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Digital Foundry | DriveClub vs DriveClub VR: the costs and benefits of virtual reality
Double the frame-rate and VR-enabled, Digital Foundry examines PSVR's most ambitious port.
It's one of PlayStation VR's most impressive titles. DriveClub VR is the best racer available for owners of Sony's HMD, and stands proud against many of its competitors running on much more powerful hardware. Clearly, visual compromises are made, but the final result still impresses: the sensation of being in the cockpit is immense, and finally, we actually get to see the racer running at the 60fps we always hoped for - 120fps if you factor in Sony's temporal upscaling. The question is - how was this achieved?
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Overwatch Christmas theme tune found, sets tongues wagging
Ana partridge in a pear tree.
How will the Overwatch theme tune sound after Santa gets his mitts on it? We already know! Thanks to Overwatch data dredgers discovering the Christmas theme in game files.
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Hot on the heels of the news that PES 2017 will today launch a Trial Edition, EA has said FIFA 17 is free to play on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One from this evening until the end of the weekend.
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PES 2017 has a permanent Trial Edition
Plus, Anfield's new main stand.
Konami has announced a permanent Trial Edition of PES 2017.
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Finally, you can play Solitaire on your iPhone, iPad or Android device and rack up Xbox achievements.
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Cancelled Tron game by the F.E.A.R. 3 dev revealed
Codename "TR2N: Liberation" featured seamless on-foot to lightbike transitions.
Back in 2008 F.E.A.R. 3 and Fracture developer Day 1 Studios was developing a Tron game to tie into the films sequel, Tron: Legacy. Unfortunately, Disney pulled the plug.
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Steam now has its own audience-voted GOTY awards
Choose "Best Use Of A Farm Animal" and create your own category.
Steam has introduced a new crowd-voting award system to grant various annual accolades to the cream of the gaming crop.
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Steam's autumn sale is now live
Save big on Just Cause 3, Hitman, Chivalry, Skyrim and more.
Steam's autumn sale is now live through 29th November at 6pm UK time.
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Majora's Mask CGI fan film is absolutely astonishing
A terrible fate has never looked this good.
Earlier this summer animation studio Ember Lab produced an absolutely terrific teaser trailer for a CGI short film based on The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. Now that dream has been realised in the following video, Terrible Fate.
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Overwatch's Symmetra is getting a choice of two ultimates
UPDATE: We take a look at her new photon barrier in action (it's brilliant).
UPDATE: Chris has been playing around with Symmetra's new build on the PTR today and has come away really impressed with her new photon barrier. If you use it correctly, you can effectively block a whole range of enemy abilities.
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UK retailer wants you to buy Nintendo Switch for £198.50 right now
Price protected 'til launch, but money taken upfront.
Nintendo has yet to set a Nintendo Switch launch date or announce a price. Regardless, you can put down £198.50 and reserve one today - and that's the maximum you'll pay.
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Lucio voice actor talks Overwatch fame and his unlikely friend in the biz
"He's the one who told me to do it years ago!"
Lucio voice actor Jonny Cruz, whose video of Overwatch voice actors goofing around recently spread like wildfire, once turned down some sage advice, years ago, from someone you've probably heard of.
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Sounds like Xbox One is getting a new Guide menu
And possibly replace snapped apps with handy in-picture view.
Xbox One will get a refreshed Guide menu and completely revamped Snap feature over the coming months.
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Frustrated Elite Dangerous players are trying to get Frontier to fix cheating
As developer admits failing to investigate some reports.
Frustrated players of Elite Dangerous are trying to get its developer to fix cheating within the game.
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Review | ICARUS.1 review
Inalienable isolation.
Perhaps you've seen a movie called Cargo? No, Jason Statham isn't in it. It's a dystopian sci-fi film from Switzerland that was a Netflix mainstay for years, concerning the crew of a space freighter and a potentially dangerous cargo that needed delivering to a distant station. Of course the movie description and thumbnail DVD cover had you believe Cargo was yet another attempt to clone Alien. Thankfully over the course of two hours the film revealed itself to be nothing of the sort and was all the better for being more of an indie thriller in space: a little bit of action here and and some tedium there, that together - thanks to an intelligent premise and some evocative set design - ended up being far more enjoyable than it's on-screen blurb was able to let on. A bit like ICARUS.1 in many ways.
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So, about that Assassin's Creed Ezio Collection glitch video
Ubisoft responds.
Ubisoft has responded to a viral video doing the rounds earlier this week which showed off the Assassin's Creed Ezio Collection in a pretty poor light.
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Video | Watch: Johnny and Ian play Killing Floor 2, bicker endlessly
Gore blimey.
If my years of watching schlocky horror films have taught me anything, it's that surviving a zombie apocalypse requires determination, good aim and, above all else, teamwork. With those things in mind, it really shouldn't have come as a surprise that my first foray into Killing Floor 2 with Ian Higton ended in disaster.
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Blizzard unannounced first-person project an Overwatch campaign?
"Didn't see that coming."
On the Blizzard careers website are two adverts for an "unannounced game/project".
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Saints Row 4 gets proper mod support three years after launch
Better late than never.
Saints Row 4 finally has proper mod support - three years after it came out.
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Street Fighter 5's latest stage banned from Capcom's own tournament because it's too distracting
Skies of Honor put in the hangar for Capcom Cup.
Capcom has banned Street Fighter 5's latest stage from its own tournaments because it's too distracting.
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Feature | How I learned to stop worrying and love Dishonored 2
Arkane's latest requires players also act as game designers.
What a confounding beast Dishonored 2 is. Like its predecessor, this is a game that gives players lots and lots of ways to murder people, then shames them for doing so. After every level it offers you a rating based on your conspicuousness and kill count. "Taking lives will cause Emily (or Corvo) and their allies to grow more cynical. Too many deaths will lead to higher levels of bloodfly infestation and a darker final outcome for the story" it tells you, wagging its schoolmarm finger in disapproval.
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Titanfall 2's first DLC drops next week with Angel City's Most Wanted
Maps and weapons are free, cosmetic items aren't.
Titanfall 2's first free DLC add-on will arrive next week with Angel City's Most Wanted. Those who pre-ordered the game will gain access to the add-on 30th November, while everyone else will have to wait until 3rd December.
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Charity bundle offers 151 games for $20
Includes Gone Home, Read Only Memories, Panoramical, Proteus, Sokobond and more.
Video game distribution portal itch.io is offering a collection of 151 games for $20 (about £16) as a way to raise money for charity.
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Outlast 2 dev launches Kickstarter for "companion diaper", really
"Because when you're scared, #2 can become problem #1."
Outlast developer Red Barrels has launched a Kickstarter campaign to create "companion diapers" for its upcoming horror game.
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Nintendo fan projects Pokémon Uranium and AM2R quietly pulled from The Game Awards
Pokémon Uranium community chief didn't even know about it.
The Game Awards quietly pulled two Nintendo fan projects from its nominations list, prompting questions about Nintendo's influence over the event.
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Sea of Thieves Insider Programme offers chance at testing early builds
"We will be looking for different kinds of people at different stages."
Sea of Thieves developer Rare is looking for player feedback on its upcoming open-seas multiplayer pirate game. How will the studio get feedback for a game that isn't out yet, you ask? Simple: it will offer prospective players early access to the in-development title should they sign up for the just announced Sea of Thieves Insider Programme.
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A New Frontier, Telltale's third season of The Walking Dead, will release its first episode on 20th December.
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Minecraft wings finally coming to console in December
My heart's aflutter!
Wings are finally coming to Minecraft: Console Editions in December.
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Xbox Games with Gold for December announced - and it's a good one
Burnout Paradise! Sleeping Dogs! Outlast! More!
Finally! Burnout Paradise has Xbox One backward compatibility!
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Video games and cinema have always made for awkward bedfellows, but this latest trailer for upcoming film Why Him?, featuring actual game developers, is especially odd.
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