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FINAL FANTASY XV – 101 Trailer

2016/11/21

LOS ANGELES (Nov. 21, 2016) – To prepare for the launch of FINAL FANTASY® XV, SQUARE ENIX® today revealed a new introduction trailer highlighting everything players need to know before beginning their epic journey through the world of Eos on November 29. The trailer delves into the game’s deep story, real-time combat system, magic spells, summons, and introduces the four main characters.

Additionally, a free “Crown Update” will also be available for players to download automatically at launch. The update is the result of some additional time for development since mastering the full game, and provides a variety of updates, minor bug fixes and new features to greatly enhance the overall story and gameplay experience.

The upgrade provides enhancements for several elements within the game including:

Improvements to the camera with new options to better assist and track the action in tight space and to improve visibility during battles
New event scenes and scenes from KINGSGLAIVE: FINAL FANTASY XV™ and the “Omen” trailer have also been added to the game to make the story and timeline of events easier to follow for newcomers
The addition of an ability tree for the “Wait Mode” function which improves the strategic element of this feature
Players can obtain the “Beast Whistle” which can be used to call monsters to battle
A wider variety of recipes and fish with an addition of a gallery for completionist players who enjoy collecting items
Implementation of social media support, allowing the photos Prompto takes along your journey to be uploaded to Facebook and Twitter

Following news of copies of the game going on sale ahead of the release date, Game Director Hajime Tabata issued the following message to the fans:

“The November 29th release date is approaching and I sincerely hope everyone enjoys this game with a fresh state of mind. Unfortunately, there has been an unauthorized distribution of the boxed edition of FINAL FANTASY XV in select regions and we have noticed that gameplay footage from people playing these copies has appeared online. Though this type of situation is brought on by various region specific circumstances and may not be something that is completely avoidable, we are very regretful of this situation.

One of the major goals of FINAL FANTAr3SY XV is for everyone to enjoy the story and to discover the surprises together through the simultaneous worldwide release. Due to these recent events, videos with unexpected spoilers could potentially be posted online, so we would like to warn everyone who has been waiting in anticipation for this game.

We will also do everything in our capacity to prevent unauthorized footage from appearing online. We would also like to ask anybody that has obtained an early copy of the game to be respectful to those that are looking forward to the official release and to not spoil the surprises for everyone.

A large and dedicated team have worked extremely hard to make this game and to create a FINAL FANTASY that everyone can enjoy. It would be a huge regret for us if the excitement of the launch was to be spoiled for so many when we are so close to release.

Your understanding and cooperation would be much appreciated so we can celebrate the best possible release together.”

NBA 2KVR Experience Available on November 22

2016/11/21

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Geek News, News, PlayStation 4 News, Windows PC News

New York, NY – November 21, 2016 – 2K today announced NBA® 2KVR Experience, the first virtual reality basketball game immersing players in a new, entertaining NBA environment filled with the sights and sounds of fun mini-games and challenges. Available beginning on November 22 on PlayStation®VR, HTC Vive™, and Samsung Gear VR, the new experience continues the dominance of the NBA 2K series.

“Our team consistently looks for new ways to deliver unique, fun experiences for the gamer,” said Greg Thomas, President of Visual Concepts. “NBA 2KVR will give fans even more access to our franchise and test new skills across entertaining VR challenges.”

In the NBA 2KVR Experience, players will join NBA 2K17 cover athlete and All-Star Paul George, as they step onto the court at the Indiana Pacers’ stadium, Bankers Life Fieldhouse. Paul George will also provide commentary and guide the player by offering tips to help improve their skills in mini-games, which include three-point shootout, a speed and accuracy skills challenge and the buzzer beater countdown. Players can earn a variety of Gatorade fuel boosts that will aide their shooting acumen, speed, recovery and more to help reach the top of the leaderboards.

“As a lifelong fan of NBA 2K, it’s exciting to see them take the leap into VR, and even more exciting that it’ll be on my home court,” said Paul George, cover star of NBA 2K17. “I can’t wait for fans to dominate on the virtual court with virtual help from Gatorade.”

NBA 2KVR Experience is rated E-10+* by the ESRB, and launches November 22^,2016 for $14.99 on the HTC Vive™ and PlayStation®VR, Samsung Gear VR, and will be available for Oculus Rift worldwide.

Grinding Gear Games Announces Path of Exile: Breach

2016/11/21

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Auckland, New Zealand – November 21, 2016 – Grinding Gear Games announced today that it will launch a brand-new content update (2.5.0) for their hit online ARPG, Path of Exile at noon pacific time on Friday, December 2nd, 2016.

Path of Exile: Breach Features:

Enter the Breach: Tears in the fabric of reality have formed throughout Wraeclast. Engage them to expose an alternate realm and reveal those who dwell there. Slay monsters inside the Breach to keep it open long enough to reap your bounty.
Challenge the Breachlords: Deep in the Breach, you may draw the ire of horrific new bosses: Breachlords. The more damage you inflict on them, the more treasure they’ll part with during their escape.
Conquer a Breachlord’s Domain: Among the riches found in the Breach, you may also encounter Splinters. Combine 100 Splinters of the same type together to create a Breachstone. When placed in the Map Device, a Breachstone allows travel into a Breachlord’s Domain, the one place where they are truly vulnerable.
Treasures of the Breach: Monsters from the Breach drop new unique items that are specific to their Domain. When slain in their Domain, Breachlords can drop Blessings that allow these new uniques to be upgraded.
Performance Improvements: Content Update 2.5.0 includes the release of our new 64-bit Path of Exile client that uses DirectX 11. It’s a lot faster than the previous version and includes technical improvements such as new fog and cloth physics systems.
Breach Supporter Packs: To celebrate the Breach league, we’re launching two new Supporter Packs. These exist alongside our current Atlas of Worlds Supporter Packs and feature points, forum titles, portrait frames, a weapon effect, a portal effect and an entirely new type of microtransaction: Cloaks.
And Much, Much More! Alongside the Breach league and the new renderer, this update also includes many other changes such as piles of new Unique items, a new Channeling Support Gem, Unique Golem Jewels, a revamped Forsaken Master leveling experience (with many usability improvements) and graphical improvements to early Act One areas.

Path of Exile Key Features Include:

Download and play for free, but never pay-to-win
A dark and deep action RPG
Unlimited character combinations with the game’s gigantic skill tree
Combine skill gems to create unique combat strategies
Explore a dark and gritty world rendered from a fixed 3D perspective
Explore randomly generated levels for nearly infinite replayability
Craft weapons, magic items and even end-game maps to become more powerful
Cooperate or compete with thousands of other Exiles in a persistent online world
Ascend online ladders in every game mode

Path of Exile was released in October 2013 to critical acclaim including winning GameSpot’s PC Game of the Year award. Since its launch, Path of Exile has become a world community of over 14 million players including localized versions in Traditional Chinese, Russian, Thai and Brazilian Portuguese.

Path of Exile: Breach, like every release of PoE, is completely free-to-play (and of course, never Pay to Win – This means that your success in the game is dependent on the depth of your skill, not your wallet). More information about Path of Exile: Breach can be found at www.pathofexile.com/breach

Combat Air Patrol 2 Air Refueling Trailer

2016/11/18

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Geek News, News, Trailers / Videos, Windows PC News

November 18, 2016 – It’s been a while since we last emailed you so we wanted to get in touch to give you a quick round-up of the CAP2 developments over the past few weeks. Depending on where you have been following us you may already be aware of some elements.

Latest version

We are now at v809.1 which is currently live in the Beta and VR Beta channels and will transition to the default branch ASAP.
As well a couple of crash fixes, general bug squashing and copious minor improvements, the following are present in this build.
Steam launch options for 2D, OpenVR & Oculus.
New carrier with animated elevators, deck crane and deck tugs.
Air to Air refuelling – KC767 tanker with realistic hose physics. Check out the video here.
You can check out the full details and over at the dev blog
We’ve also added several new screenshots and videos to our website

What’s next?

Further v809 updates will include populated target ranges, updated MFD & radar displays together with RCS (Radar Cross Section) logic.
Cockpit updates are progressing well. Aside from modelling one of the major updates will be the mirror reflections. You’ll be able to specify varying levels of reflection fidelity plus we’re considering adding adjustable mirrors.
Automatic support for Thrustmaster MFD Cougar panels is also on the way.

Space Hulk: Deathwing 17 Minutes of Single Player Gameplay

2016/11/18

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November 18, 2016 – Space Hulk: Deathwing, the upcoming first-person shooter set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, features a solo campaign written in collaboration with Black Library author and Dark Angels specialist, Gav Thorpe, as well as cooperative multiplayer. With only one month left until release, you can now watch 17 minutes of uncut gameplay from the solo campaign. Clocking at around 15 hours of gameplay in normal difficulty mode – more when playing on harder difficulty and if players take time to explore, finding hidden relics on the way – the campaign boasts huge environments, with lots of optional areas and secret rooms to discover.

In the solo campaign you play as a Librarian of the Dark Angels’ 1st Company, the Deathwing, taking on swarms of Genestealer in the Space Hulk Olethros with Storm Bolter and Force Sword in hand. The Librarian is a Psyker, granting him access to powerful psychic abilities such as chain lighting, a powerful lightning bolt, which arcs between multiple enemies; and Shockwave, which blasts enemies back from you. You will need to utilize the full armory of the Deathwing company, your powerful psychic abilities, as well as the squad members under your command to fend off the xenos threat.

The Genestealers adapt their behaviour, based on their numbers, their type, and your actions. Commanding your teammates to cover you, block doors to prevent genestealers from flanking you, heal you, or hold a key position, is vital to survival in the depths of the Space Hulk. By playing the campaign you also unlock new weaponry for use by you and your squadmates, along with gaining experience to spend on three skill trees to unlock powerful new abilities.

Space Hulk: Deathwing is available for download on PC, December 9 before landing on consoles in early 2017. Pre-purchasing through Steam will gain you access to the pre-order beta, beginning end of November.

Pre-order now the game on Steam and get access to the pre-order Beta, 15% off and one in-game weapon – the Lost Mace of Corswain.

Fallout Shelter Update 1.9 Brings New Quests and Thanksgiving Celebrations

2016/11/17

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November 17, 2016 – The award-winning Fallout Shelter continues to grow larger and larger on both mobile and PC platforms this month with the release of Update 1.9, which delivers all-new Quests including an exciting new location – the Caves – plus fun Thanksgiving celebrations including new stickers for iOS 10 iMessage.

Update 1.9 Content Includes:

New Location for Quests – Cave: In addition to abandoned buildings and derelict Vaults, Overseers can send Dwellers on spelunking adventures in a brand-new backdrop that will be immediately familiar to Fallout 4 fans – dark, mysterious caves.

New Quests: Update 1.9 introduces even more Quests for the demanding Overseer, including new regular, weekly, and special event Holiday Quests during the Thanksgiving celebration.

Holiday Festivities: The holiday celebrations continue in the Vault! In November, the Fallout Shelter Thanksgiving event will unlock limited time Quests, specially themed room visuals, and Thanksgiving outfits available in Lunchboxes. In December, Overseers will also celebrate Christmas and New Year’s with additional limited time quests and special rewards.

New iMessage Stickers: Building on the popularity of the Halloween stickers, Update 1.9 will introduce special Thanksgiving-themed stickers for iOS 10 iMessage users. In addition, new stickers based on the Fallout 4 Nuka-World mascots, Bottle and Cappy, are available now.

Fallout Shelter is available for free on Android and iOS devices as well as PC. To download the game, players should visit Google Play, the App Store, or, on PC, by downloading the Bethesda.net Launcher at the following link: http://download.cdp.bethesda.net/BethesdaNetLauncher_Setup.exe.

For more information on Fallout Shelter, please visit www.FalloutShelter.com.

Planet Coaster Official Launch Trailer

2016/11/16

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Geek News, News

With Frontier Developments releasing their theme park simulator, Planet Coaster, tomorrow – here is the game’s official launch trailer!

Combat Arms Begins Huge Operation Janus Update

2016/11/16

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Berlin, Germany – 16th November 2016: Nexon Europe today initiated Operation Janus, consisting of Graphics Engine, UI/UX and Matchmaking updates for the online FPS, Combat Arms.

Operation Janus Beta begins with the overhaul of the original LithTech Jupiter engine, which now supports advanced graphical features comparable to modern game engines. Players will eventually have the option of either selecting the original or updated engine, whilst allowing players with different graphics setting to play on the same server.

Early 2017 will see the second part of Operation Janus with the implementation of the UI/UX and Matchmaking updates. The User Interface will be even easier to navigate with the aspect ratio, changing from 4:3 to 16:9, games being accessible in just two clicks, and users being able to customise their own shortcuts to suit their personal taste. To conclude this evolution process, players will then enjoy a brand new matchmaking system, which provides them with a balanced gameplay experience by matching them with players of a similar skill level.

Beta key distribution for the first phase of Operation Janus started today, allowing selected players to test the improved engine. Players can connect with the Combat Arms team through the official website, forums and social media, for a chance to grab one of the most-wanted access keys.

For further information on all updates, visit the official blog posts:

Graphics Engine: http://combatarms.nexon.net/en/Devblog/View/224/1

UI/UX: http://combatarms.nexon.net/en/Devblog/View/227/1

Matchmaking: http://combatarms.nexon.net/en/Devblog/View/230/1

Stay up-to-date by visiting http://en.combatarms.nexoneu.com/intro/ or liking the official Combat Arms Facebook page.

Lincoln Logs Turn 100

2016/11/16

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Hatfield, PA, – October 2016 – K’NEX Brands, the only US construction toy company focused on Building Worlds Kids Love®, is excited to celebrate the 100th birthday of LINCOLN LOGS in 2016!

Developed in 1916 by John Lloyd Wright, the son of famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, LINCOLN LOGS has been entertaining children for 100 years. Licensed by Hasbro, LINCOLN LOGS, a brand known for quality and durability has become more than just a toy…it’s an authentic piece of Americana! In 2015, in anticipation of the centennial, production of the iconic log building toy was brought back to the United States for the first time in nearly 60 years!

Beloved for generations, playing with LINCOLN LOGS has become a rite of passage. If you haven’t played with a LINCOLN LOGS building set in a while the smell of the real, authentic wood once you open the tin is guaranteed to bring back memories! K’NEX recently brought 2 generations of fans together for a LINCOLN LOGS play date at the Wiley Christian Retirement Community in Marlton, NJ. The residents and children had a blast building together and it was all captured on film! The video can be viewed on the official LINCOLN LOGS Facebook page and has captured nearly 200,000 views on YouTube in less than 2 weeks!

The 2016 made in the USA LINCOLN LOGS line includes the 100th Anniversary Tin, Collector’s Edition Village, Country Meadow Cottage, Forge Mill Cabin and more!

LINCOLN LOGS Building Sets are available NOW on knex.com and at all major toy retailers.

ROCCAT Announces Cross Gaming Headset

2016/11/15

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Geek News, News, Tech News

Hamburg, November 15^th 2016 – Gaming has gone multi-platform and become ubiquitous. Todays’ gamer demands a perfect gaming experience, no matter which platform is used. The ROCCAT Cross replaces the need for separate headsets on PC, console or mobile devices. The Cross is the multi-platform over-ear stereo gaming headset that is with you everywhere.

The ROCCAT Cross features large 50mm neodymium magnet driver units, which ensure studio-grade sound. The earcups as well as the drivers are perfectly aligned to the ear, providing maximum comfort and top notch immersive sound experiences everywhere you go. Cross delivers superior audio quality, not only in games, but also in music, film and voice communications.

The ROCCAT Cross sets a new standard in terms of style and comfort for gaming audio. It is an on-trend headset with an understated black design. It provides a snug fit thanks to memory foam earpads that adapt uniquely to each wearer, which provides a new level of comfort. Measuring just 7 oz (200g) in weight, it is more than 2 oz (55g) lighter than competing headsets in the same class.

In order to provide a fluid multi-platform experience, the ROCCAT Cross comes complete with dual microphones, one designed for PC and one designed for mobile use. Each of the two mics is built into an anti-tangle cable, both of which are provided with the Cross. The mics are detachable and plug into a neatly-placed port on the underside of the left earcup. While gaming on PC or console, choose the boom-arm mic for superior voice communication quality. While out and about, use the discreet and unobtrusive in-line mic. The ROCCAT Cross is with gamers everywhere they go.

The ROCCAT Cross hits stores on December 8^th and will be available for €/$69.99