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• Halo 5: Guardians Reality eSports TV Series in the Works

  30-11-2016 23:57
  
  An eSports television series centered around the Microsoft-exclusive first-person shooter Halo 5: Guardians is in the works.
  According to Variety, developer 343 Industries has signed a deal with TV production company Pilgrim Media Group to develop the competition-focused reality series.
  Kiki Wolfkill, the head of Halo Transmedia at 343 Industries, expressed her excitement to be working with Pilgrim Media to "bring the intensity and extreme competition of Halo 5: Guardians eSports
  
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• Take To The 16-Bit Jungle In The First Teaser Trailer

  30-11-2016 23:20
  The sequel to 2012's Retro City Rampage is Shakedown: Hawaii, and there's a shiny new teaser trailer for it just in time for PSX.
  Retro City Rampage was a labor of love for indie developer Brian Provinciano, and the same appears true for his latest project. Shakedown: Hawaii looks like it features similar homage-heavy gameplay to the first game, with an updated look and some Metal Gear and Magnum, P.I. references thrown in for good measure. In fact, even this piece of promotional art
  
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• Former DICE Devs Announce New Free-to-Play Game

  30-11-2016 23:06
  
  Lightbulb Crew, a small developer made up in part of former DICE and Ubisoft employees, has announced Games of Glory, a top-down multiplayer team shooter for PlayStation 4 and PC.
  The small, France-based studio provided some early details in a press release Wednesday morning. Players will be able to choose between 15 characters across five general character classes, each with different skills, as you might imagine. You'll also get around 50 guns and melee weapons to choose between to boot. Battl
  
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• US Game Deals: Get a 500GB Xbox One Battlefield 1 bundle for $269 and Doom for $28

  30-11-2016 23:05 via gamesradar.com
  
  Cyber Monday has come and gone, now it's all about, erm, Wealthy Wednesday? Ok, nobody actually calls it that, but we still have a bunch of games-related savings for you
  
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• Beyond: Final Fantasy XV Was Announced Before The PS3 Was Even Out

  30-11-2016 22:30
  
  This week, Max "Farfetch'd" Scoville, Marty "Weezing" Sliva, Alanah "Snorlax" Pearce and Brian "Grimer" Altano gather round the ol' Coleman camp stove to reflect upon the long awaited release of Final Fantasy XV, which was announced over a decade ago. What were you doing in 2006? Meanwhile, Watch Dogs 2 might be GOTY material for some of us, and hey, why is it so hard to nail down a GOTY this year anyway? The Game Awards nomin
  
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• Expect Lara Croft GO on your PS4 and VIta soon

  30-11-2016 22:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  A trophy list for Lara Croft GO has been spotted by industry tipster / deals-finder extraordinaire / omniscient gamer Wario64, suggesting that the puzzle-based take on the Tomb Raider franchise will come to PS4 and Vita
  
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• ‘Pokémon Sun’ and ‘Moon’ are Nintendo of America’s fastest-selling games ever

  30-11-2016 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon are now the fastest-selling games in Nintendo of America's history, breaking the company's previous regional sales records by a significant margin less than a month after launch.
  
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• PlayStation Plus Free Games for December Revealed

  30-11-2016 21:38
  
  December's lineup of free games for PlayStation Plus subscribers has been revealed, including two cross buy titles for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita members.
  PS Plus subscribers on PS4 can download Stories: The Path of Destinies and Invisible Inc. After initially releasing on PC, Invisible Inc. is a turn-based strategy game from Klei Entertainment, the developers behind Mark of the Ninja and Don't Starve. IGN gave Invisible Inc. an 8.5 when it first released, praising the game's blend of sc
  
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• Pokemon Sun and Moon Break Nintendo Record

  30-11-2016 21:17
  
  Pokemon Sun and Moon are the fastest-selling Nintendo games ever released in the Americas.
  The 3DS games have sold 3.7 million copies combined in less than two weeks, setting a new Nintendo record. Pokemon Sun and Moon have knocked down X and Y from the top spots.
  In fact, Pokemon Sun and Moon saw an 85 percent sales increase over X and Y during the same launch period. And overall, the franchise has sold over 280 million games.
  That number could increase even more with the reported Pokemon Stars
  
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• ‘Invisible Inc.,’ ‘VVVVVV’ are among December’s PlayStation Plus freebies

  30-11-2016 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sony has announced next month's lineup of free PlayStation Plus games, revealing that subscribers will be able to download copies of Invisible Inc., VVVVVV, and other standout games throughout December, free of charge.
  
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• Which PlayStation Plus games are free in December?

  30-11-2016 20:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  Welcome to another choice month of free PS Plus games
  
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• How to Watch PlayStation Experience 2016

  30-11-2016 20:47
  
  The PlayStation Experience 2016 takes place in Anaheim, California on December 3 and 4, and IGN has you covered with everything happening at the show.
  IGN is your place to watch the PSX 2016 press conference, find out about all the biggest announcements, and get previews straight from the convention. Here’s everything you need to know about how to keep on top of the show right on IGN.
  The PlayStation Showcase, PSX’s main conference, kicks off the entire weekend, and you can watch liv
  
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• No Spider-Man PS4 Game at PSX, The Game Awards

  30-11-2016 20:39
  
  Don't expect to see the new Spider-Man PS4 game at PSX or The Game Awards this week.
  Developer Insomniac Games announced on Twitter that the PlayStation 4 exclusive will skip both events in December.
  "Hey, web-heads! We're not showing new Spider-Man PS4 content at PSX/The Game Awards, but we're hard at work on cool stuff to share in 2017," the tweet said.
  Unveiled at E3 2016, Spider-Man isn't based off the upcoming Spider-Man: Homecoming movie. Instead, the PlayStation 4 exclusive will
  
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• Get Assassin's Creed 3 on PC for Free

  30-11-2016 19:42
  
  Ubisoft will be closing out its 30th anniversary game giveaway for PC players with the American Revolution-era Assassin's Creed III. The game publisher has been celebrating its 30th by giving away a new title from its backlog each month for PC players, and it will cap the celebration off with the final game in the Desmond continuity.
  Available starting Dec. 7, you can grab a free PC copy of Assassin's Creed III provided you're an Ubisoft Club member. The offer will last for 30 days, which means
  
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• ‘Stardew Valley’ hits PS4 and Xbox One in December, Nintendo Switch port planned

  30-11-2016 19:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Stardew Valley will make its console debut in December with the launch of ports for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, but Nintendo fans will be disappointed to hear that a planned Wii U adaptation has since been put out to pasture.
  
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• First look at Alpha 5 in the Power Rangers movie is... something

  30-11-2016 19:07 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Power Rangers movie is evoking a mixed bag of responses based on its early images and trailer
  
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• Star Trek: Discovery gets first three cast members and a new alien you won't know you recognise

  30-11-2016 19:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  Star Trek: Discovery has revealed its first trio of cast members, representing Starfleet officers from the eponymous ship and beyond
  
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• The City Builder Is A Little Bit Minecraft, A Little Bit SimCity

  30-11-2016 19:00
  Developer Lion Shield is made up of Pete Angstadt and Michael Peddicord, who have worked on games like Abzu, Journey, and Spore. The two have banded together to create Kingdoms and Castles, a game that borrows heavily from the Maxis school of city-builder games.
  Although the game focuses on having you build up your town house by house, several elements can get in your way. Weather changes with the seasons (Winter can be a rough season), vikings and dragons can attack, and your population can st
  
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• Ubisoft’s VR games to support cross-platform play on Vive, Rift, PlayStation VR

  30-11-2016 18:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Publisher Ubisoft has revealed that its VR games will support cross-play across the Rift, Vive, and PlayStation VR headsets. Games announced so far have put heavy emphasis on multiplayer.
  
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• Oculus Co-Founder Sees Long Life for Traditional Consoles

  30-11-2016 18:00
  
  Despite the rapid advancement in technology, Oculus co-founder Jack McCauley believes that traditional console gaming won't be rendered obsolete anytime soon.
  When asked on the latest episode of our monthly interview show IGN Unfiltered where he sees the future of gaming headed many, many years into the future, McCauley said that pricing constraints will keep consoles relevant for a very long time.
  "It's gotta be a three or four hundred dollar console, so you're kind of strapped to tha
  
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• "A 10-second joke that gets everything right" - the Polymorph gag is The Best Bit of Warcraft: The Beginning

  30-11-2016 18:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Imagine being Duncan Jones (or any of the cast and crew), working on the Warcraft adaptation
  
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• Surprise, you can now download Netflix shows to your phone and tablet to watch offline

  30-11-2016 17:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  I dunno about you, but Netflix and my cell phone's data plan are not the best of friends
  
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• Electronic Arts: A ‘major game’ is coming to Nintendo Switch

  30-11-2016 17:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Electronic Arts executive Peter Moore announced that the publisher has a "major" title in development for the Nintendo Switch console, but stopped short of revealing exactly which game this happens to be.
  
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• Oblivion is now backwards compatible on Xbox One for all you Adoring Fans

  30-11-2016 17:09 via gamesradar.com
  
  Sure, Skyrim: Special Edition has all the newest graphics and mod support, but if you want to experience The Elder Scrolls the way it was meant to be experienced - buggy, and starring like, six voice actors total - you need to pop in your copy of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion
  
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• EA's promises a "much bigger" Star Wars Battlefront 2 next year, with new movie content

  30-11-2016 17:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Star Wars Battlefront 2 will be a "much bigger" game according to EA CFO Blake Jorgensen in a recent financial presentation
  
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• Answering 3 Big Questions about Resident Evil 7

  30-11-2016 17:00
  
  Twenty years on, and it's hard to say what Resident Evil stands for.
  It may have been the series that coined the phrase 'survival horror', but that idea is largely absent from recent instalments. It felt like Resi had lost its way, and identity, focussing more on action and spectacle over suspense and horror.
  Resident Evil 7, thankfully, suffers from none of those anxieties. It’s a confident statement of what Resident Evil looks like today – and that’s an intense survival
  
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• Eddie 'The Eagle' Edwards Is First Man to Play Video Game in Vertical Wind Tunnel

  30-11-2016 16:00
  
  Eddie 'The Eagle' Edwards has a new place in the record books as the first person to successfully play a video game in a vertical wind tunnel.
  The game in question was Ubisoft's Steep, and the challenge had been arranged by the publisher to "test extreme winter sports fans" by asking them to "play whilst balancing themselves in mid-air".
  Edwards rose to fame in the eighties as a Olympic ski-jumper, during which he bested the world record and became Britain's first representative in the sport sin
  
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• More Death Stranding Details Coming This Weekend

  30-11-2016 15:38
  
  Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced that this year's PlayStation Experience will feature a panel on Kojima Productions' upcoming game Death Stranding.
  According to a post on PlayStation Blog, "Hideo Kojima and special guests" will present a Death Stranding panel at PSX 2016 this Saturday, December 3 at 1pm PT.
  Death Stranding was announced at E3 this year as Hideo Kojima's first big release following his departure from Konami in 2015. So far little is known about the game, except f
  
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• The Assassin's Creed movie's Animus looks amazing (and exhausting) in action

  30-11-2016 15:33 via gamesradar.com
  
  The Animus from Assassin's Creed has always been pleasantly static
  
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• Super Mario Maker for 3DS Review

  30-11-2016 14:58
  
  Just like in the amazing Wii U version, the easy-to-use tools of Super Mario Maker for 3DS empower you to create vibrant, challenging or creative levels using the look and feel of several generations of 2D Super Mario games with relative ease, except now you can do it on the go! And the way it quickly switches between create and play is easily the best part of the experience. But as feature-rich as the 3DS port is, it has some crippling shortcomings when it comes to sharing the stages you make w
  
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• UK Game Deals: Xbox One S with FIFA 17, Forza Horizon 3, Fallout 4 and a 2 month Now TV Cinema Pass for £229.99

  30-11-2016 14:40 via gamesradar.com
  
  Black Friday and Cyber Monday might be over for another year but that does't mean the bargains have to stop
  
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• GTA 4 Patched for First Time in 6 Years

  30-11-2016 14:05
  
  New content is being released for Grand Theft Auto V all the time, but that doesn't mean Rockstar isn't still supporting its old games.
  According to Kotaku, Grand Theft Auto IV has received its first patch in six years.
  The patch contains some general bug fixes, and the game shows its age by solving an issue caused by graphics cards with more than 2GB of VRAM. The patch also adds Windows 8, 8.1 and 10 to the compatible OS check.
  GTA IV was released back in 2008, and at the time, IGN gave it a 10
  
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• Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+ Possibly Coming to Nintendo Switch

  30-11-2016 13:22
  
  The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+ is coming to PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and also one mystery console.
  In a recent Binding of Isaac blog post, it was revealed the game won't be coming to PS Vita or Wii U, but there is still one console to be announced. Since we're running out of options, it's possible Afterbirth+ could be coming to the upcoming Nintendo Switch.
  Afterbirth+ is an expansion to Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, and will add further to the existing Afterbirth expansion with new items
  
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• Negan will be “f*cking heavy” in the next Walking Dead episodes and back for season 8 says Jeffrey Dean Morgan

  30-11-2016 13:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  We know that The Walking Dead is returning for season 8 but it wasn’t clear if everyone’s favourite skull-smashing Savior would be along for the ride
  
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• FIFA 17 Ultimate Team players given free Chapecoense kits and badges in tribute to Brazilian club

  30-11-2016 13:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  In a move widely – and rightly – praised by its community, EA has given all FIFA 17 Ultimate Team players free Chapecoense kits and badges to be worn in tribute to the club stricken by Monday's air disaster
  
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• Investigation Clears No Man's Sky of Misleading Players

  30-11-2016 12:59
  
  The UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has officially dismissed claims that No Man's Sky misled players on its Steam Page and in its promotional materials.
  In a meaty statement published on the ASA website, the regulatory body stated that "no further action is required" in investigating accusations that Hello Games misrepresented the sprawling space simulator before its release to the public.
  Referring directly to the trailer, blurb and screenshots available on the game's Steam page, the
  
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• Advertising Standards Agency concludes that No Man's Sky did not mislead gamers

  30-11-2016 12:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  It's a bit of an understatement to say that the global reaction to No Man's Sky on release was a passionate one but it was still a surprise when the UK's Advertising Standards Agency waded in to investigate claims of misleading advertising
  
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• Watch Shuhei Yoshida get REALLY excited unboxing The Last Guardian's Collector's Edition

  30-11-2016 12:16 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hard to believe The Last Guardian is finally, actually happening
  
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• Westworld’s Logan teases “terrifying” season finale and talks fan theories

  30-11-2016 12:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  Westworld’s season one finale is just days away and Ben Barnes (Logan) has described the finale as “terrifying” – while telling fans to “stop thinking so hard” about trying to crack the show’s many mysteries before Sunday’s finale
  
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• Devising the VR gaze controls of Eagle Flight

  30-11-2016 10:07
  
  "Using your head to 'point' where you want to go feels super natural," says creative director Charles Huteau "Way more logical for your body than sending an order to your thumbs to push sticks."...
  
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• Tilting Point opens $12M fund to help devs pay user acquisition costs

  30-11-2016 01:19
  
  In a sign of the times, Tilting Point has established a $12 million fund exclusively to help mobile game developers pay to scale up their user acquisition for games that are doing well. ...
  
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• OSVR support has quietly come to Steam

  30-11-2016 00:52
  In case you missed it last week, there's a new platform on the list of Steam's supported VR headsets: OSVR, the "Open-Source Virtual Reality" platform Razer debuted back in 2015....
  
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• UKIE exhorts British officials to jumpstart the UK's eSports scene

  30-11-2016 00:24
  
  UKIE calls on the UK government to institute eSports diversity initiatives, better regulation and installation of "superfast broadband" that would make the UK competitive with hubs like South Korea. ...
  
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