deus Ex Go announcementLike Hitman Go and Lara Croft Go, Deux Ex Go is a translation of the console game to a mobile puzzler that takes on some of its key traits; the hack-and-swipe adventure features challenging puzzles and its
  
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• Game Design Deep Dive: Color as identity in Push Me Pull You

  12-08-2016 10:02
  
  "In a frantic local-multiplayer game, readability is hugely important. In our case, where there are two teams of two players on-screen at all time, it can be tricky to keep track of your character."...
  
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• The new Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer shows off battles galore, Rebels in action and finally, Darth Vader

  12-08-2016 04:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Aside from all those athletes achieving remarkable feats, the Rio Olympics has now given us something else to admire: the brand new Star Wars: Rogue One trailer
  
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• The new Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer shows off battles galore, Rebels in action, and Darth Vader (finally!)

  12-08-2016 04:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Aside from all those athletes achieving remarkable feats, the Rio Olympics has now given us something else to admire: the brand new Star Wars: Rogue One trailer
  
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• Don’t ask why you’d turn an Xbox One S into a laptop, just be impressed

  12-08-2016 04:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Earlier this month, Microsoft released the Xbox One S, a console that has a smaller footprint than its predecessor, but also comes ready to offer some neat additional features. However, you still need to hook up the Xbox One S to a TV set and a power supply to play games, and you can’t take it with you on the road. That’s unless you hire Eddie Zarick to build you an Xbook One S, which is exactly what you expect: an Xbox One S laptop. DON’T MISS: One of Apple’s biggest who
  
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• Crytek Showcases Gorgeous Concept Art And Gameplay For VR Game

  12-08-2016 03:47
  In a new making of video, Crytek finally pulls back the curtain and shows off its upcoming PlayStation VR title, Robinson: The Journey. The exploration-driven game, which plops you on an alien planet filled with dinosaurs, was first shown at Paris Games Week last year.In the video, Crytek's team of developers discuss the ups and downs of virtual reality development, as well as showcase a few snippets of pre-alpha gameplay and beautiful concept art. Robinson: The Journey tells the story of a boy
  
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• Pokemon World Championships Will Not Feature Pokemon Go Events

  12-08-2016 03:13
  
  The full schedule for the 2016 Pokemon World Championships has been released, along with the announcement that there will be no events centering on Niantic Labs' Pokemon Go in or around the championships.
  Additionally, organizers have announced that the Pokemon World Championships will be closed to the general public. Only those with the official badge for invited players and their families will be allowed entry. Those looking to watch coverage of the tournament will have to tune into the event'
  
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