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Rock Band 4 PS4 DLC no-show drama rumbles on for another week
And the beat goes on.
Last week we reported on the plight of players of the PlayStation 4 version of Rock Band 4, who at the time had been waiting for thousands of DLC tracks already available on Xbox One and the North American PlayStation Store to be released on the European PlayStation Store - three weeks after the game came out.
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Avoid | Overlord: Fellowship of Evil review
Fillet minions.
Though far from perfect, the original Overlord and its 2009 sequel had one very important thing going for them: they were different.
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Eve Online's most famous player wants to novelise its most famous war
Has "all the ingredients of blockbuster fiction".
There are many novels written about video games (I own a few) but few like The Fountain War project that's raising money on Kickstarter right now. Whereas other books are stories imagined by game companies, this book will be about actual player events in Eve Online - sci-fi non-fiction.
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Data-miners reckon they've uncovered Street Fighter 5's DLC characters
Beat Capcom to the punch.
Six characters will be released as downloadable content for fighting game Street Fighter 5, Capcom has said. What it hasn't said is who they are. Data-miners, though, reckon they've found out.
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You can now buy PSN avatars on PlayStation 4
And some of them are awful.
PlayStation 4 users can now purchase a new avatar via the PSN Store.
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Feature | It's time to go public with my most disturbing Life is Strange theory
'Case study.
Stupid as it is, this article still contains genuine spoilers regarding the final two episodes of Life is Strange. You have been warned.
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Hearthstone adds co-op battle option
But just for this week's Tavern Brawl.
Hearthstone players will be able to buddy up and take on a common foe together for the first time this week.
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The new Age of Empires 2 expansion is called The African Kingdoms
And it's out this week.
Age of Empires 2 HD Edition's new expansion is out this week.
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Blizzard will no longer report World of Warcraft subscriber numbers
"There are other metrics that are better indicators of the overall business."
World of Warcraft subscriber numbers have been falling for years. The online game's real high-point was 12 million subscribers as third expansion Cataclysm launched in the autumn of 2010 - five years ago - and since then numbers have steadily fallen.
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Splatoon originally designed with toilet travel
It's a Wii.
An early version of Splatoon was designed to allow travel via urinals.
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Nearly 12 million people are still playing Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.
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Konami closes LA studio responsible for Metal Gear Online
UPDATE: Konami confirms closure, says Metal Gear Online will still hit PC.
UPDATE 4th November 2015: Konami has confirmed it's closed its LA studio responsible for Metal Gear Online.
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Feature | Dead and live: Silent Hill's strange afterlife
Yamaoka's concerts showed that the fanbase is alive and kicking, even if the series isn't.
I don't know how we got here. A sense of expectation as thick as fog hangs in the air of this hot, dark room. Not for the first time, I wonder how this is happening. How it is I am here, shoulder to shoulder, with my people, waiting, watching a cyclical stream of digital faces - faces I feel I know better than my own - flickering across the screen.
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Fallout gets its own official emoji in free app Fallout C.H.A.T.
Over 60 emoji, Vault Boy GIFs, and retro fonts.
Bethesda has released over 60 Fallout-themed emoji in a new free app for iOS and Android called Fallout C.H.A.T. (Short for Communications Hub and Transmitter.)
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Official PS4 In-ear Stereo Headset out December for £78/€90
Noise-cancelling, includes mic, plugs into DualShock 4.
Sony's announced an official PlayStation 4 In-ear Stereo Headset due December for £78/€90. It's out from 4th December in the UK and Ireland, and from 9th December across Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Middle East and Africa.
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The Jackbox Party Pack comes to retail via Telltale
You Don't Know Jack 2015, Fibbage and more make their physical debut.
Jackbox Games has partnered with Telltale to release retail editions of The Jackbox Party Pack, a collection including You Don't Know Jack 2015, Fibbage XL, Drawful, Word Spud and Lie Swatter.
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Here's your first look at Jakku in Star Wars: Battlefront
It's true. All of it.
Star Wars: Battlefront has revealed its first footage of Jakku, i.e. that desert planet with the crashed Star Destroyer from the second trailer for The Force Awakens.
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Epic announces new PC game Paragon
Teaser reveals first playable "hero".
Epic Games has revealed a new PC game called Paragon.
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Warcraft movie reveals first still images and poster
UPDATE: Teaser footage released.
UPDATE 3/11/15 5.00pm Here's a quick glimpse at the trailer, due Friday. Behold, 15 seconds of Warcraft movie footage plus analysis from our Blizzard buff Chris Bratt:
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Digital Foundry | Performance Analysis: Batman on PC is still a disappointment
Arkham Knight is back on sale - but it's still nowhere near good enough.
It's been four months from the initial release of the nightmarish PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight - an outsourced port so bad that the publisher felt it had no choice but to remove the game from sale. An interim patch was pushed out for existing owners last month, but a new 2.3GB update was unveiled on Wednesday, alongside a re-release of the game. Yes, Batman Arkham Knight is available for sale once more but the question is, are the major issues surrounding the title resolved? Is it actually worthy of purchase?
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Video | Watch: No Man's Sky - managing the hype
Oli interviews Sean Murray of Hello Games.
During last week's Sony conference at Paris Games Week, we were finally given a release window (though not a specific release date) for No Man's Sky. While still exciting, it was hard to shake the feeling that the announcement was somewhat muted compared to the game's previous conference appearances.
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Lego Dimensions addresses a major criticism with new Hire A Hero feature
Progress unblocked.
Toys-to-life adventure game Lego Dimensions has added a new Hire A Hero feature that allows you to play as characters you don't own yourself.
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Feature | The Old Republic's new expansion isn't quite Knights of the Old Republic 3
But it's a cracking addition to BioWare's Star Wars MMO.
Knights of The Fallen Empire, Star Wars: The Old Republic's newly released story-focussed expansion, isn't quite BioWare throwing its hands up in the air and finally giving us Knights of The Old Republic 3, but it's close. Very close. Even factoring in the rise of personal quests in the last few years, this is about nine hours of new content (with more to come) that completely sidelines the MMO side to the point that the very occasional shared area comes as less a surprise than a shock. Hello, fellow meatbag! What are you doing in my personal war to save the galaxy?
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Video | Watch: PTSD and video games
Low Batteries episode 3.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, is a multifaceted mental disorder that doesn't seem to get discussed very often; oftentimes it seems like one of those things that only happens to other people.
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The Destiny matchmaking debate rears its head yet again
As Bungie mulls future feature to "bring people together".
Destiny still does not offer matchmaking for much of its highest-level content, despite continued calls from fans for it to be added.
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Why Halo 5's radar is driving some players up the wall
So near, sonar.
Halo's radar is a Spartan's most useful tool. For years players have used the motion tracker to spot the movement of enemies who dare to enter their sphere of influence, red blobs flashing as aliens or enemy Spartans close in for a kill.
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Democracy 3: Africa announced as a standalone "re-imagining"
"When do you ever see Africa in a video game?"
Cliff Harris, the brain behind Positech Games (Big Pharma, Gratuitous Space Battles), has announced development of Democracy 3: Africa. It's a full-on "re-imagining" of the policy-juggling political strategy game Democracy 3, and will be standalone so you won't need the older game in order to play it.
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Konami sorry about incomplete PES 2016 transfer update
Being fixed ASAP "but will take some weeks unfortunately".
There's a problem with the Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 transfer patch that was finally released at the end of October: it doesn't include the final few days of summer football transfers which, as we know, are when a lot of moves tend to happen. It means the PES community has waited a long time for an incomplete roster update.
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Microsoft has shown off a video tour of the new Xbox One dashboard, which launches worldwide on 12th November.
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Activision acquires Candy Crush company King for $5.9bn
A king's ransom indeed.
Activision Blizzard has bought King, the company behind Candy Crush Saga, for $5.9bn.
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