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2006’s Xbox 360 role-playing game Blue Dragon is coming to Xbox One by way of backwards compatibility, Microsoft gaming boss Phil Spencer has revealed in a funny way.

Asked straight up if the game was coming to Xbox One, Spencer said, “I’m not allowed to say but yes.”

Spencer didn’t say when Blue Dragon will land on Xbox One, however.

Blue Dragon, which was developed by Hironobu Sakaguchi’s Mistwalker (read our review here), shipped on Xbox 360 across three discs. In May, Microsoft introduced support for multi-disc backwards compatibility titles, beginning with Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director’s Cut.

There are now more than 200 Xbox 360 games playable on Xbox One through backwards compatibility. You can see a list of all of them right here.

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Microsoft has not talked about it in a very long time, but Steven Spielberg’s Halo TV show for Showtime is still on the way, it seems. Asked on Twitter what was up with the project or if it was dead, Spencer stated, “Alive.”

That’s not much, but confirmation that it’s not cancelled is something. This follows news from August 2015, when Showtime boss David Nevins confirmed the TV show was in “very active development.”

The Halo TV show was at one time expected to debut in fall 2015 alongside Halo 5: Guardians, but of course that didn’t happen. It’s unclear exactly what’s holding the project up, but it’s not uncommon for Hollywood productions to take a long time to come to fruition.

The Halo show was announced in May 2013 as part of the Xbox One reveal event. We still don’t know much about it, but Spencer has said before that the show won’t just be “filler.”

After production house Xbox Entertainment Studios shut down in 2014, the fate of the project was called into question. But Microsoft quickly stepped in to say the show would not be affected.

Before that, reports suggested that District 9 director Neill Blomkamp may direct the pilot.

One of Spielberg’s next projects is 2018’s gamer movie Ready Player One, which he’s directing. He’s also going to be behind the camera for 2019’s Indiana Jones 5.

Disclosure: GameSpot and Showtime are both owned by CBS.

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The upcoming sci-fi sequel Alien: Covenant is now one year from release, and a new video has been released from the production to celebrate. It shows star Katherine Waterston in hypersleep, and was posted on the Alien franchise’s official Facebook page. Check it out below:

Alien: Covenant is directed by Ridley Scott, who helmed the original Alien, plus 2012’s sort-of prequel Prometheus. It was originally announced as a direct sequel to Prometheus, but has subsequently gone through a couple of name changes to align it closer to the Alien series. The cast also includes Michael Fassbender, Danny McBride, Billy Crudup, and Demian Bichir.

In a recent interview with Collider, Fassbender was asked how Covenant would compare Prometheus, in which he also starred. “It’s much scarier than Prometheus,” he said. “It’s kind of got more of the sort of thriller, imminent disaster feel that Alien had, so it’s kind of a beautiful meeting of both of those films. I’m really excited to see it, I think it’s gonna be super scary number one, [but] with the massive scope of Prometheus.

“Once it starts and the ball starts rolling, it doesn’t let up. It’s really gonna bring chills to the cinema.”

A number of images and videos have been released from the production over the past few months. Last week, McBride revealed the interior of a spaceship cockpit, while another pictured Waterston on-set, alongside Scott. An earlier clip showed prosthetic work on a familiar appendage, and previous images have included Waterston in character and the insignia for the ship referenced in the title.

Alien: Covenant hits theaters on August 4, 2017.

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Christopher Nolan is best known for his blockbuster comic book and sci-fi movies, with the likes of the Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, and Interstellar making him one of the most successful directors today. His latest film is an epic World War 2 thriller called Dunkirk, and it arrives next summer. A first teaser has been released–check it out below:

The cast included Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh, Mark Rylance, and Cillian Murphy. The film is set in 1940, and focuses upon the plan to rescue 300,000 Allied troops who were trapped on the Dunkirk beaches in France by the German army.

While this is the first proper look at the movie, several on-set images were revealed when production began in May–check them out here.

Dunkirk will be released on July 21, 2017.

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PlayStation Australia has partnered with Nissan to reveal details for the upcoming Nissan PlayStation GT Academy live events. The GT Academy program started in 2008 and allows for players to enter for the chance to become a professional racer.

This year’s Australian GT Academy events will see entrants play a pre-release edition of Gran Turismo Sport. The qualifying events will select 20 participants to go on to compete at the Australian National Final, which will be held at Warner Bros Movie World. Finalists will be tested using Nissan cars in Gran Turismo Sport, and will also undergo fitness tests, media conferences, and track driving challenges.

From there, the top six finalists will be flown to England to compete against the world’s best at the 2016 GT Academy International Race Camp. The winner of this event will go on to the Nissan Driver Development Program, which qualifies them for an International Race Licence.

The events will take place on the following dates and locations. The locations marked with an asterisk will require an entry fee to be paid.

• August 14: Federation Square, Melbourne
• August 26-28: Red Rooster Sydney SuperSprint at Sydney Motorsport Park*
• September 7-9: Warner Bros Movie World on the Gold Coast*

More details on how to enter and purchase tickets can be viewed on the Nissan GT Academy website.

Gran Turismo Sport will be released exclusively on the PlayStation 4 on November 15 in North America, November 16 in Australia, and November 18 in Europe. We recently spoke to series producer Kazunori Yamauchi, who shared six interesting facts about the game.

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Mobius Final Fantasy is out now on iOS and Android devices. Mobius isn’t like other mobile Final Fantasy games, in that it features a brand new story penned by Kazushige Nojima, the writer behind Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy X.

Mobius Final Fantasy’s story synopsis makes it sound like a pretty standard JRPG adventure full of prophecies and chosen ones. I’m guessing you’ll end up saving the world at some point.

“Despair has cast a long, dark shadow across this land,” the synopsis reads. “The winds have stopped, the seas churn, and the earth rots. The people await for a hero to appear–the hero foretold in an ancient prophecy: ‘When darkness shrouds the land, the Warrior of Light will come. Hope rides in his wake.’ After a long journey across the Ether, castaways without pasts appear on the shores of Palamecia. One of them is destined to become the warrior of legend. You stand among them. Are you the hero whom the prophecy foretells?”

GameSpot’s Alexa Ray Corriea took a look at Mobius Final Fantasy and found that even though the graphics were impressive, the rest of the game was “lacking.”

“After spending several hours with Mobius Final Fantasy, the incentive to return to its world is moderately low,” she said. You can read her full preview here.

Brave Exvius is another mobile Final Fantasy game that released recently. It features dungeon crawling, teaming up with Final Fantasy heroes, and tap-based combat.

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Hello Games’ No Man Sky is just a few days away from release, but if the wait is proving difficult you may be interested in listening to the soundtrack, which has been made available in its entirety online.

The game’s soundtrack was created by experimental rock band 65daysofstatic which signed on to make the music after they were approached to license one of their tracks for a trailer.

“Way back in 2013 we received a request to license the track ‘Debutante’ from our album We Were Exploding Anyway for a promotional trailer for No Man’s Sky,” explained band member Joe Shrewsbury, in an interview with The Independent. “We were intrigued by the game, and asked to learn more, and the more we learnt the more we wanted to be involved.

“We made it abundantly clear that if they didn’t have someone lined up to do the soundtrack, we’d be interested. Fortunately for us, they were fans of our music already, and we met up with Sean not long after that, and were subsequently offered the project.”

The soundtrack features 10 songs, each titled with an appropriately sci-fi bent, such as Asimov, Heliosphere, Hypersleep, and of course, End of the World Sun. You can listen to it in full through the video above. The soundtrack will be available to purchase from August 5.

No Man’s Sky launches on August 9 for PS4 and PC, but someone managed to get a leaked copy of it and claims to have “beaten” the game in about 35 hours. Developer Hello Games has confirmed it is already working on a rather large update.

“5am at Hello Games. Wrapping up a month of work on our first update,” said Sean Murray on Twitter. “Lots of new features, balancing and content.”

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