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The upcoming Destiny sequel has been “rebooted,” according to a report from Kotaku. Additionally, the site claims there was a staff reorganization and The Taken King director Luke Smith is now leading development on Destiny 2.

This information was mentioned in a new report about Destiny’s rumored Rise of Iron expansion. A poster for this expansion recently popped up on Reddit and was verified by two sources at Kotaku. The add-on will reportedly be announced at E3 and released in September.

“From what we hear, Destiny 2 was recently rebooted, with Taken King director Luke Smith taking the reins of that project in the wake of a Bungie staff reorganization,” Kotaku reported.

The nature and extent of the reported reboot was not detailed.

Destiny 2 was officially announced in February as part of the Activision Blizzard earnings report. There is basically nothing to go on yet about this game, as all Activision has said is that it’s a “full game sequel” that’s due out in 2017.

Fans won’t have to wait that long for more new Destiny content, however, as the new expansion referenced above is due out later this year. All Activision has officially said is that this year’s expansion is a “large new” one. This suggests it could be on par with The Taken King, rather than the smaller The Dark Below or House of Wolves DLC releases.

According to Kotaku’s sources, the Rise of Iron expansion will add a new raid that is thought to be themed around the Fallen. The raid is “based loosely” on a raid that was cut out of 2015’s House of Wolves, sources said. Overall, the expansion is rumored to be “larger” than The Dark Below and House of Wolves.

You can read Kotaku’s full report here, as well as the site’s big January piece on Destiny’s development here.

Destiny has three expansions thus far: The Dark Below, House of Wolves, and The Taken King. More recently, the game celebrated hitting 30 million registered players.

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Starting today, May 20, the Nintendo 2DS portable system is cheaper than ever. The previously announced price cut on the system kicks off today, bringing the handheld’s price down to $80 from $100.

The system launched in 2013, priced at $130. The first price cut, in August 2015, brought the system down to $100. This is the second price cut for the entry-level device.

The 2DS plays almost the entire library of Nintendo 3DS games, but of course without the 3D effect. The system’s standout feature is its design. Unlike past models, this one does not have any hinges.

Nintendo says, “the unique design is built to make it easy for smaller hands to hold.” The price cut is for all 2DS systems, including the bundle that comes with Mario Kart 7.

Head to the Nintendo 2DS landing page on Nintendo’s website to learn more and see a list of retailers.

2DS is considered part of the 3DS family, which has sold 58.85 million units as of March 31. However, there is no word on how many 2DS systems specifically have been sold.

Nintendo’s next system, codenamed NX, is rumored to be a console/mobile hybrid, though the company has yet to share specifics. The system goes on sale in March 2017; it is not expected to show up at E3.

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Just how big is the map in DICE’s upcoming free-running sequel, Mirror’s Edge Catalyst? Pretty big, apparently. The developer has released an interactive 3D map that shows off the game’s Anchor District.–and this is just one of the explorable spaces in the game.

“The whole city will be explorable,” DICE said on Twitter. Today we’ve only shown you the Anchor district, but more will follow.” A follow-up tweet mentioned about the entire map, “It’s huge. And we’ll show you more in the coming weeks. Excited?”

Head to the Catalyst website to poke around the 3D interactive map to learn more.

GameSpot recently played Catalyst and our hands-on impressions can be found here. The game was originally expected to launch on May 24, but after a delay, it’s now due out on June 7 for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.

One reason for the delay was to give DICE extra time to address the feedback it received from Catalyst’s closed beta. “We’re confident that these extra two weeks will make sure the game is as amazing as possible for you the players,” the developer said when announcing the postponement.

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A fifth season of quirky comedy Arrested Development is “definitely” going to happen–but not soon. Creator Mitch Hurwitz told Esquire that everyone involved is interested in shooting the next season, but a deal hasn’t been reached yet due to the actors’ busy schedules.

“One of the challenges has been a big studio owns it and they don’t make TV this way typically,” he said. “They sign actors for multiple years of a show, and then they shoot. We’ll get half of the actors available and we won’t quite commit to making the deal, then we’ll lose the other half of the actors.”

Hurwitz said he’s pushing extra hard to make a deal for Arrested Development season five because he thinks there is a “great story to tell.” One of the plot points of the fourth season that is planned to continue in the fifth focuses on a political race, Hurwitz explained. The writers were also “building to a murder mystery” that would be further explored in the next season.

He’s confident a deal will eventually be reached, but that likely won’t happen before this November’s presidential election.

“It’ll happen. It’ll definitely happen,” he said. “Not before the election, but it’s definitely going to happen. I say that because the actors want to do it, the studio wants to do it, Netflix wants to do it, I want to do it. It’s just making it happen. There’s no one resisting.”

Hurwitz is also working on a recut of the fourth season “to make it airable on TV.” This process involved redoing all of the narration and reshooting “a few little things,” he said.

Arrested Development‘s first three seasons aired on Fox in 2003-2006. Netflix revived the series for a fourth season, all 15 episodes of which debuted on the streaming platform in May 2013.

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Frontier Developments has made some big announcements about Elite: Dangerous: Horizons. First, the studio confirmed today that the expansion to the space adventure game will launch for Xbox One on June 3.

The base game launched on Xbox One in April.

The Xbox One edition of Horizons will include the base game and two expansions: Planetary Landings and The Engineers. These add-ons include things like additional missions, new crafting possibilities, and a new vehicle in the form of the Surface Recon Vehicle.

Frontier also confirmed today that The Engineers expansion comes to PC on May 26. Launching alongside that will be Elite Dangerous’ “biggest ever” free update for all players on all platforms.

Here is what it includes:

“A new mission system, collectable loot, and hundreds of gameplay additions and tweaks. Xbox One players will further benefit from the addition of Private Group play and fully customizable controls.”

Going forward, Frontier mentioned that PC and Xbox One players can expect further expansions, while updates to the game will arrive simultaneously across both platforms. Here is a breakdown of what’s to come:

• Multicrew, allowing teams of players to assume roles aboard the same ship.
• Commander Creation, giving a unique appearance to players’ in-game avatars.
• Ship-Launched Fighters, allowing larger spacecraft to carry their own short-range fighter craft for attack and defense.

Lastly, Frontier announced that, beginning today, Horizons is available as an upgrade to Elite Dangerous for the lower price of $30. You can also get the game on PC in the Commander Deluxe edition for $60.

On Xbox One, Horizons will launch on June 3 as an upgrade to Elite Dangerous for $30, while the Commander Deluxe edition will also be offered on console for the same price.

Elite Dangerous was one of the first titles in the Xbox One’s Early Access-style Game Preview program. The game is also coming to PlayStation 4, but a release date has not been announced.

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The movie adaptation of the hugely popular Ubisoft game series Assassin’s Creed might still be months away from release, but the the last few weeks have seen plenty of promotional activity. We’ve had new imagery, the first trailer, and assurances from Ubisoft that the film will actually be good. Now a new, striking poster has been released. Check it out below:

Assassin’s Creed stars Michael Fassbender and comes to cinemas on December 21, 2016. The movie is directed by Justin Kurzel, and co-stars Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson, and Michael Kenneth Williams.

In March it was reported a sequel was already in development, and that Fassbender was on board. Despite the mediocre track record of video game movies, the calibre of the cast and Ubisoft’s commitment to creative control over this project are unusual.

Ubisoft’s head of content Azaïzia Aymar sought to assure fans last week that this film would stand apart from previous attempts to bring popular games to the big screen. “There is always a first,” he stated on Twitter. “Assassin’s Creed will be that one, mark my words.”

Additionally, with no new mainline Assassin’s Creed game coming out this year, the film’s marketing team has more space and opportunity to promote the picture, according to Ubisoft.

It has also been reported that a VR experience is being developed, to tie into the release of Assassin’s Creed. As reported by Eurogamer, it will feature scenes “filmed alongside the movie.” It is being made by Fox Studios and the VR company Practical Magic.

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Nioh developer Team Ninja has revealed the adjustments being made to the game based on feedback from the alpha test.

Following the end of the demo period, the studio invited players to complete a survey and offer their assessment on the overall experience, controls, graphics, character design, UI, and other aspects of the game.

“Thank you to all who played the Nioh Alpha Demo,” it said on the game’s website. “In just 10 days, over 850,000 gamers around the world took up the challenge of Nioh.

“We also appreciate the tons of valuable feedback many of you also gave through our online survey. The dev team has read through the feedback and is coming up with improvements to make the final game even better. We’re working on those improvements right now, and will have more information on the game soon.”

The changes being made can be found below, along with the results of the survey.

Overall

• Add tutorials regarding the game system.
• Adjust balance mainly in the opening sections to make battles fairer.• Improve controls and camera system.
• Improve the understandability and usability of the UI
• Improve graphic performance

Details

Tutorials

• Implement a training stage for tutorials on basic controls and core game actions.

Action & Controls

• Improve player & camera behavior during lock-on.
• Change the conditions under which the player character becomes unresponsive when the Ki Gauge is empty.
• Expand item shortcut slots.
• Revise the objects which require holding a button and the response to the hold input.
• Improve detection for the half-circle analog stick input.

Enemies

• Adjust attack and defense parameters of enemies.
• Revise enemy pursuit of the player.
• Revise superarmor (stagger/no stagger) for each enemy and attack
• Adjust Revenant AI.

Level Design/Stages

• Improve exploration elements such as shortcuts, etc.
• Add hints to guide players to boss areas.
• Revise the display of objects that block the view of the player character.
• Adjust fire area damage.

UI

• Improve layout and displayed information.
• Adjust text size.
• When making an offering at a shrine, allow the player to perform all actions at once.

Online

• Improve online synchronization.
• Allow the host to use the Shrine menu during co-op play with a Visitor.
• Adjust the rate at which enemy parameters increase during co-op play.

Other

• Remove durability stat for weapons and armor.
• Adjust the drop rate for equipment.
• Add a new control type.
• Implement a flow to allow players to exit a mission.
• Fix other bugs.

Nioh is set to release this year exclusively on PS4.

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