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• Slowly but surely, indies are saving the Nintendo Switch launch lineup

  25-01-2017 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Five. That's how many games Nintendo announced would be available for the Switch at launch during its live streamed presentation in Japan earlier this month. Of those five games, two were multiplatform releases that had already launched on other consoles, one was a glorified tech demo and another was a port of a Wii U game. Super Bomberman R was the only true exclusive coming to the Switch on launch day. Thankfully, since then, independent developers have taken it upon themselves to bolster
  
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• Our Five Favorite Things About The Game So Far

  25-01-2017 23:30
  Ubisoft’s major spring releases loom on the horizon. We’ve had chances to throw down in For Honor but our hands-on time with the latest Ghost Recon has been limited – until now. I recently played the first two opening hours of the game, as well as another two hours during a later area of the game, and came away with a stronger sense of what kind of game Wildlands is and how it plays.
  During my time with the game, I took part in a number of memorable scenarios in Wildlands&rsqu
  
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• Every Game Confirmed to Release in 2018

  25-01-2017 22:58
  
  We still have an entire year of releases staring us down here in January 2017, but things change, deadlines shift, and games often slip further into the future.
  2017 may just be getting started, but believe it or not, 2018 is already starting to take shape. These are the games currently announced for release during 2018.
  Currently in development, Koji Igarashi's return to a classic Castlevania: Symphony of the Night-style game was met with a great amount of enthusiasm, going on to break records
  
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• Here are the skins, modes, and changes in Overwatch's Year of the Rooster update

  25-01-2017 22:26 via gamesradar.com
  
  Overwatch's Lunar New Year event - AKA Year of the Rooster - is now live
  
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• Game of Thrones season 7 will be full of 'high and low points' for Arya Stark, says Maisie Williams

  25-01-2017 22:21 via gamesradar.com
  
  Arya Stark was back in fighting shape at the end of Game of Thrones season 6 but she still has some rough times ahead of her
  
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• Get a job: Yacht Club Games is hiring a Senior Artist

  25-01-2017 22:15
  
  Yacht Club Games is on the lookout for an experienced artist to help out on the next big batch of Shovel Knight updates and future projects in Marina Del Rey, California. ...
  
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• Gearbox's Randy Pitchford explains how failure can drive success

  25-01-2017 22:05
  
  'If I'm not failing, then I'm probably not trying things that are hard,' said Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford as he dissected his own development triumphs and failures in an interview with Glixel....
  
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• 20 Photos of Japan's Resident Evil 7 Launch Merchandise

  25-01-2017 21:04
  The Resident Evil 7: Biohazard Launch Celebration in Tokyo, Japan on January 24 had plenty of awesome Resident Evil merchandise on display, spanning multiple games from Capcom's long-running survival horror series.
  Check them out in the gallery below.
  As you can see, the merchandise includes everything from iPhone covers and shirts donning the Resident Evil 7 logo, to stainless steel BSAA mugs, playing cards, a pillow of a S.T.A.R.S.-branded rocket launcher, Umbrella Corporation and R.P.D. floor
  
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• The Ghost Recon: Wildlands beta will run from Feb. 3-6, here are 4 reasons to sign up

  25-01-2017 20:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  The closed beta for Ghost Recon Wildlands will run from February 3 to 6, Ubisoft has announced
  
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• Here's the lineup of playable games at Day of the Devs during GDC 2017!

  25-01-2017 20:19
  
  From Nidhogg 2 to Pyre to Knights and Bikes, here are ten great games that will be playable (often alongside their devs, who are fully chatable) in the Day of the Devs space at GDC 2017!...
  
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• Don't Miss: Creating realistic chat in Mr. Robot: 1.51exfiltrati0n

  25-01-2017 20:17
  
  Adam Hines, co-founder of Night School Studio and game director, and Kevin Riach, game designer/producer, talk about creating the free-flowing real time text conversations in Mr. Robot:1.51exfiltrati0n ...
  
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• Halo Wars 2 beta player turns a support ability into a sadistically clever offensive one

  25-01-2017 19:51 via gamesradar.com
  
  As of today, January 25, we're halfway through the Halo Wars 2 beta and a month away from the game's full release
  
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• Rooster Teeth Games switches gears to branch into game publishing

  25-01-2017 19:48
  
  After developing and publishing a game based on the animated series RWBY last year, Rooster Teeth has announced that Rooster Teeth Games is branching out to publish games for independent developers. ...
  
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• Itching for the Nintendo Switch? This iPhone controller may tide you over

  25-01-2017 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Perhaps hoping to ride the coattails or remind people that it did it first, Gamevice has announced refreshed versions of its iPhone and iPad gaming controllers, that look an awful lot like Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons.
  
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• Get real-time rendering tips from Rogue One's VFX team at GDC 2017

  25-01-2017 19:10
  
  Come to GDC 2017 for a chance to reach across disciplines and study the real-time rendering techniques used in the latest Star Wars film!...
  
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• Blog: Most inspiring game animation tech talks of 2016

  25-01-2017 19:03
  
  A quick summary of my favorite talks from 2016 related to game animation programming or technology....
  
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• Nintendo Switch pre-orders are outpacing PS4 at Swedish retailer

  25-01-2017 19:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Webhallen, a large Swedish retailer, claimed that its Switch pre-orders not only sold out, but that they surpassed pre-orders numbers for the PS4. Interest in the console has caused pre-orders to sell out worldwide.
  
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• Learn how escape room design can help your game at 3PM EST

  25-01-2017 18:28
  
  Are you a puzzle designer or level designer? Want to get some key insights from designing escape rooms? We're interviewing escape room designer Laura Hall today at 3PM EST. ...
  
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• Cult favorite Alice: Madness Returns comes to Xbox One backwards compatibility

  25-01-2017 18:22 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you're an Xbox One owner and you feel like going a bit mad, listen up
  
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• Blog: A research gallery packed with over 16,000 RPG screenshots

  25-01-2017 18:04
  
  I've put together a gallery with over 16,000 .png screenshots of almost 400 CRPGs, free for anyone to use. Take a look....
  
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• At GDC 2017, get engineering insights from folks who used animation to bring a toy robot to life

  25-01-2017 18:02
  
  At GDC 2017 Anki engineers will explain how, in animating the real-life robot Cozmo, Anki used real-world physics so there was no "cheating" -- and they had to adjust their process accordingly....
  
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• At GDC 2017, get animation tips from folks who animated an actual robot

  25-01-2017 18:02
  
  At GDC 2017 Anki engineers will explain how, in animating the real-life robot Cozmo, Anki used real-world physics so there was no "cheating" -- and they had to adjust their process accordingly....
  
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• Ghost Recon: Wildlands is amazing fun if you can find the right people

  25-01-2017 18:00 via gamesradar.com
  
  There are some great moments in Ghost Recon: Wildlands but experiencing them requires some very specific conditions - namely that you and your friends take things seriously
  
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• Apocalypse Now Video Game Announced

  25-01-2017 18:00
  
  A Kickstarter campaign has been launched to support development of a video game based on Francis Ford Coppola's seminal war film Apocalypse Now.
  The Coppola family's film studio American Zoetrope will join forces with "entertainment and games industry veterans" to develop a psychological horror RPG around the 1979 movie. Said veterans include Rob Auten (Gears of War, Battlefield), Lawrence Liberty ( Fallout: New Vegas, The Witcher) , Montgomery Markland ( Wasteland 2 and Torment: Tides of N
  
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• 6 Things We Learned About Ghost Recon Wildlands

  25-01-2017 18:00
  Ghost Recon Wildlands takes the tactical shooter in a new direction, its open world offering a new level of freedom and opportunity for the series. The Ghosts are dropped deep inside Bolivia, a country ruled by the drug cartel Santa Blanca and its hired private army, Unidad. But by targeting Santa Blanca’s sicarios leading to the Ghosts can restore balance to the country.
  Wildlands is a very different type of Ghost Recon game, to the point it doesn’t really feel much like it belongs
  
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• HTC opens applications for Tracker dev kits

  25-01-2017 17:43
  
  Virtual reality devs can apply to get their hands on HTC's Vive Tracker, a small button-like devices that clips on to real world objects so they can be tracked in VR. ...
  
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• Mark Hamill gives his thoughts on The Last Jedi title: it's very "samurai"

  25-01-2017 17:31 via gamesradar.com
  
  This week, it was revealed that Star Wars: Episode 8 would be titled "The Last Jedi
  
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• Watch the Kojima/Mads bromance bloom as the actor visits the studio

  25-01-2017 17:04 via gamesradar.com
  
  Hideo Kojima knows how to treat a guest right. When actor Mads Mikkelsen - who plays a sinister figu ...
  
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• The Magicians Wants You To Know It's Messing With You

  25-01-2017 17:00
  
  The Magicians isn't going to wait long to resolve its big Season 1 cliffhanger, but expect the Syfy fantasy series to take you on one heck of an unexpected journey from there.
  Full spoilers for The Magicians: Season 1 continue below.
  We visited the Season 2 set of The Magicians back in October when the show was filming its eighth episode, and already the stars were incredibly buttoned up on the many plot twists and turns had taken to get to that point. Considering the majority of the cast whose
  
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• Classic FM launching UK's first game music radio show

  25-01-2017 16:15
  
  UK radio station Classic FM plans to launch the country's first radio series dedicated to symphonic video game music.  ...
  
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• Prey's release date is set for May 5, 2017 and you can watch a new trailer right now

  25-01-2017 16:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  You can fight aliens and turn into a coffee mug when Prey comes out on May 5, 2017
  
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• Prey Has A May Release Date And A New Gameplay Trailer

  25-01-2017 16:00
  Prey, the new sci-fi adventure from the creators of Dishonored, has a release date and trailer filled with new gameplay.
  In the trailer you will see many of the mechanics discussed in our Prey cover story in action. But, perhaps, most importantly, the trailer also reveals a May 5 release date. You can check out the trailer below.
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  Additionally, the game's trailer also showcases what players will get for pre-ordering the game.For more on Prey check out a
  
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• Power Rangers Film Getting Fighting Game Tie-In

  25-01-2017 16:00
  
  Power Rangers: Legacy Wars, a multiplayer fighting game, has been announced for iOS and Android.
  The upcoming mobile title will release this March and serve as a tie-in to Lionsgate's upcoming Power Rangers live-action film, GameSpot reports. Legacy Wars will feature villains from the classic TV series, and its character designs will be based on those in the movie.
  Power Rangers: Legacy WarsDeveloper nWay, the studio behind the mobile game ChronoBlade, is developing the upcoming mobile figh
  
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• May Release Date And A New Gameplay Trailer

  25-01-2017 16:00
  Prey, the new sci-fi adventure from the creators of Dishonored, has a release date and trailer filled with new gameplay.
  In the trailer you will see many of the mechanics discussed in our Prey cover story in action. But, perhaps, most importantly, the trailer also reveals a May 5 release date. You can check out the trailer below.
  (Please visit the site to view this media)
  Additionally, the game's trailer also showcases what players will get for pre-ordering the game.For more on Prey check out a
  
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• Prey Release Date Announced

  25-01-2017 15:59
  
  Bethesda has announced that Prey will be released worldwide on May 5, 2017 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC.
  A new trailer revealed the release date along with our best look yet at main character Morgan Yu and the alien threat he’s fighting on board space station Talos I.
  Along with the news, Bethesda also announced the Cosmonaut Shotgun Pack, a bonus pack that will be available to players who preorder Prey.
  The Cosmonaut Shotgun Pack will offer a Margrave shotgun (a Yu family heirloom, according
  
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• Epic Games launches $500,000 year-long game dev contest

  25-01-2017 15:35
  Epic Games has joined forces with charity foundation Wellcome Trust to launch Developing Beyond, a year-long game dev competition worth $500,000. ...
  
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• Evo 2017 Game Line-up Announced

  25-01-2017 15:24
  Evo 2017, the fighting game community's biggest tournament, is taking place in July, and the games at the event have now been revealed.
  During a Twitch live stream last night, the organisers announced eight games confirmed to be at the show, and also revealed there would be a player vote for the ninth game on the roster.
  The eight games definitely at Evo are: Street Fighter V, Guilty Gear Xrd Rev2, Super Smash Bros. Wii U, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Injustice 2, BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Tekken 7
  
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• Road to the IGF: David O'Reilly's Everything

  25-01-2017 15:21
  
  In Everything, you can become a car, driving idly around a city. You can stop and become one of the buildings you pass by, ot its cinder blocks or pylons. If you can see it, you can become it. ...
  
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• Blog: What I learned working remotely for over three years

  25-01-2017 15:20
  
  I share anecdotes, advice, and best practices for working from home in the game development industry....
  
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• This Negan victim might be returning in an upcoming Walking Dead episode

  25-01-2017 14:59 via gamesradar.com
  
  Just as we’re getting over the deaths of some of our favourite The Walking Dead season 7 characters, rumours are flying that we may see a familiar face back on the screen, after all… even if the character is no longer alive in the current day timeline
  
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• Is Star Wars: The Last Jedi singular or plural? Watch Daisy Ridley dodge the question

  25-01-2017 14:48 via gamesradar.com
  
  The voice of Olaf from Frozen put his career on the line to answer one question that's left us all hanging: in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, who is or are the Last Jedi?! The title reveal earlier this week was exciting but severely devoid of context, and since Josh Gad is currently filming Murder on the Orient Express with Daisy Ridley, he tried to get the answer straight from the force-user's mouth
  
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• This week in video game blogging: Doing what you're told

  25-01-2017 13:35
  
  This week, our partnership with games blogging curation site Critical Distance brings us picks from their Senior Curator Zoyander Street on governance and management....
  
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• Project Scorpio Is a "Full Blown Next-Gen Machine" Says Dev

  25-01-2017 13:15
  An Xbox developer has spoken out on the rumoured power of upcoming console upgrade, Project Scorpio.
  Creator of Ori and the Blind Forest, Thomas Mahler took to NeoGAF to answer a question about whether Scorpio is a PS4 Pro style console update, or a whole new generation of Xbox console. His answer - it's sort of both:
  "Scorpio isn't just a half-assed upgrade (which the PS4 Pro kinda is...), but a full blown next-gen machine that's just backwards-compatible to your current library."
  That's a
  
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• There's a Horizon Zero Dawn 1TB PS4 Slim bundle on the way to tempt you

  25-01-2017 12:49 via gamesradar.com
  
  Need an excuse to switch our your original PS4 for the ultra slim model and quite fancy a storage upgrade to boot? Well look what Sony has just revealed for the launch of Horizon Zero Dawn
  
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• Watch every single gruesome death in Resident Evil 7 [Spoilers. And blood. Lots of blood]

  25-01-2017 12:29 via gamesradar.com
  
  If you want to basically do Resident Evil 7 in about 20 minutes then here's every horrible, murderous death for your
  
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• Watch Tom Holland tease fans about filming Spidey scenes for Avengers: Infinity War

  25-01-2017 12:18 via gamesradar.com
  
  Whether Spider-Man is appearing in Avengers: Infinity War or not is one of the great mysteries of our time
  
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• Sundance 2017: Aubrey Plaza is the ultimate Instagram stalker in Ingrid Goes West

  25-01-2017 12:01 via gamesradar.com
  
  Often when a film tries to skewer a zeitgeisty topic, it can come off feeling like the creator is trying to prove they’re down with the kids, when actually they’re way off the mark
  
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• Star Wars: The Last Jedi’s director gives first look at the movie’s opening crawl

  25-01-2017 11:27 via gamesradar.com
  
  Now that Star Wars: The Last Jedi has its name we’re finally being allowed to peer behind the curtain thanks to director Rian Johnson
  
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• Blog: The Steam Controller configurator's untapped power

  25-01-2017 10:02
  
  Did you know you that PlayStation and Xbox controllers are now also "Steam Controllers?" Game developer Lars Doucet dives deep into the Steam Controller configurator. ...
  
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• Pokemon Bank Now Compatible With Sun and Moon

  25-01-2017 03:19
  
  You can now transfer your favorite old Pokemon to Sun and Moon using the Pokemon Bank.
  Well, maybe not ALL your favorite old Pokemon, but any Pokemon from Omega Ruby, Alpha Sapphire, X, Y, or the 3DS Virtual Console versions of Red, Blue, and Yellow, can now be transferred.
  Nintendo is also giving away Mewnium Z crystals to Pokemon Bank users. That's the Z-crystal for Mew, in case you were wondering. Nintendo points out the Z-crystal only works in Pokemon Sun and Moon, but you have until Oc
  
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