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• Skyrim: Special Edition has cruddy audio on Xbox One, you're not imagining it

  28-10-2016 23:55 via gamesradar.com
  
  Your first level-up in Skyrim: Special Edition should be a truly special moment, but if you're an audiophile it may have been a moment of horror instead
  
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• Battlefield 1 Directors Making Female Military Movie

  28-10-2016 23:52
  
  Hummingbird, the upcoming action movie from John McClain, is moving forward at Fundamental Films, and Battlefield 1 cinematic directors Marcus Kryler and Fredrik Akerström are on board to helm.
  According to Deadline, Kryler and Akerström are making the jump from video games to film with this new directorial gig, which tells the story of a female black ops assassin who learns she's a "new breed of weapon" and not merely a gun for hire.
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• Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 Review

  28-10-2016 23:25
  
  Die-hard Dragon Ball Z fans finally have a game to feel good about. It might stumble a bit along the way with some odd design choices and rough edges, but Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2’s mix of fan service, fast-paced arena brawling, and long-term questing and progression scratch a long-standing itch for series fans.
  The unique and ambitious concept of the Xenoverse series really sets it apart from the rank and file of licensed anime games. It’s a three-dimensional arena brawler seated wit
  
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• Gears of War 4 gets its first kinda-free DLC maps on November 8

  28-10-2016 22:14 via gamesradar.com
  
  Gears of War 4 will get its first two DLC maps on November 8, Microsoft and The Coalition have confirmed, and you'll only need to pay if you want to play them early or in private matches
  
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• Pokemon Sun & Moon is already set to be Nintendo's biggest game launch ever

  28-10-2016 22:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Quick, what do you think the most popular Nintendo game ever is? Is it a Mario title? Maybe the much-loved Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time? Well, if we're taking Nintendo at its word, it may be a game that hasn't even come out yet: Pokemon Sun & Moon
  
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• OnePlay: We're not responsible for Desura dev debts

  28-10-2016 21:35
  
  After news of OnePlay's purchase of Desura and other assets went public, the company claimed via Twitter that it had not assumed responsibility for the debt former owner Bad Juju owes developers....
  
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• No Man's Sky Dev Twitter Account Allegedly Hacked

  28-10-2016 21:34
  
  The Twitter account for No Man's Sky developer Hello Games was allegedly hacked this morning, including tweets and emails attributed to Hello Games staff calling the studio's latest game "a mistake."
  Tweets from Hello Games founder Sean Murray, as well as the Hello Games account have since said the hack has been resolved and that Hello Games has resumed control of its accounts. A report by Kotaku claims that the initial tweet and subsequent statements sent out to several press outlets were indee
  
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• GTA Online's Halloween event is live and you need to buy a zombie hearse right now

  28-10-2016 21:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  Do you already have a special Halloween hearse to drive around in GTA Online? No? You need a special Halloween hearse
  
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• Don't Miss: Alien: Isolation and the evolution of horror simulators

  28-10-2016 20:51
  
  Amnesia and Soma developer Thomas Grip recounts the history of games that invoke terror in players and how Alien: Isolation successfully captured the spirit of a 'horror simulator' game. ...
  
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• Amazon opens Texas office to support its Lumberyard game engine

  28-10-2016 20:34
  
  Amazon is expanding the team working on its free Lumberyard game engine and setting up a new team to work on the system in its Austin, Texas office....
  
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• The Walking Dead clip reveals Carol and Morgan's trek through The Kingdom

  28-10-2016 20:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Walking Dead opened season 7 in spectacularly gory fashion
  
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• First Gears of War 4 DLC Multiplayer Maps Release Date Announced

  28-10-2016 19:45
  
  The first set of DLC multiplayer maps for Gears of War 4 will come out on November 1 to Season Pass holders, developer The Coalition announced today. It will be accessible in public playlists on November 8.
  The Coalition is bringing back two "Legacy Maps," Checkout and Drydock. The first of which takes players to Cole's hometown 25 years after the events of Gears of War 3, now being reclaimed by nature. Taking place in the town's supermarket, players will be able to fight through stores, checkou
  
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• Follow Gamasutra's VRDC coverage right here!

  28-10-2016 19:44
  
  The inaugural standalone Virtual Reality Developers Conference is happening next week! Follow Gamasutra's on-site coverage on our special event page....
  
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• Kingdom Hearts 3 gets two new screenshots confirming Mt Olympus and Drive Forms

  28-10-2016 19:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  Few games are as shrouded in secrecy as Kingdom Hearts 3 currently is
  
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• A look at the indie game development scene in Saudi Arabia

  28-10-2016 19:38
  
  "Local devs have found each other and organized gatherings, and have also connected with other dev communities in the MENA (Middle East/North Africa) region."...
  
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• Kongregate expanding its PC presence by publishing games to Steam

  28-10-2016 19:35
  
  Developers now have the ability to track metrics and share player save data across web, mobile, and Steam releases with Kongregate's updated SDK. ...
  
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• ‘Borderlands: The Handsome Collection’ is free on Xbox One — if you act fast

  28-10-2016 18:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Borderlands: The Handsome Collection is currently free on Xbox One through the console's 'Free Play Days' promotion. The collection includes both Borderlands 2 and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!
  
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• Take a first look at Alien: Covenant's newest creatures - these are some ugly xenomorphs

  28-10-2016 18:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  I don't know about you, but ever since Alien: Covenant wrapped back in July, I've been waiting for a teaser trailer
  
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• Even Mads Mikkelsen doesn't know if Darth Vader is in Star Wars: Rogue One much

  28-10-2016 18:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  Star Wars: Rogue One is “going back to the beginning,” but Mads Mikkelsen said he didn’t get to meet Darth Vader when we sat down with him to talk about his new movie Doctor Strange
  
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• Return to Skyrim with lead programmer Brett Douville today at 3PM EST

  28-10-2016 18:10
  
  Gamasutra is jumping back into Skyrim this time with former Bethesda Studios lead programmer Brett Douville. Come join our stream today at 3PM EST and ask questions about the game!...
  
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• At GDC, see how Agents of Mayhem was crafted using physically-based rendering

  28-10-2016 18:07
  
  At GDC 2017 James Taylor of Deep Silver Volition will showcase just how you can use physically-based rendering to make a strikingly stylized (and not at all photo-realistic) game like Agents of Mayhem....
  
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• Suicide Squad concept art reveals it was once more closely tied to Justice League

  28-10-2016 17:43 via gamesradar.com
  
  Movies go through many iterative changes before they hit the big screen, so perhaps it's of little surprise that Suicide Squad looked quite different in early concept art, with a more psychedelic Enchantress and a Joker with a glasgow smile
  
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• Tomb Raider devs recall the highs and lows of creating a game icon

  28-10-2016 17:41
  
  In an frank and revealing interview, the team behind the first Tomb Raider games have opened up about the highest highs and lowest lows of their development journey. ...
  
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• Sony continues its legacy of weird ads with this PlayStation 4 Pro gem

  28-10-2016 17:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sony's latest PlayStation 4 Pro advertisement is among the stranger commercials the brand has ever used, taking players back to a simpler time that apparently still had modern gaming systems.
  
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• Pokemon Sun and Moon Are Nintendo's Most Pre-Ordered Games, Ever

  28-10-2016 17:18
  
  According to a Nintendo press release, Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon are now the most pre-ordered games in the company's history. Meanwhile, the game's 3DS demo has been downloaded over 3.5 million times.
  No figures were given for exactly how much the games have been pre-ordered, but Nintendo included some favourable-looking charts in Tatsumi Kimishima's presentation to investors yesterday (below). Nintendo also notes that the demo is now officially “the most downloaded d
  
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• Square Enix Teasing New Final Fantasy Mobile Game

  28-10-2016 17:17
  
  Square Enix has just launched a teaser site for a new Final Fantasy game for iOS and Android.
  The site (spotted by Gematsu) includes a countdown that currently reads "5 days," as well as a note from Chrono Trigger director and Final Fantasy IV lead designer Takashi Tokita, which says: "Final Fantasy is about characters filled with human appeal. About dramatic battles of anger and sadness. And more than anything, we should not forget that it is about fantasy."
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• Watch Us Play the Hitman Hokkaido Season Finale Live

  28-10-2016 17:05
  
  If you think ghouls and ghosts are the scariest things stalking the streets on Halloween, think again.
  The steely stare of a certain follically challenged Agent will glaring from screens on Monday 31 October, when Hitman Episode 6 launches.
  For one final time Rory Powers and Joe Skrebels will be livestreaming all the action from season finale of IO Interactive's episodic stealth game. Join them as they visit the gardens of Hokkaido, Japan, and make them altogether less Zen.
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• Blog: Coding great scrolling lists for your game

  28-10-2016 17:03
  
  "Scrolling such a huge container full of elements has a great impact on the game's UI performance. The FPS drop rate was unacceptable, so we had to think of a more sophisticated solution." ...
  
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• The Not-So-Big Easy: A historian discusses Mafia III

  28-10-2016 16:37
  
  Historian Bob Whitaker uses the work of Professor Leonard Moore to discuss the history behind Mafia III, from the Civil Rights Movement to the Cold War....
  
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• Top 25 games companies made $34.5B in the first half of 2016

  28-10-2016 15:56
  
  Chinese internet giant Tencent, which will soon complete its $8.6 billion acquisition of Supercell, led the charge with half year revenues of $5.3 billion....
  
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• Breath of the Wild May Reflect the Original Legend of Zelda

  28-10-2016 15:50
  
  All Zelda games are cut from the same green cloth to some extent, but Nintendo' been pointing out some very specific connections between 1986's The Legend of Zelda and the upcoming The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
  In a new blog post titled Hyrule: Then and Now, four connections between the games are singled out. Some are more obvious - the fact that both begin with a mysterious old man offering you items to help you survive, or that both include rafting across rivers.
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• Blog: Lessons learned from making a game with zero planning

  28-10-2016 15:24
  
  "The lack of planning made [it] easy to make 'just one more feature', that in the end, either didn't make it to the final build or took way too much effort for what its worth." ...
  
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• Nintendo Working to Make Super Mario Run as Popular as Pokemon Go

  28-10-2016 15:00
  
  Tatsumi Kimishima, president of Nintendo, has bold intentions going into the launch of Super Mario Run.
  Super Mario Run is an upcoming autorunner game coming to iOS which was announced during last month's Apple Event. It'll be coming to 150 countries on iPhone and iPad some time this December.
  Kimishima told Bloomberg: "In terms of expectations, we all saw what happened when we delivered Pokemon Go. And honestly I was quite surprised by it myself. There's no doubt that more people are using smar
  
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• Everything You Need to Know About Dishonored 2

  28-10-2016 13:10
  
  Four years after Corvo first blinked onto our screens, Dishonored is back with more reasons for revenge, more paranormal powers, and more honour being dissed.
  But while an assassin’s occupational hazards never change, a whole lot else certainly has. To bring you up to speed on the next chapter in the Empire of the Isles’ history, here’s everything we’ve learned about Dishonored 2.
  Just a year after Arkane Studios whipped the cloak off the first Dishonored game, in 2013 it
  
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• Nintendo Will Not Discontinue 3DS After Switch Release

  28-10-2016 13:02
  
  Good news for 3DS owners, Nintendo has no plans to discontinue the 3DS following the release of the Nintendo Switch.
  In an interview with Bloomberg, Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima explained the current situation when questioned as to why the company decided to combine household and portable gaming:
  “We didn't just want a successor to the Wii U or the 3DS,” says Kimishima. “So our original concept was, ‘What kind of new experience can we create?’ And what we sh
  
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• Has Jorah Mormont cured his you-know-what in Game of Thrones season 7? (spoilers)

  28-10-2016 12:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  With Game of Thrones now racing ahead of the A World of Ice and Fire books, season 7 will be packed with surprises for show and novel devotees alike
  
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• Destiny: Xur weapons, gear, and location, Oct 28 - 30. Bad Juju!

  28-10-2016 12:03 via gamesradar.com
  
  Xur, Destiny’s travelling weekend exotic trader, galactically lauded but highly particular seafood chef (he only does molluscs), and desperately pedantic Doctor Who fan, is back
  
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• Final Fantasy 15 has gone gold and celebrates with a new trailer

  28-10-2016 11:45 via gamesradar.com
  
  Square Enix has announced that Final Fantasy 15 has gone gold – i
  
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• WWE 2K17 patch out now, fixes save data wipe and Universe mode tag-team bug

  28-10-2016 11:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  On Wednesday GR+ reported that a WWE 2K17 patch was on the way to fix a bug which can wipe user save data – and sure enough, it's now live on both PS4 and Xbox One
  
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• Postmortem: Fatshark's Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide

  28-10-2016 10:03
  "I would guess that 70 percent of all games today are released too early. Luckily we had the funds to allow us to delay the release." Martin Wahlund, CEO of Fatshark. ...
  
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• Thor: Ragnarok wrap video reveals a first look at Tessa Thompson's Valkyrie

  28-10-2016 04:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  Since production started on Thor: Ragnarok the cast and crew have made one thing abundantly clear: they're having, like, the best time EVER
  
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• Take a first look at Thor: Ragnarok's Valkyrie in on-set wrap video

  28-10-2016 04:12 via gamesradar.com
  
  Since production started on Thor: Ragnarok the cast and crew have made one thing abundantly clear: they're having, like, the best time EVER
  
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• Nintendo's Mysterious 3DS Game Is Coming to Japan in 2016

  28-10-2016 03:39
  
  Nintendo has a new game coming out in Japan this holiday called Miitopia, and the Japanese video game maker hasn’t spilled many details explaining what this new game is.Miitopia was first announced at the close of a Japanese Nintendo Direct presentation back in  September. And the message was simple: Miitopia is a new holiday game coming to Nintendo 3DS. It will be sold as a retail game and as a digital download on the 3DS eShop. No other specifics were offered at the time.
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• Doctor Strange's Infinity War appearance *might* involve another Marvel superteam

  28-10-2016 02:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Doctor Strange isn't even out yet in North America and talk has turned to a potential sequel
  
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• Doctor Strange's Avengers: Infinity War appearance *might* involve another Marvel superteam

  28-10-2016 02:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Doctor Strange isn't even out yet in North America and talk has turned to a potential sequel
  
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• Boston devs team up to sell game bundles for child cancer charity

  28-10-2016 01:45
  
  Instead of the typical customer-defined percentage, a flat 60 percent of all proceeds from sales of the bundle will be funneled to the children's cancer charity St. Baldrick's Foundation. ...
  
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• PlayStation Vue now available on select Android TVs, will hit PC, Mac soon

  28-10-2016 01:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  While Sling TV may still have the upper hand in terms of availability, PlayStation Vue is catching up. The service is now available on select Android TV devices and the Nvidia Shield. It will be coming to the PC and Mac in the near future.
  
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• PlayStation Vue has finally come to Android TV devices; PC, Mac are next

  28-10-2016 01:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  While Sling TV may still have the upper hand in terms of availability, PlayStation Vue is catching up. The service is now available on select Android TV devices and the Nvidia Shield. It will be coming to the PC and Mac in the near future.
  
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• With Titanfall 2, Respawn makes a show of ditching paid map packs

  28-10-2016 01:05
  
  Respawn's mech-enhanced shooter Titanfall 2 is out this week, so the studio is hyping its plan to break with common practice and make all multiplayer maps/game modes it adds to the game free....
  
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• Online game shop OnePlay snaps up Desura and other Bad Juju assets

  28-10-2016 00:09
  
  Devs should note that OnePlay aims to get game distribution platform Desura and the game bundle services Indie Royale/Daily Royale "back up and running" by the first quarter of next year....
  
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