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  • All the News and Trailers from Microsoft's X018

    Microsoft kicked off its two-day fan fest X018 today with a ton of new information on upcoming games and DLC, first-party studios, backward compatible games, and more.

    Get caught up on all the big news Microsoft had to share about the future of Xbox.

    Microsoft Acquires Two More Studios

    Joining the list of already great acquisitions this year, Microsoft announced it will be acquiring Obsidian Entertainment and inXile Entertainment.

    Both studios are storied RPG developers which should fill out the company’s games catalog moving into next generation.

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  • McDonald’s Canada Confirms Ronald Will Not Be A Fighter In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

    The internet is a weird place. With rumors spreading about the upcoming Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, one fan decided to ask McDonald’s Canada about the inclusion of a certain famous clown mascot. Why not, right?

    McDonald’s Canada promptly tweeted back a response, confirming that there are no current plans to bring Ronald McDonald to the upcoming game. 

    Hi Chris. Although seeing Ronald McDonald battle other characters in Smash Bros would be pretty neat, he will not be making an appearance in the new game as of right now.

    — McDonald’s Canada (@McDonaldsCanada) November 8, 2018

    Read about the roster, trophies, stages, and more for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate by heading here. It releases for Nintendo Switch on December 7.

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  • More Than 29,000 Dominoes Used In Incredible Red Dead Redemption II Tribute

    Red Dead Redemption II has been out for a few weeks now, and it been receiving massive success and record-breaking sales. YouTuber TheDominoKing, known best for his pop-culture and video game-related domino masterpieces, has dedicated his latest project to the massive open-world Western.

    With 29,375 dominoes, TheDominoKing portrays Arthur Morgan, Red Dead’s logo, and one of Arthur’s quotes. It took a week to create, and he started before he even played the game.

    “I started working on this video before I even had the chance to play the game, so I had high hopes for the game, which I can gladly say it lived up to,” writes TheDominoKing in the YouTube description.

    You can watch the short but impressive video below. 

    Check out our feature about the different directions Rockstar can take for Red Dead Redemption II’s story DLC. For more domino tributes, check out this one dedicated to Spider-Man.

    [Source: TheDominoKing on YouTube]

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  • See How The DS Was Able To Pull Off The Legend Of Zelda: Spirit Tracks In This Video

    See How The DS Was Able To Pull Off The Legend Of Zelda: Spirit Tracks In This Video

    The DS Legend of Zelda games are some of the series’ most forgotten. Eschewing traditional controls for a purely touched-based approach, both Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks split the Zelda community. I for one love their dungeons designs, but think Phantom Hourglass had issues with the central dungeon you had to revisit multiple times, while Spirit Tracks felt too small for a Zelda game and had several frustrating segments. Its central dungeon, however, was pretty good.

    Anyway, the latest episode of youtuber Shesez’s series Boundary Break takes a look at some of the tricks that makes Spirit Tracks tick. While there’s a classic movement trick pulled off here (moving the environment around an object instead of moving the object itself in order to simulate movement), there are some more interesting things to observe, such as several rooms reserved exclusively for your chats with a single side character, how objects in the world exist only when they’re in your view (this is fairly common in video game and is known as “culling,” but this is a pretty extreme case).

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  • Katamari Damacy Reroll Coming Early Next Month, Getting Demo At Launch

    Katamari Damacy Reroll Coming Early Next Month, Getting Demo At Launch

    If you’re looking relive your Katamari Damacy nostalgia or dive into the series for the first time, you won’t have to wait much longer.

    Bandai Namco announced that Reroll, which will launch on both Steam and Nintendo Switch, will release on December 7 (the same day as super Smash Bros. Ultimate).

    https://twitter.com/BandaiNamcoUS/status/1061030674910466049

    Along with the release date, Nintendo announced there will also be a demo available for the game when it comes out on Switch. This should let you test out the new two-player mode that uses the Joy-Con to let two players use the same Switch to play.

    https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1061030673899835392

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  • Crackdown 3 Secures February Release Date, Original Crackdown Free Through November

    Crackdown 3 Secures February Release Date, Original Crackdown Free Through November

    Microsoft has announced that its oft-delayed Crackdown 3 finally has a release date. The explosive open-world action title is set to launch on February 15.

    During its XO18 stream, Microsoft gave players a look at a new multiplayer mode that leans heavily on the environmental destruction the Crackdown 3 developers have touted since the initial reveal. In Wrecking Zone, destroying the city is one of the best ways to take down your opponents.

    To celebrate this news, Microsoft announced that the original Crackdown will be offered free of charge to all players through November 30. Players can redeem their copy (with Xbox One X enhancements) through the Microsoft Store.

    Crackdown 3 is set to launch on Xbox One and PC on February 15. Game Pass subscribers will receive access to the title at launch as a part of their subscription.

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  • Forza Horizon 4's First Expansion Takes Players To Fortune Island

    Forza Horizon 4's First Expansion Takes Players To Fortune Island

    Forza Horizon 4’s first expansion has been announced. Fortune Island whisks players away to the remote northern reaches of the British Isles.

    Weather plays a big role in Fortune Island, as extreme conditions bring about lightning storms, dangerous cliffside dirt roads, and a gorgeous backdrop of aurora borealis as players hunt for hidden treasure.

    Fortune Island launches on Xbox One and PC on December 13. The DLC is included with the Expansions Bundle, which grants access to two expansions for a reduced cost of $35. Owners of the Ultimate Edition or the Ultimate Add-Ons Bundle will get the expansion for no additional charge.

    For more on why we like Forza Horizon 4 so much, check out our review.

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  • New Preview Beta, Delta & Omega Rings 1811 Update – 11/11/18

    Starting at 2:00 p.m. PDT today, members of the Xbox One Preview Beta, Delta and Omega Rings will begin receiving a new 1811 Xbox One system update (181109-1527). Read on for more about the fixes and known issues in the latest 1811 system update.

    Fixes:

     

    System

    • Fixes to improve the stability of the console to fix the issue that some users were seeing consoles shutting down after taking a system update.
    • Fixes to stop the console freezing when accessing the console Settings menu.  Users will no longer see the Settings menu freeze or fail to load.

    Known Issues:

     

    Audio

    • We are tracking audio issues in which some games have audio that cuts in and out
    • Audio settings reverting to a previous settings after taking an update – Workaround is to please turn on your Audio Receiver prior to turning your Xbox One and the settings will not revert.

     Profile Color

    • Sometimes users may encounter the incorrect Profile color when powering on the console.

    See the rest of the story on Xbox Wire

    Related:
    New Preview Alpha Ring 1811 Update – 11/10/18
    New Preview Beta and Delta Rings 1811 Update – 11/10/18
    New Preview Alpha Ring 1811 Update – 11/9/18

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  • Spyro Reignited Trilogy Will Eat Up 67.5GB of PS4 Hard Drive Space

    Gobbled up.

    Spyro Reignited Trilogy sees all three of Insomniac Games’ classic platformers scaled up to PlayStation 4 standard, and it turns out that takes up a lot of hard drive space. Images posted on ResetEra by someone who sourced an early copy show that the game’s initial installation only takes up 31.5GB – but with patches applied you’ll be pushing double that.

    Bizarrely, the day one patch is around 19GB, but the total file size ends up at approximately 67.5GB, so there may be some compression to the update going on here. Regardless, you’re going to need a lot of spare space on your console – but what else is new in that department? Are you going to have to make room for the purple fire breather?

    Read the full article on pushsquare.com

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  • Obsidian, InXile Will No Longer Make PlayStation Games

    Both join the Xbox family.

    Microsoft has added two more former multiformat developers to its first-party roster, meaning that both Obsidian Entertainment and InXile Entertainment will no longer make PlayStation games. The former is perhaps best known for Fallout: New Vegas, while the latter created Hunted: The Demon’s Forge. Both studios have PlayStation 4 projects in the pipeline in Pillars of Eternity 2 and Wasteland 3, and presumably it’ll be allowed to deliver these before it turns its attention to full-time exclusives.

    These are the latest in spate of Xbox acquisitions, which have also seen the likes of Ninja Theory join the team in green. In the case of Obsidian Entertainment specifically, recent sales figures for Pillars of Eternity 2 painted it as a “sales disaster”, and there was some discussion that the studio was on the verge of collapse. As such, this is probably a win for everyone involved, even if it means we’re probably not going to see the Knights of the Old Republic 2 developer put anything on PlayStation again.

    Read the full article on pushsquare.com

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