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• Pokemon Go datamining reveals Celebi, Deoxys, Smeargle, and more

  11-07-2018 23:09 via gamesradar.com
  Finally complete that Gen 2 Pokedex!
  
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• Fortnite Summer Skirmish is 8 weeks of competition with $8 million in prizes, starting Saturday

  11-07-2018 23:07 via gamesradar.com
  You may be able to join in the skirmish too, but not for the first round
  
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• Fortnite Summer Skirmish Series Announced With Prize Pool of $8 Million

  11-07-2018 22:04
  Epic Games will be hosting the Fortnite Summer Skirmish series, an 8-week series of competitions with a prize pool of $8 million USD.
  Announced on a blog post by the Fortnite team, The Summer Skirmish series will kick-off this weekend with a $250,000 Duos competition comprising of “community creators and Fortnite players who have demonstrated their competitive prowess.”
  The team has also noted that “in order to jumpstart the competition, invitations for the inaugural Summer Ski
  
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• Fortnite: Season 5 Downtime and Patch Information Detailed

  11-07-2018 22:00
  Epic has detailed what Fortnite players can expect for the launch of Season 5 tomorrow.
  Season 4 will conclude at 1am PST on July 12 and downtime for the 5.0 patch will begin immediately after. As soon as downtime begins, Epic will release patch notes detailing new additions and any other changes coming to Fortnite.
  In the past, downtime between updates typically lasted an hour, but updates between seasons are typically longer. Epic has stated the patch size this time around will be larger than
  
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• Original Assassin's Creed producer on its decade-long success: "I'm still surprised"

  11-07-2018 21:53 via gamesradar.com
  Jade Raymond explains how the AC series was set up for success
  
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• Pennywise, Shawshank, and J.J. Abrams? Castle Rock might be the Stephen King TV show fans have always wanted

  11-07-2018 21:01 via gamesradar.com
  The new trailer is a feast for fans of the main horror honcho
  
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• Explaining the Complicated History of Shazam

  11-07-2018 20:24
  There was a time when Shazam (aka Captain Marvel) was the most popular superhero in the world. And maybe that time will come again, as a live-action Shazam movie starring Zachary Levi as the World's Mightiest Mortal is on its way.
  But who is this magical powerhouse, and how does he fit into the larger DC Universe? Read on to learn everything you need to know about Shazam.First Look at Shazam, via EW
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• Fortnite Bingo Created by Fans Just Before Season 5 Begins

  11-07-2018 20:07
  
  Season 5 of Fortnite is less than 24 hours away and fans are spending that time with something they're calling Fortnite bingo.
  The rules for this custom game are simple. Before you start a match with friends, find a Fortnite bingo sheet online that features rows and columns of weapons of different rarities. As you play, your goal is to find five weapons in-game that line up with one of the rows or columns of the Fortnite bingo sheet. The first player to do this wins.
  We made our own Fortnite bin
  
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• Star Wars Fans Are Motivated by Beating Other Star Wars Fans, EA Says

  11-07-2018 20:02
  According to EA, the main motivation behind most Star Wars fans is to know more about Star Wars than other Star Wars fans.
  Speaking at the Develop conference (via Eurogamer), EA Motive’s Jade Raymond explained that “the number one motivator for either fans of playing Star Wars games or looking to participate in the Star Wars universe in any way is to become the number one fan.”Raymond explained that a Star Wars Fan’s motivation for learning more Star Wars facts usually bo
  
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• Monster Hunter Is Getting a 3D Animated Special

  11-07-2018 19:33
  
  Capcom has partnered with Pure Imagination Studios to create a 3D animated Monster Hunter special called Monster Hunter: Legends of the Guild. The special will be completed this winter and will premiere globally in 2019.
  Legends of the Guild is the story of a young man out to prove his merits as a titular monster hunter. He gets a chance to do just that when his village is caught in the sights of an Elder Dragon, a beast Capcom describes as "a veritable force of nature made flesh." Concept art o
  
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• 11 Minutes of Brand-New Darksiders 3 Gameplay

  11-07-2018 18:00
  Our IGN First month of coverage with Darksiders 3 continues! In this new look at the Fury-ous action-adventure game from Gunfire Games, we look at 11 brand-new minutes of gameplay.
  And don't worry, there are no story spoilers in the above video. Enjoy!
  ABOVE: The new Flame Hollow trailer for Darksiders 3.
  Darksiders 3 is our IGN First game for July, which means we've editorially chosen to take a look at it all month long. We traveled to Gunfire Games in Austin, Texas, and we'll be bringing you m
  
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• The Witcher's still a pillar for CD Projekt Red, just don't expect the next one to be "The Witcher 4"

  11-07-2018 17:28 via gamesradar.com
  We'll see a world of monsters and monster hunters again
  
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• ESPN, Disney and ABC to Broadcast Overwatch League

  11-07-2018 17:13
  ESPN, Disney and ABC will now broadcast the Overwatch League.
  ESPN has announced Disney has signed a multi-year broadcast deal with Blizzard Entertainment. The deal will cover the Overwatch League playoffs beginning tonight.
  Overwatch matches will be broadcast across the ESPN network, ESPN2, Disney XD, ABC, and streaming services with "hundreds of hours" of live and highlight programming. This will mark the first time the Overwatch League will be broadcast live on TV.
  There will also b
  
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• Third Fortnite: Season 5 Teaser Says Worlds Will Collide

  11-07-2018 17:10
  Epic Games has shared another teaser for Fortnite: Season 5.
  The third teaser image from the official Fortnite Twitter account is bordered by two rifts and says "Worlds Collide" across it.
  As Fortnite's fifth season has approached, rifts have appeared across the map and in-game items have appeared in the real world as part of a mysterious ARG. The game's mascots have even started popping up across Europe, with Supply Llamas being found in Poland, England, France, Spain, and Germany
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• Subnautica Announced for PS4

  11-07-2018 16:32
  The aquatic survival game Subnautica is heading to PlayStation 4 this holiday season.
  Over on the PlayStation Blog, Panic Button studio general manager and director of development Adam Creighton revealed his company was behind the PS4 port. The studio is also working on Warframe for Nintendo Switch and previously brought Doom and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus to the hybrid system.
  For more on the game, be sure to check out IGN's glowing review for Subnautica.
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• The Gardens Between Announced for Nintendo Switch

  11-07-2018 16:00
  Developer The Voxel Agents have announced that its adventure puzzle game, The Gardens Between, will arrive on Switch later this year. There's no word on an exact release date just yet, but players can except the Switch version to launch alongside the previously announced PlayStation 4, Windows, and Mac versions sometime in Q3 2018.
  Taking place in a mysterious realm where cause and effect are malleable and time flows in all directions, The Gardens Between follows the story of best friends Arina
  
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• The Last of Us Part 2's Ellie Will Have an NPC Companion

  11-07-2018 15:48
  The Last of Us: Part 2 is about honoring Ellie, and Naughty Dog has made a point of implying she may be the only playable character. But in a new interview, Naughty Dog Vice President Neil Druckmann let slip that she'll have someone else along for the ride.
  "Well, so, Ellie used to be an NPC, but she’s the protagonist in this story, so the player is controlling Ellie. It’s safe to say with the game that we made in the past that there will be some NPC with you in this story, even
  
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• Xbox Game Pass Adds Rocket League

  11-07-2018 15:45
  Rocket League is the latest big-name game to join the Xbox Game Pass lineup.
  Game director Scott Rudi made the announcement on Xbox Wire, adding that Rocket League DLC is discounted for Game Pass subscribers as well. Speaking of which, Psyonix is working on a Rocket Pass, which follows in the footsteps of Fortnite's Battle Pass.
  Last month, Xbox Game Pass added Fallout 4, The Division and The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited.
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• Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker - Switch and 3DS Review

  11-07-2018 15:00
  In 2013, Super Mario 3D World’s ‘Adventures of Captain Toad’ challenges impressed Shigeru Miyamoto so much that he requested a full game be made out of them. Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker was released for Wii U a year later, comprising 68 intricate levels based on the Japanese tradition of hakoniwa, or miniature gardening. Here’s what we thought at the time:“Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker is one of the smartest, most charming puzzle games of 2014. I’d also ca
  
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• PUBG Hacking Arrests Reach 141

  11-07-2018 13:27
  141 PUBG hackers have now been arrested in China for creating cheat software containing a trojan virus.
  Exp.gg reports that the total number of hackers arrested has now reached 141, with the arrest of 120 people in January (via Bloomberg) and a further 15 in April.
  The arrests are the result of a cooperative effort between local police and Tencent, the Chinese publisher for the game.
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• Self-destructing scripts, code names, and only 24 hours to rehearse - how Game of Thrones season 8 aims to keep its secrets

  11-07-2018 12:38 via gamesradar.com
  Security is "tighter than the White House,” says Sansa Stark actress Sophie Turner
  
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• Perfectly balanced: even one of the Avengers: Infinity War directors didn't survive the Thanos Reddit snap

  11-07-2018 11:40 via gamesradar.com
  The Mad Titan spared no prisoners...
  
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• Code Vein Delayed to 2019

  11-07-2018 10:56
  Code Vein, Bandai Namco's vampire-based action RPG, has been delayed until 2019.
  A press release from Bandai Namco states the release date for Code Vein has been pushed back to some time next year, even though the original September 2018 release date was only announced last month.
  Herve Hoerdt, Vice President Marketing and Digital at Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe, says the delay is due to the desire to improve the game and exceed fan expectations after feedback from hands-on d
  
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• The Halo TV Series: Our Hopes and Fears

  11-07-2018 00:05
  Our Xbox crew catches up on the week's news, including the green-lighting of Showtime's Halo TV series, EA Motive's new Star Wars project, Anthem's much-appreciated gameplay tweak, Dead Island 2's zombie-like revival, and more!
  Oh, and Unlocked now has its own snazzy new homepage! Bookmark this: go.ign.com/unlocked
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