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• The release date for Nintendo NX and Zelda: Breath of the Wild might have just leaked via… amiibo

  16-09-2016 23:28 via gamesradar.com
  
  A release date slip-up on Nintendo of Europe's amiibo websites may have just revealed when Nintendo NX and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild are coming out
  
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• Zelda: Breath of the Wild Amiibo Release Date Possibly Outed by Nintendo Europe Site

  16-09-2016 23:10
  
  The source code of Nintendo's European websites has possibly revealed the release date of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's amiibo figures.
  According to data in several Nintendo of Europe sites, as originally spotted on Reddit, the three Breath of the Wild amiibo are labeled in the code with a release date of March 4, 2017. IGN confirmed the appearance of this date in the site's source code and on the U.K. and French websites, as seen in the images below:
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• 11 Photos of the Monster Hunter Stories Amiibo

  16-09-2016 22:58
  
  Capcom has big plans for Monster Hunter Stories. The RPG-spinoff of the Monster Hunter series is a fairly deep game that retains core fundamentals from the main games. But it's mostly being marketed as a kids property, much like Pokemon, in Japan. It has an anime in the works and lots of kid-friendly merchandise including, you guessed it, amiibo made in collaboration with Nintendo.
  We pressed our faces up to the glass display case at Tokyo Game Show 2016 and took a bunch of pictures ju
  
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• New Dead Rising 4 trailer is determined to make you hate shopping malls

  16-09-2016 22:42 via gamesradar.com
  
  Frank West, freelance photojournalist and hero of the original Dead Rising, is back for Dead Rising 4
  
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• Game Scoop!: Is This the Last Delay for The Last Guardian?

  16-09-2016 22:19
  
  Welcome back to Game Scoop!, IGN's weekly video game talk show. This week we're discussing The Last Guardian, BioShock, open-world games, and more. Watch the video above or download the podcast below.
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• Ubisoft's giving Watch Dogs 2 away free to the best IRL hackers

  16-09-2016 21:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Watch Dogs 2 is a game about hackers. Major League Hacking is an organization that puts on and promo ...
  
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• Star Wars Battlefront's Death Star DLC will blow this thing and go home on Sept. 20

  16-09-2016 21:32 via gamesradar.com
  
  Star Wars Battlefront's Death Star DLC will arrive on Tuesday, September 20
  
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• Yakuza 6 Won't Have Loading Screens

  16-09-2016 21:30
  
  With development coming to an end and the game due to hit shelves in Japan on December 8, Yakuza series creator Toshihiro Nagoshi has told IGN Japan that he hopes fans will appreciate loading-free gameplay in the next Yakuza game, titled Ryu ga Gotoku 6: Inochi no Uta for its Japanese release, the most ambitious entry in the series to date.
  “We’ve worked hard to make this game completely seamless,” he said. “You can engage in the central adventure, get into battles, watch
  
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• Metro: Redux Developer Teasing New Game

  16-09-2016 21:14
  
  Developer 4A Games, the studio behind Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light, is starting to hint at the team's next project.
  On Facebook and Twitter, 4A Games has posted two different close-up pictures (seen below) of a hand from the game. While it's had to glean too much from the photos, they appear to tease a sci-fi shooter.
  Now this isn't the first time 4A Games has talked about the studio's next project. Back in 2014, 4A Games' chief technical officer Oles Shishkovstov said the team's next g
  
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• GTA Online has 50% discounts on tanks and other military vehicles this week GO GO GO

  16-09-2016 20:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  Do you own a tank in Grand Theft Auto Online? If your answer was anything but an enthusiastic "yes", your course of action from now through Thursday, September 22 should be clear: buy one while they and the rest of Warstock Cache & Carry's entire stock is on sale for 50 percent off
  
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• Daredevil's Vincent D'Onofrio confirms he'll be back as Kingpin...but when?

  16-09-2016 18:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  For many, Wilson Fisk - better known to comic book fans as The Kingpin - is the best villain the Marvel Cinematic Universe has produced so far, and with good reason
  
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• Pokemon Go Plus Restocks Happening Today

  16-09-2016 18:52
  
  UPDATE: Pokemon Go Plus is no longer available on GameStop's site (though it may be available in-stores), and is out of stock directly on Amazon (but available from third-party sellers).
  Pokemon Go Plus is currently in stock and available now at multiple retailers, including Amazon and GameStop.
  Available for $34.99, the Go Plus accessory can be purchased, as of publishing time, via Amazon, with Prime shipping available, as well as on GameStop, where users can order online or check for in-store
  
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• The studio behind Quantum Break, Alan Wake, and Max Payne is shoot dodging into multiplayer

  16-09-2016 18:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Remedy Entertainment is known for single-player storytelling, but one of its next projects is going for co-op multiplayer
  
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• Sega Once Considered a Yakuza Game Set Outside Japan

  16-09-2016 18:30
  
  Yakuza series creator Toshihiro Nagoshi has told IGN Japan that he once considered setting an installment of the hit franchise in a city outside of Japan.
  “We have considered it, because there was a feeling that we’d like the Yakuza series to be better known overseas,” he said, explaining that taking the story out of Japan might help players in other cultures connect with it better.
  Nagoshi continued: “But the idea disappeared right away. The series was originally intende
  
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• Nioh Might Be the Best Dark Souls Clone, and That’s Okay

  16-09-2016 18:29
  
  Director Fumihiko Yasuda isn’t afraid to acknowledge comparisons of his new action RPG, called Nioh, to developer From Software’s beloved Dark Souls series. During a presentation at Tokyo Game Show, Yasuda was asked how he feels about the similarities between the two and what makes his game different. “I can’t say that we don’t know about Dark Souls,” he admitted, “That would be a massive lie. We’ve had some influences from them.”“I wou
  
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• Win Revenger by Alastair Reynolds

  16-09-2016 18:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  One of the leading lights of British hard SF is dipping a toe into the waters of Young Adult fiction, with a tale of space pirates
  
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• Romance in VR Is as Weird as You Think It Is

  16-09-2016 18:01
  
  While action and adventure games in VR have to overcome motion sickness and limited movement for immersion, romantic VR games have the challenge of not making the player feel awkward. At Tokyo Game Show 2016, a virtual man pinned me to a chair, I sat in an elegant bath with an anime girl version of Augustus, and did many more weird things.
  Dating sims like Hatoful Boyfriend or games with dating elements like the Mass Effect or Persona series give you choices in your romance, but the relationship
  
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• Win a Pokemon Go Plus

  16-09-2016 17:50
  
  Elite Pokemon Go trainers everywhere are rejoicing at today's release of Pokemon Go Plus. If you haven't managed to get your hands on one, fear not! We have five units to give away. If you're lucky enough to win one of these, here's how to use one:
  Some of your Pokemon Go mainstays will turn up looking a little different in the upcoming Pokemon Sun and Moon. We want you to tell us which of the Alola-form Pokemon are part of the same evolutionary chain (i.e. "A and B", "C and D", etc.):Conti
  
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• I think it's safe to call Geralt a national treasure for Poland - he's about get his own stamp

  16-09-2016 17:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Stamp collecting is for lame, old people, right? Wrong
  
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• Eventide: Slavic Fable Explores Slavic Myth Later This Month

  16-09-2016 17:17
  Eventide: Slavic Fable explores Slavic mythology under the guise of a puzzle game.
  The game will be available on Xbox One, PC, Mac, and mobile platforms on September, 23. It follows a botanist who responds to call from his grandmother and ends up in a magical world where mythological creatures live alongside humans. The game is a mix of point-and-click-style puzzles and hidden object searches.
  You can check out a trailer for the game below, as well a collection of its impressive art in the gall
  
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• Even Sony worldwide studios president Shuhei Yoshida thinks No Man's Sky's marketing messed up

  16-09-2016 17:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  Whether you feel No Man's Sky has lived up to the hype or not, there's no denying its launch was fraught with controversy
  
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• Battlefield 1's first DLC map will be free and have another armored train

  16-09-2016 17:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Battlefield 1 will get another map about two months after it comes out, EA and DICE have revealed, and you won't have to pay extra for it
  
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• The Witcher's Geralt Is Being Put on Stamps in Poland

  16-09-2016 16:56
  
  Forget your Penny Black and your Inverted Jenny, there's a new postage stamp you'll want to get your hands on.
  Damien Monnier of developer CD Projekt Red, who is currently working as lead designer on the standalone card game Gwent, posted (pun intended) an image of the stamp to Twitter.Geralt is getting his own Polish stamp O__O pic.twitter.com/EAtAUlNnmZ
  — Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) September 15, 2016
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• Annabelle 2's teaser won't help your fear of dolls thanks to Lights Out director David F. Sandberg

  16-09-2016 16:11 via gamesradar.com
  
  Don't like dolls? What is it that scares you? Those glassy eyes? Fixed grins? Ability to kill all of those who stand in their way? Annabelle, the haunted doll from James Wan's The Conjuring, got her own spin off movie in 2014 and, to be honest, it wasn't great but there's good news in the darkness
  
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• PlayStation studio head: too much was promised in ‘No Man’s Sky’

  16-09-2016 16:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  No Man's Sky will continue to evolve with new gameplay features, but PlayStation's Shuhei Yoshida thinks that Hello Games promised too much. Players have begun requesting refunds because the game is missing promised features.
  
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• Sony Boss: No Man's Sky Didn't Have 'A Great PR Strategy'

  16-09-2016 16:06
  
  President of Sony Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida has said that while he enjoyed No Man's Sky, he understands why many players felt let down by the game, and puts that down Hello Games' PR strategy.
  "I understand some of the criticisms especiallySean Murray is getting," he said to Eurogamer, "because he sounded like he was promising more features in the game from day one.
  "It wasn't a great PR strategy, because he didn't have a PR person helping him, and in the end he is an indie developer."
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• Thor: Ragnarok's director is being very coy about that potential Doctor Strange cameo

  16-09-2016 15:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  A good amount of set photos from Thor: Ragnarok made their way online a few weeks ago, and there was one particular image that got fans' attention
  
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• SFX Hot Topic: Is Hollywood overdoing the ’80s nostalgia?

  16-09-2016 15:30 via gamesradar.com
  
  It was the decade of big shoulder pads, bigger hair, Rubik’s Cubes and Margaret Thatcher
  
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• First Battlefield 1 DLC Map Detailed

  16-09-2016 15:27
  
  Battlefield 1's first DLC map will go live as part of a free update in December, developer DICE announced. The map—called Giant's Shadow—places players in the 1918 Battle of the Selle.
  Giant's Shadow takes players out of the trenches and into the "open country where a massive crashed airship casts its shadow onto the battlefield," according to a description on the Battlefield 1 website.
  "Fierce infantry and tank engagements ensue on the open ground and river banks alongside the Cateu
  
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• Latest Spider-Man: Homecoming photo could be teasing a visit to the Avengers facility

  16-09-2016 14:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  Although Spider-Man: Homecoming will definitely be focusing on Tom Holland's hero, the film will not be without its guest stars
  
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• Destiny is giving everyone sparkle pox as part of some strange ARG

  16-09-2016 13:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  Destiny has some strange things going on in the build up to Rise of Iron
  
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• Harvest Moon Creator's New Game Coming West

  16-09-2016 13:04
  
  NIS America has announced Birthdays the Beginning, the new game from Harvest Moon creator Yasuhiro Wada, is coming to Europe and North America in early 2017.
  It's described as a "sandbox game in which players create cube-shaped worlds that give rise to diverse and unique lifeforms. With careful experimentation, players can shape the geography and alter the temperature of each world to create the conditions for life and witness the birth of an entire ecosystem."
  You'll be creating worlds includin
  
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• At gamers' meet in Tokyo, absent Nintendo is talk of the town

  16-09-2016 12:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Makiko Yamazaki and Tim Kelly TOKYO (Reuters) - This week's Tokyo Game Show is one of the world's biggest draws for gamers and developers, but the talk amid the virtual reality headsets and robot arms is of the industry giant that never turns up: Nintendo Co Ltd. The Japanese firm, conservative and rarely unpredictable, has twice caught the industry by surprise in recent weeks: first, with Pokemon GO, a wildly successful augmented reality smartphone game, and, earlier this month, by stealing
  
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• Destiny: Xur weapons, gear and location, September 16 - 18. Plan C!

  16-09-2016 12:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's the final weekend before Destiny: Rise of Iron so of course his tentacled-ness is back with a blow out sale
  
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• Dishonored 2 will take you about 16-20 hours says director

  16-09-2016 12:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  Dishonored 2 director Harvey Smith has been having a few playthroughs of the game and has been tweeting it'll take you somewhere between 16-20 hours to finish
  
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• Birthdays Is An Intriguing Simulation Game From Harvest Moon’s Mastermind

  16-09-2016 11:01
  Yasuhiro Wada is best known as the creator of the Bokujō Monogatari games, which has been known as the Harvest Moon series in North America until recently. Now it goes by the name Story of Seasons, due to Natsume owning the Harvest Moon name, and Xseed taking over as publisher in English-speaking countries. Wada has since branched off from the series, and his latest project is called Birthdays The Beginnings (working title). In it, you manipulate the environment to evolve different organis
  
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• Forza Horizon 3 Is a Time Capsule for a Fading Car Culture

  16-09-2016 07:15
  
  The ute is Australia’s idiosyncratic contribution to the automotive world. Combining the comfort and increased sophistication of a coupé with an integrated cargo bed, the ‘coupé utility’ isn’t a pick-up truck.
  No, Australia didn’t invent the pick-up; they already existed. The ‘ute’, however, is something slightly different.
  The birth of the ute is folklore amongst Australian revheads. It goes that, back in 1932, a Victorian woman sent a let
  
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• IGN Presents The For Honor Black Beta

  16-09-2016 06:01
  
  IGN and Ubisoft would like to invite all budding Vikings, Samurai and Knights to take part in a battle of the ages in the For Honor Black Beta in Sydney.  Hosted by For Honor's Jason Vandenberghe, this will be a night to remember - and we have 100 double passes to give away!
  Pledge your axe, katana or broadsword to the cause, and join a team of others in 4 vs 4 mayhem on the field of battle. This third person MOBA-style combat game lets you answer the age old question; who is the mightiest
  
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• 10 High-Res Pictures of the Pokemon Go Plus

  16-09-2016 06:00
  
  The Pokemon Go Plus is out today, but we managed to get our mucky paws on one a little bit early.
  To take a closer look at the sensor and everything you get in the box, swipe through the gallery of pictures below:
  And if you want to see us unbox the device and set it up, check out this video:
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• Undertale Creator Releases Unused Music

  16-09-2016 02:37
  
  To celebrate its one year anniversary, Undertale's creator has opened up about how its success affected him, as well as releasing tracks that never made it into the final game.
  Toby Fox has written a candid blog post about the highs and lows of making a successful indie game - a game we scored a 10 back in January.
  "Not only did I not expect this level of popularity, but initially, I was afraid of it", writes Fox. "I didn’t want Undertale to become tiring for people, or become spoiled befo
  
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• Madden Topped Sales for August, No Man's Sky Was Right Behind

  16-09-2016 01:45
  
  The best-selling game for August 2016 was Madden NFL 17, followed by No Man's Sky. However, sales of No Man's Sky didn't take into account digital sales for the period, meaning only physical copies of the game were tallied in the results.
  While Madden was the top game, when compared to Madden NFL 16, spending was actually down by 3 percent, according to the report.
  The Xbox One S, already revealed by Microsoft as August 2016's top-selling console, also saw its popularity spill over to contr
  
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• No Man's Sky Player Walks Completely Around Planet

  16-09-2016 01:40
  
  One player in No Man's Sky spent two weeks circumnavigating his planet, venturing out from his ship and traveling all around the planet back to it safely.
  Steambot detailed his story on Reddit and to IGN, as well as captured the final hour of his trip as he returned to his ship and launched into space.
  "After it was done I was relieved that I could finally do something else but also a little sad that it was over. I will remember this experience fondly," Steambot told IGN about the experience, th
  
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