Notable Game Releases
- No Man\’s Sky
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PlayStation
- Invitations have gone out for a press event on September 7 about \”The Business of PlayStation\” aka the PS4 Neo reveal. And maybe more on PlayStation VR?
- Pushsquare reported on stickers being used to cover up the online play logo printed on some limited edition copies of No Man\’s Sky. Sony has since responded with the following statement, ”Incorrect descriptors were incorporated into the original No Man\’s Sky limited edition packaging. This was a production issue and was rectified using placement stickers.” While the situation is believable, it came at a time where fans and players are disappointed at the lack of any traditional multiplayer components.
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Xbox
- After what sounds like a rough developer beta for Halo Wars 2 , the team at 343 said in a recent blog post that changes are coming. There will be adjustments to controls, leader abilities, bases, resources, energy, and population. Most importantly are fixes for connection issues as well as UI tweaks. You can read more in depth details in the post linked above.
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Microsoft has acquired interactive media streaming service Beam according to a post on Xbox Wire. It sounds to us like they\’re trying to get in the ring with Twitch and more recently YouTube Gaming.
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Nintendo
- Nintendo sent out takedown notices to those hosting AM2R (Another Metroid 2 Remake). The developer has since encouraged players to support the eShop release of Metroid 2 rather than throw shade at Nintendo
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They also ordered archive.org to remove the recently archived Nintendo Power magazines
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Pokémon Sun and Moon will get their own manga starting September 15 thanks to CoroCoro Comics
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Bethesda said they are \”definitely looking at\” at bringing their games to NX and that \”We talk to Nintendo all the time—we\’re pretty well briefed on what they are doing.\”
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After nine years in the making Pokémon Uranium, a fan made labor of love, has released. Nintendo will no doubt shut this down as well
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A new wave of Nintendo Selects (hand picked titles priced at $19.99) will release along with a special edition bundle containing_Super Mario 3D Land_ and a new 3DS with Mario face plates
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Industry News
- Players have already discovered more species in the first day of No Man\’s Sky than what exist on Earth
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The Pokémon World Championships will not be open to the public this year according to a post in the site. They suggest anyone who booked flights and hotels should cancel them stat.
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CD Projekt Red announced that a GOTY edition of The Witcher 3 (one of Will\’s favorite games) will release for a cool $49 on August 30. It will include all free DLC as well as the Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine expansions.
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Good news for those of you excited for Respawn\’s Titanfalln2 release. Word comes from Polygon that the campaign will feature a more thoughtful story clocking in at around eight hours.
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Late last night a post went up on the official No Man\’s Sky blog acknowledging some of the biggest bugs—including the much talked about warp drive issue—along with fixes for most of them. It\’s a really heartfelt read and definitely reassuring for the future of the game moving forward.
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THQ, who went bankrupt and was purchased by Nordic Games in 2014, lives on as Nordic changes their name to THQ Nordic
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Rumors
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According to Destructiod, new images of concept art for Destiny 2 have surfaced on Reddit, hinting at some class changes
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Three new patents have surfaced from Nintendo that back up the detachable controller theory for NX. You can check out the patent images over at IGN.
