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A major area of focus for PlayStation this year has been in the area of hardware. Sony launched the PlayStation 4 Slim, the PlayStation 4 Pro, and PlayStation VR.

According to PlayStation Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida, fans can expect “amazing software” to be released in 2017 to take advantage of the hardware.

This came up in a 4Gamer interview, which was translated by DualShockers.

A number of developers were quoted in 4Gamer’s year-end interview feature. In addition to Yoshida, Bloodborne producer Teruyuki Toriyama mentioned that his team is working on “ambitious titles” and ideas for new games simultaneously. No suggestion was made that any of these are Bloodborne 2.

There are a number of exciting and intriguing PS4 games in development right now, including a new God of War, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, Horizon: Zero Dawn, and Persona 5, just to name a few. Not all of these are confirmed for 2017, however.

What PS4 games are you looking forward to? Let us know in the comments below!

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Christmas has come and gone, but there are still some deals to be had on video games.

Now through the end of the year, you can get a bonus gift with the purchase of an Xbox One or Xbox One S at a number of US retailers. The bonuses include things like an extra controller, a stereo headset (white or black), or a free game. Here is a breakdown of what’s available, as written by Microsoft:

• Best Buy, Amazon, Walmart.com — Free Xbox Wireless Controller
• GameStop — Free Xbox Stereo Headset in white or black
• Target and Microsoft Stores — Free game of your choice

Additionally, many stores are offering a $50 gift card with the purchase of a new Xbox One, which stacks on top of these bonuses.

The Xbox One (and PS4) were offered for $250 as part of a limited-time price cut for the holidays. Some stores are still selling the systems for that price.

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The newest weekly Heroes Brawl event for Heroes of the Storm is now available–and as you’d expect, it has a winter theme. The game mode is called Snow Brawl, and it involves chucking snowballs.

There are two types of snowball items–fluffy snowball and heavy snowball. You can pick them up throughout the map, and you’re able to hold one at a time. As usual, the goal is to destroy the enemy side’s core. You can see the full rundown of Snow Brawl rules below.

Players who complete three matches will earn 1,000 Gold and this rad-looking portrait:

Snow Brawl Rules

As written by Blizzard (via DualShockers)

• Snowballs
  • Pick from one of three randomly selected Heroes before entering the Cursed Hollow. Be quick about it though, you only have 30 seconds to choose!
  • Two types of Snowball items will appear on the ground throughout the match
    • Fluffy Snowball
      • A speedy snowball that hits a single enemy Hero in a line skill-shot while ignoring Minions and Structures
      • Knocks targets back and deals significant damage
    • Heavy Snowball
      • An area-targeted explosion of snow that deals extra damage to non-Heroic targets
      • Adds a 60% slow to all damaged targets that decays over 2 seconds
    • Throw Snowball ability will appear next to your ability bar when you are holding a Snowball (Default Hotkey: F)
    • Heroes can walk over Snowballs to pick them up and can only hold one Snowball at a time
• Tribute Spawns
  • When the first tribute phase arrives, two tributes will initially spawn together – one five seconds after the other.
  • When a player picks up a tribute, a new one will spawn somewhere else after a 5 second delay, meaning there will generally be two tributes alive.
  • This type of “rolling” tribute spawning continues until either team is cursed.
  • Tributes do not spawn during a curse or for 60 seconds after a curse.
  • The event will never spawn enough tributes to allow both teams to get cursed at the same time.
• Destroy the enemy team’s Core to win the match!

In other news about Heroes of the Storm, Blizzard recently revealed the game’s newest playable hero character.

For more on how other games are celebrating the holidays, check out GameSpot’s roundup.

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2017 is a big year for Zelda. The series celebrates its 30th anniversary next year, and the newest entry, Breath of the Wild, comes out for Nintendo Switch and Wii U.

We’ll have to wait a while longer to play the RPG, but Nintendo has now released even more art from it. Posted on Facebook, the images include concept art for Link, the very nice holiday scene (below), and a third that shows Link hunkering down and starting a fire to stay warm. Click through the images in the gallery below to see them all (via DualShockers).

Breath of the Wild comes out in 2017 for Wii U and Nintendo Switch. Though a specific release date has not been announced, it’s rumored that the game will miss the Switch’s launch in March.

For more on Breath of the Wild, check out these new gameplay videos for the game that debuted at The Game Awards.

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Hall of Fame QB Brett Favre is famous for his comebacks–now he’s returned to the Madden series.

Multiple versions of the QB are now in Madden NFL 17‘s Ultimate Team mode as part of the game’s Ultimate Freeze event. Additionally, Chemistry level 4 is switched on when Favre is teamed up with some of his former teammates such as Sterling Sharp and Antonio Freeman.

There are two 96-rated versions of Favre that you can use to unlock what’s called the “Gunslinger Ability Chemistry.” One is available only for a limited time (follow this Twitter account to find out how to earn this) and the other is a Master Set Reward.

Watch the video above and read this EA Sports blog post to learn more about Favre in Ultimate Team.

In other Madden news, EA has released a silly new video in which cover star Rob Gronkowski jokes about the Madden Curse–watch it here.

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Director Guillermo del Toro has spoken out again to criticize Konami, the publisher he was working with for the canceled Hideo Kojima game, Silent Hills.

“F**k Konami,” was his message. Tweeting today on Christmas, del Toro joked about that being as true as other messages this time of year. Here’s the tweet:

Del Toro showed up in a recent trailer for Kojima’s next game, Death Stranding. The very weird trailer aired during The Game Awards this month, and it featured none other than del Toro himself alongside Hannibal star Mads Mikkelsen.

This isn’t the first time del Toro has publicly criticized Konami. Earlier this month, he had the same message: “F**k Konami.”

For its part, Konami has said it remains “committed to new Silent Hill titles,” though none have been announced. It added that the Silent Hills game was not actually very far in development, claiming it was only in the “embryonic” stage.

Silent Hills wasn’t the first video game project involving del Toro that fell apart. The director was working on a horror game called Insane with publisher THQ, but it never materialized, in part due to the company’s bankruptcy. After being burned twice, del Toro has said he doesn’t intend to try to make a game of his own again.

“I have proven to be the albatross of video games,” he said last year. “I joined THQ, and THQ goes broke. I join Kojima, and Kojima leaves Konami. I have decided, in order not to destroy anyone else’s life, I will never again get involved in video games. Otherwise, I’ll join someone and his house will explode, or something.”

Del Toro’s newest project, the animated Netflix show Trollhunters, is out now.

This story has been updated.

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