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Gears 5 Boss Explains How It's Inspired by Mad Max: Fury Road
According to Rod Fergugsson, the boss of The Coalition, one of the bigger inspirations for Gears 5 and Gears of War is actually Mad Mad: Fury Road. More specifically, Fergusson pointed out that the story of Gears of War 4 was really the same story of Mad Max: Fury Road in the sense that Gears of War 4 is really the story of Kait Diaz, despite the playable character being JD Fenix, who was ...read more
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Steam Devs Seeing Large Removals From Wishlists Because Of Summer Sale
Quite a few developers have noticed Steam users deleting games off their wishlists since the Steam Summer Sale started this week. Developers which have noted the drop are attributing the deletion to the Grand Prix mini-game which is part of the Steam Summer Sale. Like previous mini-games, Steam users who are members of the daily winning team have a chance at winning a game included in their ...read more
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Epic Games drops exclusive Fortnite Wonder skin for Honor 20 phones
Epic Games loves a colab, especially when it comes to mobile gaming. Now when you buy one of the new Honor 20 flagship series of smartphones, you’ll get a free “Wonder” skin in Fortnite. The Honor 20 series includes the Honor 20 itself, the beefed up Honor 20 Pro, and the more budget-friendly Honor 20 Lite. All tout themselves as having strong gaming performance, but the key ...read more
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Pokemon Go Announces Third Anniversary Event
Pokemon Go is celebrating its third anniversary with some brand new Shiny Pokemon and some big bonuses. Today marks the third anniversary of the launch of Pokemon Go. The game broke multiple records and had a massive userbase when it first launched, and it still enjoys periodic runs to the top of the Apple App Store and Google Play Store's best-selling chart. To celebrate the game's continued ...read more
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Developer Unhappy With Microtransactions
Call of Duty developers, Treyarch -- the studio responsible for the Black Ops sub-series -- has apparently been in turmoil quite a bit lately, or at least that's what a new report claims. According to the report, there's numerous issues currently plaguing the studio, but one of the big points of frustration and unhappiness involves publisher Activision's "never-ending quest for increased ...read more
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Days Gone Developer Hiring For Its Next AAA PS4/PS5 Game
It looks like work on Sony Bend's next game after Days Gone is already underway, and potentially has been for quite some time. According to a new job listing for a producer, Sony Bend -- the team who released Days Gone onto PS4 earlier this year -- is hiring for its next AAA game, which is certainly a PS5 title. That said, the listing mentions PS4, so it's possible it's a cross-gen release or ...read more
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Apex Legends Season 2 Trailers Leak Revealing New Hero & More
Today, ahead of their official reveal later today, not one, but two Apex Legends Season 2 trailers were leaked, one more cinematic trailer teasing the story of what's going on with Season 2, and another showing off its gameplay and Battle Pass. Between the two trailers, Wattson is shown off plenty, a new hacker-type hero is teased (believed to be named Crypto), some map changes are revealed and ...read more
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Nintendo Open to Adding Games Outside of NES to Nintendo Switch Online
There is still hope to see Nintendo 64 and GameCube games on Nintendo Switch. Arguably the biggest critique of Nintendo’s online service, known as Nintendo Switch Online, is that the service only gives players a catalog of NES games to play. While Nintendo makes fairly consistent updates in games to play, players have been hoping for Nintendo to add games from other platforms to the program. ...read more
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Minecraft is getting a combat revamp on PC, Xbox One, and more
The popular Minecraft video game will be getting a significant revamp to its combat mechanics according to a Reddit post (via WC) made today on Reddit by the game’s chief creative officer, Jens Bergensten. In the post, Bergensten explains that they’ve been wanting to improve upon the combat system for a while now and that they’ll first begin testing it in the Java version of Minecraft ...read more
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Modern Warfare’s Game Engine Took More Than 5 Years to Develop
The next installment in the long running shooter series, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, is looking to do some different things with the series. One thing that’s also different is a new game engine that really catches the eyes. It looks pretty amazing. It also took a very long time to develop. We often think and talk about game development in the scope of individual games, usually taking three ...read more
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