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Superhot and its standalone expansion Superhot VR are coming to PS4 later this week, Sony has announced. They both arrive on the PlayStation Store on Friday, July 21 (July 18 in Australia, July 19 in Europe).

The base game had, until now, been exclusive to Xbox One and PC, while Superhot VR had only been available on Oculus RIft and HTC Vive. Each of the two games costs US $25 / £20 / AU $38, or you can grab them both as part of a double pack called the Mind is Software Bundle for US $40 / £33 / AU $60. PS Plus members can also pre-order them for 20% off until release day in each territory.

Sony says Superhot VR has been repurposed to fully support both PlayStation Move and standard DualShock controllers, as it previously required Oculus Touch controllers. Take a look at an E3 2017 trailer above.

We enjoyed the base game here at GameSpot, and critic Peter Brown called it a “clever game with deep, hidden elements.”

“After my first hour with Superhot,” he wrote, “I wasn’t convinced that it would be as interesting as I initially hoped it would. I thought that I understood it all, but I was so wrong. While the core gameplay didn’t evolve drastically, the story that drives it did, taking me along for a ride that I never saw coming. In doing so, it opened my eyes to possibilities within the game that I never considered. Superhot is a clever game with deep, hidden elements that require committed and thorough examination.” Read more in our full Superhot review.

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Xbox One X was officially unveiled at E3 2017, when Microsoft announced its new console would enhance a bunch of games to support 4K resolution. Now, the company has revealed two more titles that will be playable in “4K Ultra HD.”

On the official Xbox website, both The Evil Within 2 and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus now show the “Xbox One X Enhanced,” “HDR,” and “4K Ultra HD” logos. They join the new Xbox console’s growing list of 4K-supported games, which includes Crackdown 3, Assassin’s Creed: Origins, Sea of Thieves, and more.

In addition, a bunch of existing first-party Xbox games will receive updates to support 4K when Xbox One X comes out. These include Gears of War 4, Forza Horizon 3, Killer Instinct, Minecraft, and Halo 5.

Xbox One X launches November 7 for US $499 / £449 / AU $649. For more on the upgraded Xbox device, check out everything we know about Xbox One X.

The Evil Within 2 and Wolfenstein II were also both revealed at E3 this year. The former launches for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on Friday, October 13, and it recently received new gameplay clips–watch them here.

The latter, meanwhile, contains a combat mission in which you’re wheelchair-bound, which we thought was bold and empowering. It’s coming to PS4, Xbox One, and PC on October 27.

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Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age has debuted at No.1 for the week ending July 15, handing publisher Square Enix its first No.1 since 2016’s Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. The RPG forced the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy down from top spot last week to No.3 this, while retailer promotions help Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare to No.2.

Overwatch falls one place to No.4 meanwhile, despite sales actually increasing 82% week-on-week, according to sales monitor Chart-Track. Below that, the ever-present Grand Theft Auto V rounds off the top five in its 200th week on the chart.

Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age is the PS4 remaster of the PS2 classic, first released in 2006 (2007 in Europe). In our verdict, critic Miguel Concepcion said the spruced up version contains “a wealth of improvements and changes, delivering a fresh experience even if you’ve memorized the path from The Phon Coast to The Tomb of Raithwall.

“While its enhancements do not translate into a brand new game for existing fans, The Zodiac Age is nonetheless invigorating,” he continued. “For an experience that can last over a hundred hours, the subtle tweaks therein go a long way in showcasing Final Fantasy XII’s grand trek in a new light. Its epic, lore-abundant story and its time-tested Gambit System should also appeal to those who missed out on the mainline series’ trip to Ivalice the first time around. And thanks in part to the new audio and speed options, The Zodiac Age is an ideal definitive edition: one that improves the game over its original version across the board.”

Read more in our full Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age review, or check out our review roundup for a wider view of critical opinion on the RPG.

You can read the full top 10 sales chart below, courtesy of Chart-Track. Note this table does not include digital sales data, and so should not be considered representative of all UK game sales.

Top 10 UK Sales Chart

1. Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age
2. Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
3. Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
4. Overwatch
5. Grand Theft Auto V
6. Forza Horizon 3
7. Minecraft: Xbox Edition
8. Wipeout: Omega Collection
9. Horizon Zero Dawn
10. Injustice 2

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This weekend at the Evo 2017 fighting game championships, Arc System Works announced BlazBlue Cross Battle Tag. A 2D fighting game, Cross Tag Battle is a crossover title that features characters from franchises like Persona 4 Arena, BlazBlue, and Under Night In-Birth.

“Look forward to the tag team battle that no one has ever imagined!” reads a line from the game’s description (via Polygon).

Going off the first trailer, which you can see above, it looks like Cross Tag Battle is a 2v2 tag battle game where you choose characters from the different franchises.

Cross Tag Battle is scheduled to launch in 2018 for consoles, though there are no further details available about the game.

Here are some other stories from Evo 2017:

• Fan-Favorite Character Confirmed For Dragon Ball FighterZ Roster
• Tekken 7’s Next DLC Character Revealed
• Dragon Ball FighterZ Dev Comments On Switch Version, Cross-Play
• Street Fighter EX Dev Brings Skullomania Back For Its New Fighting Game
• Next Street Fighter 5 DLC Character Revealed

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Game of Thrones returned tonight for its seventh season, kicking off with the debut episode “Dragonstone.” We have a full rundown of the episode here. You’re probably already thinking about Episode 2, “Stormborn,” and now the first trailer for it has landed.

Obviously this trailer has lots of spoilers about what’s happening in Westeros, so maybe don’t watch this if you are not caught up. “Stormborn” airs on Sunday, July 23.

For even more on the first episode of the new Game of Thrones season, go to Entertainment Weekly to see what Arya actress Maisie Williams had to say about what her character did in the premiere.

In other Game of Thrones news, some of the series regulars have spoken out against online leaks.

There are seven episodes in this season, while the eighth and final season will have just six–though they could be longer than usual. Though Game of Thrones is coming to an end, there are pilots for as many as five spinoffs in the works.

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Kingdom Hearts 3 and the Final Fantasy 7 remake are two of the mostly eagerly anticipated games in development right now, and they’re being directed by the same man: Square Enix’s Tetsuya Nomura, who has previously worked extensively on both franchises. During a group interview at Disney’s D23 expo, he explained how the two new games have proved the perfect complements to one another for him as director.

“I don’t really feel any sort of hurdles or difficulty because the two titles are so different,” he said. “It actually works to my advantage because [they’re] so different. If both titles seem to have a sort of similar vein, both titles may start to look the same. So with the two being different, if there’s one thing that I could not do in one title, I might be able to do it in the other. It works out for me in that way.”

He added that the biggest challenge is simply how busy he is. “For example, we were making preparations to come here to D23 for Kingdom Hearts, and while we’re kind of in the rush to do that we have to schedule a mandatory meeting for Final Fantasy 7,” he said. “So juggling that I think is a big challenge as well, but it comes with the territory.”

Nomura also discussed how the developers are using Unreal Engine 4 to develop both Kingdom Hearts 3 and the Final Fantasy 7 remake. “With Unreal 4 there are a lot of different middleware that exist that is compatible and that we can utilize with the engine, so there’s no need to prepare everything from scratch on the development side,” he said. “So I think that has allowed for development to be smooth.”

He described how they’re customizing the engine to fit their needs, particularly on Kingdom Hearts 3, so that their games don’t look like other Unreal Engine games.

“For example, the effects, the visual effects that you see, are very highly regarded for Kingdom Hearts, but that’s actually one of the elements that the development team has customized on Unreal Engine 4 so that it is unique to us,” he said. “So games that are developed by other companies that utilize Unreal Engine may not be necessarily able to recreate those same kinds of effects on theirs.”

It feels like it’s been ages since we learned anything new about the Final Fantasy 7 remake, and Nomura wasn’t as eager to discuss it at D23 as he was Kingdom Hearts 3–for obvious reasons. There’s nothing new to share about the remake’s release date, but fans can at least take heart from one fact: If Kingdom Hearts 3 actually comes out next year, like it’s currently supposed to, it will seem like anything is possible.

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Disney’s big D23 convention takes place this weekend, and there’s a good chance it’ll be headlined by Star Wars: Episode VIII news. However, it’s also shaping up to be a good weekend for gamers, as there’ll be news about Insomniac’s Spider-Man game, Star Wars: Battlefront II, and Kingdom Hearts III.

The reveals are coming as a part of D23’s games show, called Level Up. It takes place tomorrow, June 15, at 1 PM PT/ 4 PM ET / 9 PM BST. It’ll be livestreamed on Twitch, Facebook, and YouTube. Gaming personalities JackSepticEye and Strawburry17 will be hosting.

Of the three games to be talked about, Kingdom Hearts III is perhaps the most mysterious. The game has been long in development, having been originally announced way back in 2013. We recently got a new gameplay trailer, but otherwise we haven’t heard much news about it. It’ll be interesting to see what Disney shows off this weekend. The game is planned for launch no earlier than 2018 for PS4 and Xbox One.

Star Wars: Battlefront II, meanwhile, launches on November 14 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. It’ll feature a full single-player campaign, and it will have an open beta test this October. Insomniac’s Spider-Man is a PS4 exclusive, and we got our first look at gameplay at E3 2017. Check out the gameplay video here; Insomniac says its open world will be much larger than that of one of its previous games, Sunset Overdrive.

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We teamed up with Activision to give away twenty (20) Destiny 2 Early Access Beta Codes. To enter for a chance to win, scroll down below.

Destiny 2’s early-access to the Open Beta begins on these dates and platforms:

• July 18th at 10:00AM Pacific on PlayStation 4
• July 19th at 10:00AM Pacific on Xbox One

This is NOT an instant win. Competition ends Monday, July 17, 2017 at 5:00PM Pacific. Twenty (20) winners will be contacted via email with their early-access code. Entry is open worldwide. Codes are for the Early Access Open Beta only and do not give access to the full game when it launches officially.

The beta will open up to everyone on July 21st. These codes get you in earlier. See what you’ll experience in the Destiny 2 beta here. Ahead of the official game launch, you can now link your Blizzard and Bungie accounts.

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