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  • Weekly Recap: Top 10 Best-Selling Games of November, Nintendo Switch Less Powerful Than PS4

    0 CommentsPosted by on December 17, 2016 under Gamespot
    THE BIG STUFF:It's that time again. The NPD Group this week announced the Top 10 Best-Selling games in the US for the past month. Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, of course, came out on top for November. Meanwhile, the PS4 broke the Xbox One's win streak to become the best-selling console during the month. While Nintendo won't share more details on the Nintendo Switch until its January event, a rep... more.
  • Terry Crews Wants to Be in Overwatch, Visits Blizzard

    0 CommentsPosted by on December 17, 2016 under Gamespot
    Terry Crews visited the Blizzard headquarters this week to meet with the Overwatch team, sparking speculation that he may end up voicing a yet unannounced character.In a recent thread on Reddit, Terry Crews said, "I would LOVE TO PLAY DOOMFIST," via a verified account at the suggestion from a fan.This sparked a lot of excitement from Reddit's Overwatch community, with the thread recording 1222 res... more.
  • Awesome Art Picks: Westworld, Wonder Woman, Jean Grey, and More

    0 CommentsPosted by on December 17, 2016 under Gamespot
    Each week we search and gather up the coolest comic book art you won't see in actual comics. The reason you won't is because professional artists often draw sketches for fun or commissions and post them on their websites, blogs, and Tumblrs. Some artists even arrange commissions through their sites so be sure to check them out. This is a way to see the artists working on one book draw characters f... more.
  • LOTR: David Bowie Was Considered for Gandalf, Casting Director Reveals

    0 CommentsPosted by on December 17, 2016 under Gamespot
    Earlier this year, Lord of the Rings actor Dominic Monaghan talked about how David Bowie might have auditioned for the role of Elrond or Gandalf in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings. Now, the movie's casting director has set the record straight. According to Amy Hubbard, Jackson did in fact want Bowie to play Gandalf. However, Hubbard said Bowie did not audition for the role that ultimately w... more.
  • EA Basically Confirms Star Wars: Battlefront 2 Has Single-Player; No Plans to Revive 1313

    0 CommentsPosted by on December 16, 2016 under Gamespot
    Star Wars: Battlefront was generally well-received, but some--including Star Wars actor John Boyega--lamented the fact that it didn't have a single-player mode. EA has teased that the sequel may have a single-player mode in the past, and now it's all but confirmed.As part of an incredibly interesting Achievement Oriented podcast, EA's Justin McCully talked about how the focus of 2015's Battlefront... more.
  • Star Wars: Rogue One Made $30M at Thursday Premiere – Report

    0 CommentsPosted by on December 16, 2016 under Gamespot
    The newest Star Wars movie, Rogue One, officially opens today, December 16. The rollout began with midnight showings--and those were massively popular, it seems. Deadline reports that the film's Thursday night midnight showings in the US brought in around $30 million. That's down 47 percent from the record-breaking $57 million that The Force Awakens made for its Thursday night premiere this month ... more.
  • Resident Evil 7 Gets a Creepy New Japanese TV Trailer

    0 CommentsPosted by on December 16, 2016 under Gamespot
    For at least the second time this week, Capcom has released a new TV spot for Resident Evil 7. The newest video, posted to the Japanese Resident Evil YouTube channel (Resident Evil is known as Biohazard in Japan), takes viewers inside the creepy house of horrors that is the Baker home. As you'll see, there are all manner of nightmares dwelling within. The trailer's use of the "Aunt Rhody" song ham... more.
  • "Destiny Is Never Finished," Bungie Says

    0 CommentsPosted by on December 16, 2016 under Gamespot
    With 2016 coming to a close and no new Destiny expansions announced, fans of the series may be looking forward to Destiny 2, or whatever it ends up being called, which comes out in 2017.Activision has confirmed the game, but it has yet to be formally announced. In Bungie's latest weekly blog post, the last one for 2016, the developer teased its ongoing Destiny development."We'll get back to busine... more.
  • NES Classic First-Month US Sales Revealed

    0 CommentsPosted by on December 16, 2016 under Gamespot
    As part of its November report, the NPD Group announced this week that Nintendo sold around 196,000 NES Classic Edition consoles in the US during the month. The figure likely would have been higher had the system not sold out almost immediately following its launch on November 11."In its debut month, the NES Classic Edition sold 196,000 units, leading the retro console segment," NPD analyst Sam Na... more.
  • Nintendo Share Value Falls After Super Mario Run Release

    0 CommentsPosted by on December 16, 2016 under Gamespot
    Following the release of Super Mario Run on December 15, Nintendo's shares dropped by five percent, knocking around $1.1 billion off the company's market value. By the time the market closed in Tokyo, share value recovered slightly and it ended the day with an overall decline of around four percent.This is despite the fact that Super Mario Run reached the No.1 spot on Apple's free games chart in m... more.