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A game you play with your heart
I will meditate and then destroy you.
When it comes to collectible card video games, we're used to familiar controls: mouse and keyboard or a touchscreen for dragging and dropping cards onto the virtual board.
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Bungie reveals Destiny 2 gameplay changes for PC beta
The console beta helped a lot, it seems.
Bungie has outlined some of the gameplay changes it's made to Destiny 2 based on feedback from the recent console beta - changes that will make it into the upcoming PC beta, which kicks off on 28th August.
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South Park the Fractured But Whole is a mere two months away from its 17th October launch and Ubisoft has revealed the PC system requirements for its licensed RPG sequel.
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All the Jackbox Party Packs are coming to Switch
1 & 2 due next week, 4 to follow in autumn.
Party game collection Jackbox Party Pack 3 arrived on Switch back in April and now the rest of the series will follow.
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Xbox One and Windows 10 launch unfiltered XBLIG successor Creators Collection
As last gen's uncurated content is taken offline next month.
Xbox One and Windows 10 have launched a new section of indie games that aren't curated by Microsoft.
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Arma 3 expansion Laws of War is about defusing mines
Portion of proceeds go to the Red Cross.
Arma 3 is getting a new campaign expansion about decommissioning landmines.
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Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen comes out on 3rd October on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
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Destiny 2 has exclusive sparrow for Virgin Fibre customers
Red all about it.
UK Virgin Fibre customers will get an exclusive sparrow vehicle in Destiny 2, decorated in the brand's red and white livery.
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Yooka-Laylee patch will tone down gibberish voices
UPDATE: Update available on console, Switch version teased again.
UPDATE 10/8/17 3.45pm: Yooka-Laylee's first big update is now available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
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The mobile Titanfall RTS is out today
While we wait for Titanfall 3?
While we wait for another main game in the Titanfall series (Respawn recently said it's working on more Titanfall, so despite lower than expected sales of Titanfall 2, I reckon Titanfall 3 is on the way), there's a mobile Titanfall real-time strategy game to try.
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You wait 10 years for a World War 2 shooter, then loads turn up at once.
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Furious PayDay 2 players have blasted developer Overkill for adding a microtransaction system to get random loot with gameplay-changing effects.
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Payday 2 developer defends microtransactions
This is not a drill.
PayDay 2 producer Almir Listo has defended his team's decision to add paid microtransactions to the team crime shooter's PC version.
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PayDay 2 developer Overkill has tweaked the way one of its controversial in-game items works following an outcry over last week's addition of microtransactions to the game.
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Modern N64 controller a Kickstarter success
Button up.
The N64 was an incredible console with some amazing games. But, let's be honest, its controller was awful.
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Nearly two years after Fallout 4 came out, it's getting a Game of the Year Edition
Better late than never.
Nearly two years after Fallout 4 came out, it's getting a Game of the Year edition.
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There's an official football-themed PS4 controller
And it is horrendous.
I don't know who at Sony designs these custom PlayStation 4 controllers, but someone needs to have a quiet word.
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Splatoon 2 has beach-based summer costumes, too
Nab them before the event's over, watch.
Budge off BBQ Soldier 76. Leave it out, lifeguard Mcree. Farewell, femme fatale Widowmaker.
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Battlefield 1 now free to download from Origin and EA Access
Locked and loaded.
Battlefield 1 is now free to download from Origin and EA Access.
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Let kids play video games to "save the country", UK spy chief says
"Your poor parenting may be helping them…"
We're used to civil servants warning parents that playing video games rots their kids' brains. We're not used to them encouraging parents to let them get on with it because it might just save the country.
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Feature | One year on, is No Man's Sky the game it should have been?
Atlas scrubbed up.
When I fired up No Man's Sky last week, with an eye on today's anniversary of its release, my save file showed that the last time I played the game was in late August last year. I had reviewed it and kept playing for a couple of weeks afterwards; despite the storm of controversy and disappointment that raged around the release of Hello Games' sci-fi exploration game, some of it justified, I had enjoyed myself. It struck me as a hypnotic curio, built on moonshot technology, that deserved neither the slating it got nor the outsized hype that had raised expectations of it to the realm of fantasy.
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"Fundamental changes" coming to Xbox achievements
For people who only play a lot of one game.
A "fundamental change" to Xbox achievements is coming, Microsoft has teased.
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Feature | Beating Super Smash Bros. at its own game
The developer in love with the genre Nintendo created - who's now trying to better it.
Matt Fairchild's adult life has revolved around Super Smash Bros. Now, he's trying to make a game which rivals it - or that could even knock it from its perch.
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We went back to Super Mario Odyssey's demo and discovered even more
Hat's off to Nintendo.
It's been a week since I first played Super Mario Odyssey and got a brief glimpse at its brilliantly bizarre worlds - as well as its slightly baffling motion controls. It left a big impression, but I couldn't help feel like I needed more time to properly understand everything happening on screen before me.
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You can now play on first-person servers in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds group games.
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Anyone can now test Xbox One system updates earlier
Insider Program open to all.
The Xbox One Insider program is now available to all, with flexible levels of access for those who want fewer system updates.
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Ultra-rare shiny Pikachu released in Pokémon Go
If you live in Japan.
After Articuno, Moltres and Zapdos, Pokémon Go has released its latest limited-edition creature... Pikachu.
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Feature | PlayerUnknown: The glory of a gaming chemistry set
Bunsen burns.
In the days before it was decided that open world games should be called open world games, they were called all kinds of things. Things like sandbox games, or toybox games.
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Super Meat Boy is leaping onto Switch
There will be blood.
Classic minimalist platformer Super Meat Boy is coming to Nintendo Switch.
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Thimbleweed Park coming to Nintendo Switch
UPDATE: PS4 version due in August, Switch release planned for September.
UPDATE 09/08/2017 9.54pm: Thimbleweed Park should arrive on Switch in September, probably.
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