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The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season launches next week on Switch
With seasons two and three to follow.
Telltale Games has announced that The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season will be lurching menacingly onto Switch next week, on August 28th.
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Arena of Valor is the biggest game you've never heard of - and it's coming to Switch
Tencent's play for western console gamers.
In the world of mobile gaming, there are few titles that can compete with Arena of Valor. With a player base that has peaked at over 200 million players, the MOBA is a veritable kingpin of pocket gaming. And in September, Tencent will bring this free-to-play juggernaut to the Switch.
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Hearthstone's game-changing new mechanic almost got cut entirely
"We were really down to the wire..."
Magnetic, Hearthstone's latest game-changing keyword, almost didn't make it into this month's new Project Boomsday expansion. In fact, it was so tough to implement well that it almost got binned completely.
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PUBG leaves Xbox Game Preview this September
Version 1.0 includes Sanhok map, Xbox-themed cosmetics, more.
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds will be leaving Microsoft's Xbox Game Preview programme and launching on Xbox One in its version 1.0 guise, on September 4th.
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Crytek's multiplayer swamp horror Hunt: Showdown is heading to Xbox One
As part of Xbox Game Preview.
Kicking off today's special Gamescom edition of Inside Xbox, Microsoft has announced that Crytek's multiplayer swamp horror Hunt: Showdown is making its way to Xbox One via the Xbox Game Preview programme.
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Capcom has shown off new Devil May Cry 5 gameplay during Microsoft's gamescom Inside Xbox show.
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Halo: The Master Chief Collection hits Xbox Game Pass in September
Finish the fight (again).
Halo: The Master Chief Collection hits Xbox Game Pass 1st September 2018, Microsoft has announced.
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DayZ gets an Xbox Game Preview release date
Yes, it's still in Early Access on PC.
DayZ is coming to Xbox One in a little over a week. The granddaddy of multiplayer survival games (with a sprinkling of zombies) hits Xbox Game Preview 29th August.
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Microsoft-published ReCore: Definitive Edition, Super Lucky's Tale and more coming to Steam
Valve open.
Microsoft has announced a handful of its games are coming to Steam and PC disc.
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Amazon is making a PlayStation 4 and Xbox One racing game based on Top Gear-by-another-name car show The Grand Tour.
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CD Projekt Red has released a few new screenshots from Cyberpunk 2077.
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Cortana commentates the Forza Horizon 4 Halo mission
Ford Cortana.
During a Forza Horizon 4 session at Gamescom today, I was shown the game's recently-leaked Halo map in full. It's a loving mash-up of Scottish countryside and, as expected, Halo campaign level The Silent Cartographer. Less expected - Cortana commentates your race throughout.
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Digital Foundry | Shenmue's HD remasters analysed: enhancements are sparse but the ports are solid gold
Genuine console classics properly restored for modern hardware.
It may not be the full-on remaster/remake we might have hoped for, but Shenmue and its sequel are finally playable on modern hardware, courtesy of Sega and developer d3t. PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC releases are available, each delivering a remarkably close conversion of the Dreamcast originals, with one or two interesting tweaks.
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Saints Row is coming to Nintendo Switch! But it's not Saints Row: Gat out of Hell, the most recent game, nor is it series high-point Saints Row 4, from 2013. It is Saints Row: The Third, for some reason, a 2011 PS3 and Xbox 360 game.
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Recommended | Guacamelee 2 review - a bold, bright 2D adventure with heaps of good humour
Holy guacamole.
I didn't think I was going to like Guacamelee 2.
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You can get Sea of Thieves' Joanna Dark figurehead by watching Inside Xbox tomorrow
Plus there's a first look at Forsaken Shores.
Rare has a few treats in store for Sea of Thieves fans watching Microsoft's Inside Xbox livestream tomorrow, August 21st - including the chance to get hold of a rather nifty Joanna-Dark-inspired figurehead to spice up their ship's bow.
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Tactical Wild West series Desperados returns in 2019
Out for Redemption.
THQ Nordic has announced a new Desperados game - Desperados 3 - for release on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One next year.
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Bandai Namco has pulled back the curtain on Soulcalibur 6's second story mode.
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Ubisoft is re-releasing the Settlers games
And there's a brand new Settlers due out in 2019.
Here's some cool news coming out of gamescom if you're into strategy series The Settlers: Ubisoft is re-releasing The Settlers 1-7 - and has announced a brand new The Settlers game, simply titled The Settlers, due out in 2019.
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Shenmue 3 finally gets a release date
Plus an all-new look at Yu Suzuki's return.
Shenmue 3 finally has a release date, with the third instalment in Yu Suzuki's grand adventure opus arriving on August 27th next year.
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The HTC Vive wireless adapter finally loses the cables but it's £300
VR not having enough money.
The Vive wireless adapter, which frees the headset from the cable tethering it to a PC, will launch here 24th September and oh my giddy aunt it's £300! And the Vive Pro wireless adapter is £364!
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Until Dawn dev Supermassive goes multiplatform with the Dark Pictures Anthology
First up, Man of Medan.
Supermassive is going multiplatform with a new set of horror games collectively called the Dark Pictures Anthology.
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The original Luigi's Mansion now has a 3DS release date
Back from the dead.
Nintendo may have unceremoniously slain Luigi in its most recent Smash Bros. Direct, but the put-upon plumber brother will be back alive in the upcoming 3DS port of Luigi's Mansion.
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Sony reveals four new PS4 controller colours set for the UK - and Sunset Orange is one of them
Quadshock Phoar.
Sony has announced the release of four new PlayStation 4 controllers in the UK Berry Blue, Blue Camouflage, Copper and Sunset Orange.
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Twitch criticised for pulling ad-free viewing from Twitch Prime
"This just looks like corporate greed being sold as looking out for the little guy."
Twitch has been roundly criticised for pulling ad-free viewing from Twitch Prime.
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Finnish arcade game specialist Housemarque (Nex Machina, Resogun, Super Stardust) has properly thrown the sheet off new PC game Stormdivers, having revealed the name and multiplayer intentions earlier in the year.
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Castlevania spiritual successor Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night delayed into 2019
And PlayStation Vita version is cancelled.
Designer Koji Igarashi has announced that his long-awaited Castlevania spiritual successor, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, will now launch in 2019, and that the planned PlayStation Vita version is no more.
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A Hat in Time is heading to Switch "soon"
Plus new DLC and a co-op mode coming to PC next month.
Developer Gears for Breakfast's delightfully old-school 3D platformer A Hat in Time is heading to Switch, and there's new DLC coming to PC next month too.
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Life is Strange 2 will swap the small town America setting of its original season and the powerful narrative of friendship between two teenage girls for something very different - a roadtrip tale set along the West coast of America starring two young brothers.
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Recommended | F1 2018 review - marginal gains make for Codemasters' best F1 game to date
It is I, Leclerc.
Strip a modern F1 car of all of its sponsorship decals, goes the well-worn saying I've been guilty of bandying around myself, and you'd be hard pushed to tell any two models apart. So strictly defined is the modern rule-set, so homogeneous the designs, that underneath that lick of lurid paint every car is almost exactly the same - and it's an accusation you could well level at F1 2018, the 10th mainline outing of Codemasters' official take on the sport, and one of its most gently iterative outings yet.
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