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• Destiny: Rise of Iron's Wrath of the Machine Raid was beaten in two hours

  23-09-2016 23:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Call my bookie; here I was betting that Destiny: Rise of Iron's Wrath of the Machine Raid would go unconquered for three hours, and then Clan Redeem had to go and complete it in just over two
  
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• Destiny: Rise of Iron's Wrath of the Machine Raid stood undefeated for a whole two hours

  23-09-2016 23:39 via gamesradar.com
  
  Call my bookie; here I was betting that Destiny: Rise of Iron's Wrath of the Machine Raid would go unconquered for three hours, and then Clan Redeem had to go and complete it in just over two
  
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• 5 ways Star Citizen proves more crowdfunding isn't always a good thing

  23-09-2016 23:20 via gamesradar.com
  
  Star Citizen is the most crowdfunded thing, er, ever (unless you count actual charitable donations, I guess)
  
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• Report: Nintendo’s NX has entered production

  23-09-2016 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  We're in the home stretch of 2016, and it's been a busy couple of months for the video game industry. Microsoft brought HDR gaming and 4K video to the fore with the Xbox One S in August . Sony responded with a console refresh of its own in September, along with the announcement that it would launch the first ever 4K gaming console, the PlayStation 4 Pro , in November. All this time, Nintendo has been eerily silent. DON'T MISS:  A new Pokemon Go update is about to be released, but
  
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• Get a job: Cryptic Studios is hiring a Character Artist

  23-09-2016 22:52
  The Star Trek Online dev is hiring an artist to work closely with the rest of the team at its Los Gatos, CA studio and contribute to creating creatures, weapons, armor and costumes in its games....
  
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• Street Fighter V Patch Adds Potentially Dangerous Files for PC Players

  23-09-2016 22:50
  
  The September update that rolled out today for Street Fighter V had some unexpected surprises for PC players.
  Reddit users discovered the patch planted a "Capcom.sys" file in the System32 folder. A kernel-level implant like this opens up backdoors within your machine, which could potentially allow any outside user to access and remotely control your machine.
  Those who updated to the new patch were reporting the application acquiring elevated privileges, and even a few blue screens of death.
  
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• Insomniac, Polytron React to Oculus Controversy

  23-09-2016 22:41
  
  In light of recent revelations around Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, several indie developers have spoken out, with some even announcing they will no longer support Oculus Rift.
  Insomniac Games, currently working on three games for the Oculus Rift, gave IGN the following statement:
  "Insomniac Games condemns all forms of hate speech. While everyone has a right to express his or her political opinion, the behavior and sentiments reported do not reflect the values of our company. We are also confide
  
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• Don't Miss: 20 Atari games every designer should play

  23-09-2016 22:25
  
  Check out this classic 2008 feature from Gamasutra about 20 timeless Atari games showcasing intriguing mechanics or design decisions that modern game developers should study and learn from....
  
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• Blog: How to show your indie game at any expo

  23-09-2016 22:19
  
  A general and practical guide guide on how to show your indie game at any expo, including tips on how to prepare your booth, but also your build....
  
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• Duncan Jones' Mute is part of same movie-verse as Moon, starts shooting next week

  23-09-2016 21:44 via gamesradar.com
  
  Duncan Jones has been trying to get Mute going for over a decade
  
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• 11 places you've seen the type of "hackers" in this Watch Dogs 2 trailer before

  23-09-2016 20:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  I love hackers. Or rather, I love Hollywood's idea of hackers. They're always these tough dudes (usu ...
  
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• Devs raise money for indie collective Juegos Rancheros via itch.io bundle

  23-09-2016 20:37
  
  Fantastic Arcade is happening next week in Austin, Texas, and now a posse of high-profile indie devs are selling copies of games they'll be debuting at the Arcade in a new bundle on itch.io. ...
  
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• It remake wraps production with terrifying jack-in-the-box Pennywise image

  23-09-2016 20:34 via gamesradar.com
  
  Years of development troubles are over: the It remake is in the can
  
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• New No Man’s Sky Patch Released

  23-09-2016 19:50
  
  Hello Games has released patch 1.09 for No Man’s Sky on PS4 and PC.
  As revealed on the developer’s official site, the patch includes more than 30 bug fixes addressing menu improvements, galaxy generation changes, recovering corrupted save files, and much more.
  You can find the full list of patch notes for version 1.09 in our No Man’s Sky wiki.
  This follows a series of patches Hello has been working on since the launch of No Man’s Sky. In a development update posted earlie
  
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• Facebook, Intel come out on top at AI-only Doom deathmatch battle royale

  23-09-2016 19:45
  
  The folks behind Doom-based AI research platform VizDoom released results of a competition to see who can build the best Doom-playing AI -- and the winning teams were from Facebook and Intel. ...
  
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• Q& A: Implementing and balancing traversal mechanics in Grow Up

  23-09-2016 19:35
  
  "We had a vision of an unbounded planet very early on, a place where BUD could explore a world from any angle in any way without linearity." ...
  
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• What's The Difference Between Pokemon Sun and Moon?

  23-09-2016 18:57
  
  See which Pokemon you'll likely encounter and more in each version of Pokemon Sun and Moon.
  
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• Rise of Iron: How to Get a New Exotic Weapon

  23-09-2016 18:57
  
  Here's how to unlock the We Found a Rifle quest and receive a rare Khvostov rifle in the Rise of Iron expansion for Destiny.
  
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• Destiny: Rise of Iron SIVA Cluster Locations

  23-09-2016 18:57
  
  This is where to find the Clovis Bray, Iron Lords and Fallen dormant SIVA fragments in the Rise of Iron expansion in Destiny.
  
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• Destiny: How to Solve the Iron Temple Easter Egg

  23-09-2016 18:57
  
  Play the bells in Felwinter Peak to unlock the Sing the Iron Song achievement in the Rise of Iron expansion for Destiny.
  
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• 50 New Dishonored 2 Achievements Revealed

  23-09-2016 18:57
  
  (Spoilers) If you want to unlock every achievement in Dishonored 2, you'll need to pull off some pretty fancy moves and more.
  
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• DICE Outlines Battlefield 1 EA Access Plans

  23-09-2016 18:31
  EA/Origin Access members get first crack at each release from the publisher, but don't always get full access to the title for that first trial. That looks to be the case with Battlefield 1 as well. 
  Today EA outlined the content being made available to subscribers on October 13, which includes five maps, four modes, and two of the single-player missions. EA/Origin Access members test to test out Rush, Operations, Domination, and the recently repaired Conquest mode on the St. Quentin
  
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• New Mafia 3 trailer is all about weapons, and the very not-nice things you'll do with them

  23-09-2016 18:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  Mafia 3 is a game about violent criminals. And what would a violent criminal be without a ludicrous...
  
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• Power Rangers movie casts Trainwreck's Bill Hader as robot sidekick Alpha 5

  23-09-2016 18:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  While the Power Rangers themselves will be played by newcomers in next year's reboot, the movie also has some great supporting talent in Bryan Cranston and Elizabeth Banks
  
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• Get expert advice on implementing great VR hand-tracking at VRDC

  23-09-2016 18:12
  
  Veteran game developer Matt Newport is now chief technology officer at VR firm Osso VR, and at VRDC he'll be running down the finer points of great, accurate hand-tracking in VR game and experiences....
  
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• The Nintendo NX Has A Huge Fan In Ubisoft's CEO

  23-09-2016 17:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  We still have no idea what the Nintendo NX looks like, what it does, or how it’ll work, although more and more, we’re learning that the rumors it’s some sort of portable/console hybrid seem to have some truth to them. And, apparently, the console has a pretty big, and very important, fan in Yves Guillemot, the CEO of Ubisoft.
  
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• Ubisoft CEO teases Nintendo NX impressions

  23-09-2016 17:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Constrained by the fact that Nintendo had announced the console as well as its intention to release it in March 2017, and against the backdrop of the common assumption that the NX will blend traditions from handheld and home console gaming, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot was nonetheless effervescent in his praise for the in-development machine as it exists today. It signals a potential change in home hardware fortunes for the Japanese console giant, which Guillemot acknowledged.
  
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• Oops: Nintendo accidentally releases 'Paper Mario: Color Splash' early

  23-09-2016 17:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nintendo appears to have accidentally released Paper Mario: Sticker Star early, as digital buyers were able to gain access to the full game through the eShop last night. The incident appears to have been limited to North America.
  
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• 'Exclusive' Titanfall 2 Multiplayer Mode Part of New Promotion

  23-09-2016 17:32
  
  UPDATE: EA sends along clarification that, "Players will also earn Coliseum tickets by playing multiplayer. The Mountain Dew and Buffalo Wild Wings promotions are just another way for fans to get tickets to Coliseum mode."
  ORIGINAL STORY: US restaurant chain Buffalo Wild Wings has teamed up with EA for a Titanfall 2 promotion.
  Participants who eat at one of the 1175 US locations between October 28 and the end of November 2016, will receive access to an "exclusive" Titanfall 2 multiplayer mode an
  
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• Open the pod bay doors and join us for a developer stream of Event[0]

  23-09-2016 17:30
  
  I can't let you do that Dave. But I can let you join us for a stream of Event[0] today at 3PM EST on our new Twitch channel, where we'll be interviewing the developers of the new AI conversation game....
  
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• Meet Your DedSec Hacker Posse In Latest Watch Dogs 2 Trailer

  23-09-2016 17:30
  Are hackers nihilist anarchists or social revolutionaries? Depends on who you are talking about. The cast of Watch Dogs 2 certainly looks to span the spectrum. 
  Today Ubisoft released a new story trailer that introduces us to the colorful crew that protagonist Marcus Halloway runs with. Their primary target is once again the Blume Corporation, the all-seeing, all-knowing keepers of data on the vast majority of American citizens. We also get a glimpse of the Chief Technology Officer standin
  
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• Frictional's existential horror game Soma sells 450K, turns profit

  23-09-2016 17:24
  
  "We spent over five years making our, by far, most ambitious game ever. We also spent quite a lot of money on various outsourcing such as voice acting, 3D models and animations." ...
  
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• PR crises and insecure AI: This week in video game blogging

  23-09-2016 17:07
  
  This week, guest curator Taylor Hidalgo brings together some developers' perspectives shared in the world of games blogging....
  
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• Now that Batman VR is done, Rocksteady says it can make its "dream game"

  23-09-2016 17:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Rocksteady, developers of the Batman: Arkham games (save for Arkham Origins and any of the mobile spin-offs), is ready to part ways with the caped crusader now that its work on Batman: Arkham VR is complete
  
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• Today is the last day to submit talks for the Summits and VRDC at GDC 2017!

  23-09-2016 16:58
  
  GDC organizers want to remind you that today is the last day to propose a talk for one of the Game Developers Conference 2017 Summits or the VR-focused VRDC at GDC 2017!...
  
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• Firaxis Shares Civilization VI System Requirements

  23-09-2016 16:54
  Is your PC up to the task of taking a civilization from the stone age and into space? You can find out today, as Firaxis finally revealed the system requirements for the latest entry in the amazing strategy series. 
  Here are the modest minimum and more strenuous recommended requirements: To read more about how Civilization VI differs from its predecessors, read our latest hands-on preview. The strategy game comes to PC on October 21.
  
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• WWE 2K17 DLC includes Eddie Guerrero, Papa Shango and 18 other new characters

  23-09-2016 16:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  The already massive WWE 2K17 roster has bulked up even further with the announcement of 20 more superstars as DLC, and a load of new outfits for those already confirmed
  
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• IGN UK Podcast #350: Fear the FIFA and Forza

  23-09-2016 16:39
  
  When planning what we'd talk about in this week's podcast, there was only one thing written at the top of the Google Doc.
  "MUST ONLY TALK ABOUT THINGS BEGINNING WITH F."
  It's unclear whether this is a new fricative fixation from Alex, or whether he just noticed that a lot of things beginning with "F" have been happening lately. Either way, for your latest FIFA 16. Forza Horizon 3 and Fear the Walking Dead fixes, Alex, Rory and Alysia are on hand.
  And Rory also talks about his new Pokémon
  
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• Judge OKs Curt Schilling settlement over video game company

  23-09-2016 16:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A judge has approved a settlement with former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling over a $75 million deal with Rhode Island state that brought his failed video game company to the state. A court spokesman ...
  
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• This fan-edited Ghost in the Shell trailer is much better than the originals

  23-09-2016 16:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  We've slowly but surely become accustomed to teasers for teaser trailers, and earlier this week Ghost in the Shell took that concept to the nth degree with five 10-15 second videos
  
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• Ubisoft opens book publishing house to 'propel' brands forward

  23-09-2016 16:01
  
  Assassin's Creed and Watch Dogs creator Ubisoft is looking to boost its cross-media brand power with the opening of its very own publishing house, Ubisoft Publishing.   ...
  
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• Star Wars Uprising to Close

  23-09-2016 15:39
  
  Mobile ARPG title Star Wars Uprising will permanently cease operations on November 17.
  Kabam announced the shutdown plans over on its website. In-game purchases will be closing down ahead of the closure on September 22.
  “Despite the best efforts of our team here at Kabam, unfortunately, Star Wars: Uprising will soon be decommissioned,” reads the notice. On November 17th, 2016, all Star Wars: Uprising servers will be shutting down permanently. As part of this shutdown, we will be shut
  
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• Kabam pulls the plug on struggling Star Wars: Uprising

  23-09-2016 15:15
  
  Kabam's free-to-play action RPG Star Wars: Uprising has been canceled and pulled from the iOS and Android app stores. ...
  
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• Crashing Season: A story of puppies, sweat, and tears

  23-09-2016 15:05
  
  Making mobile games is a journey through sweat, tears and joy. In this blog post, Finnish mobile game company Koukoi Games shares its story....
  
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• The Walking Dead season 7 cast get eerie new character portraits

  23-09-2016 14:35 via gamesradar.com
  
  The countdown to The Walking Dead's seventh season continues to dwindle, and the latest reminder that the show's return is just a month away has come in the form of a slew of character portraits (via Entertainment Weekly, Variety, TV Guide, and CBR)
  
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• Destiny: Rise of Iron hub - everything Guardians need to know (updated daily)

  23-09-2016 14:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  Destiny's Rise Of Iron has, er, risen! Here's where you'll find all our newest and hottest Destiny stuff, from tips to news, to gameplay, to secrets and more
  
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• Here’s how to reach the top of Felwinter Peak in Destiny: Rise Of Iron

  23-09-2016 13:50 via gamesradar.com
  
  Destiny: Rise of Iron’s new social space, Felwinter Peak, is experiencing a huge rise in the number of people falling, or more accurately jumping, off cliffs
  
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• Someone Made No Man's Sky Inside Classic Doom

  23-09-2016 13:25
  
  No Man's Sky took years to be finished, but it subsequently inspired No Guy's Sky - a Doom mod that took just three weeks to make.
  Modder Robert Prest worked on the project by himself, taking plenty of code from DoomZ, another mod he is making based on DayZ.
  Everything in No Guy's Sky is randomly generated, including "scenery, sky, floor, plans and aliens," says Prest on his website (where those who want to give it a try can find installation instructions).
  As you can see from the video, yo
  
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• Batman VR Complete - Rocksteady Now Looking to Make Its 'Dream Game'

  23-09-2016 13:21
  
  Rocksteady Games says Batman: Arkham VR is completed and has gone gold, while also shedding some light on what comes next for the creators of the Arkhamverse.
  In an interview with Eurogamer, producer Dax Ginn said the following:
  "We submittedlast week which was an awesome experience. One of the developers celebrated the game 'going gold' by dressing up in a gold spandex suit and bringing in a golden boom box.”
  As for what comes next, that’s still being decided. Ginn explains Rockstea
  
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• Destiny: Xur weapons, gear, and location, September 23 - 25: Transversive Steps!

  23-09-2016 13:13 via gamesradar.com
  
  Xur, Destiny’s weekend Exotic trader, intergalactic street art pioneer, and active disliker of stick insects (he wouldn’t kill one, but damn he finds them unnaturally creepy, which is rich for a guy with a face made of smoke and tentacles) is back, for the first time since the Rise of Iron expansion landed
  
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