Reviews
- We’ve all been playing Pokémon GO. Tristan and I finished INSIDE…..what an experience. One of us will put a review up next week.
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PlayStation
- No Man’s Sky dev says game takes 6 GB on disk
- A new gameplay trailer for what looks to be a mini series of videos explaining No Man’s Sky has been released. This one focuses on exploration. Daney is super pumped while the rest of us remain cautiously optimistic. I feel like the game needs co-op. I want to explore planets with a pal.
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Game devs may begin submitting Neo compatible titles as early as next month if article linked to a link is to be believed
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Sony backpedals and removes Dualshock 4 support requirement for PS VR games
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Xbox
- Microsoft just announced a Gears of War 4 custom Xbox One S bundle. It’ll be $449 and include a 2TB hard drive along with the game for both Xbox and Windows 10. You can read all about it on Xbox Wire
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Subnautica, the excellent survival game based in an alien ocean, just received a massive update for Xbox One, bringing it up to par with it’s PC sibling. There are too many new features to list, so check out their video. Will and I love the game and you can grab it here for Xbox.
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Nintendo
- The wild success of Pokémon GO has caused Nintendo\’s stock to jump almost 40% adding around 8 billion to the company\’s market value
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Nintendo announced the NES Classic Edition, a mini NES bundled with 30 games
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Nintendo shares continue to rise as Pokémon GO surpasses Twitter for active users here in the US as well as Facebook for the most time spent in the app. I sure know everyone here at Pixelrater HQ has Poké-Fever—hell—even my wife is playing. Last night when I got home from work she showed me all the Pokémon she caught. Wanting to catch \’em all is definitely catching on.
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Industry News
- Star Wars Battlefront getting new Skirmish mode for free July 20 to enable offline single player and split screen play for both Walker Assault and Fighter Squadron modes
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Pokémon GO players on T-Mobile will get a slew of rewards for catching ‘em all on the uncarrier’s network. Daney has all the details in her write up
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A trailer for Pokémon Sun and Moon was released in Japan. As expected, it made Tristan squee with joy.
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Rumors
- Rumor has it Nintendo NX will debut next month at Gamescom after being absent at E3 and Tokyo Game Show. Nintendo also revealed GameCube in August years back.
