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• Indie Dev Proposes in Destiny With Help From Bungie

  22-10-2016 19:56
  
  Two independent game developers are celebrating their Destiny-set engagement, thanks to some help from Bungie.
  Adriel Wallick, organizer of the annual Train Jam, an event that invites game developers to create a game on the 52-hour train ride from Chicago to San Francisco in the lead up to the Game Developers Conference, proposed to her partner Rami Ismail, one-half of the independent developer Vlambeer, the studio behind Nuclear Throne and Luftrausers.
  Using some custom-made Destiny content for
  
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• How Watch Dogs 2 Addresses Player Freedom

  22-10-2016 19:13
  
  One of the big changes in Watch Dogs 2 is its emphasis on player freedom when it comes to every single mission and encounter in the game. The three main ways to play are Aggressor (guns blazing), Ghost (neither seen nor heard), and Trickster (a techno agent of chaos), and it's up to you to choose which kind of Marcus you want to play as.
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  The video above showcases a single three-minute mission, but by flipping between the various streams on the right, you’re able to control which of the
  
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• Development on The Last Guardian Is Complete

  22-10-2016 03:42
  
  UPDATE: Sony president of Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida has now confirmed the news on Twitter, writing, "I've waited a very long time to say this... The Last Guardian has gone gold! I'm so excited for you all to finally experience it."
  Development on The Last Guardian is reportedly complete.
  In a tweet that was since deleted (but was captured by Polygon), Sony Interactive Entertainment producer Jun Yoshino announced today that the PlayStation 4 exclusive has gone gold, indicating the game wil
  
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• Titanfall 2 Multiplayer: Bigger... and Better?

  22-10-2016 02:21
  
  Like the original, the duality of switching between Titanfall 2’s nimble pilots and monstrous titans is at the heart of what makes its multiplayer great. The sequel’s additions and changes, while significant, do little to distract from this brilliant gameplay loop. The pilot's ability to effortlessly traverse terrain is still remarkably fluid when the map allows for it, and titans feel like a more permanent investment thanks to rodeo changes and the advent of batteries.
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• Weekly Rewind: Nintendo Switch, Galaxy Note 7 costumes, and Eminem's take on Trump

  22-10-2016 01:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In the tech world, a lot happens in a week. So much news goes on that it's almost impossible for mere mortals with real lives to keep track of everything. That’s why we’ve compiled a quick and dirty list of the top 10 tech stories from this week.
  
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• Weekly Rewind: Google stores, Nintendo’s Switch, get used to hearing ‘LeEco’

  22-10-2016 01:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In the tech world, a lot happens in a week. So much news goes on that it's almost impossible for mere mortals with real lives to keep track of everything. That’s why we’ve compiled a quick and dirty list of the top 10 tech stories from this week.
  
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• Look how easy it would be for Nintendo to make the Switch so much hotter

  22-10-2016 01:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After months of anticipation, Nintendo finally unveiled its new console on Thursday . As expected, the console is unlike anything we've ever seen before from a major console maker, combining the raw power of a home console with "the mobility of a handheld" to let gamers bring the biggest games with them anywhere they go. Unfortunately, there's still a great deal we don't know, including the price of the Switch, the launch lineup and the color options that will be available at launch. D
  
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• Video: Sid Meier's psychology of game design

  22-10-2016 01:13
  
  "Everything you know is wrong." ...
  
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• Official Skyrim Monopoly Set Coming Next Year

  22-10-2016 00:56
  
  A new The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim–themed Monopoly board game will be released in March 2017, video game merchandiser Merchoid announced today. Pre-orders are available now on the Merchoid store.
  Skyrim Monopoly will allow players to buy and sell property around the realms of Tamriel, from creating villages in Winterhold to breaking ground on massive castles in Windhelm. In Skyrim Monopoly, players won't have to worry about dragons biting their heads off. Instead, they'll have to worry abou
  
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• The Top 25 Wii U Games

  22-10-2016 00:46
  
  Last Updated: October 21, 2016
  The countdown to Nintendo's next console has begun, but while you wait there are plenty of Nintendo Wii U games to play. After much deliberation, we've settled on a list of 25 games you should add to your Wii U library now.
  A quick note on the Top 25 Wii U Games list: The primary question this top 25 list is intended to answer is simple: "What are the 25 best games we played on Wii U?" Our choices were based on how much fun we had with the games (our primary concer
  
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• The game they play together: Two game devs get engaged in Destiny

  22-10-2016 00:31
  
  Here's a nice bit of news to cap off your week: Game dev Adriel Wallick proposed to longtime partner (and fellow dev) Rami Ismail today while they were playing Destiny together. He said yes....
  
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• No More Official Switch Announcements to Come Until 2017

  22-10-2016 00:26
  
  While Nintendo officially revealed its latest console, the Nintendo Switch, this week, it appears the company won't have more to say on the upcoming system until 2017.
  The Wall Street Journal reports that a spokesman for Nintendo confirmed no additional information about the Switch outside of its unveiling yesterday will come until next year, ahead of the console's planned March 2017 launch.
  WSJ's Takashi Mochizuki clarified that "no more official announcement would come this year on 1) game tit
  
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• Battlefield 1 Review

  22-10-2016 00:07
  
  Battlefield’s formula for large-scale, objective-driven warfare is as intense and theatrical as ever against the haunting, archaic backdrop of World War I. Battlefield 1’s single-player campaign is a short but pleasantly surprising anthology of small, human stories that does a good job spotlighting some of the key technology of the era.
  But it’s the exhilarating multiplayer that most strongly capitalizes on the potential of this old-school arsenal, bringing a number of subtle c
  
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• Call of Duty, Lawsuits & Titanfall: 45 Min. With Vince Zampella

  22-10-2016 00:00
  
  Our 45-minute chat with game industry legend Vince Zampella covers his entire career, from his early days at GameTek to Medal of Honor to Call of Duty to the lawsuit and now to Respawn and Titanfall.
  If you'd rather listen than watch, here's an audio-only download link.
  Here are a couple of clips, first of Zampella explaining one of the reasons he created Call of Duty when he founded Infinity Ward:
  And here's Zampella explaining why he has no regrets over not including a single-player campa
  
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