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Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is now available to preorder. Sony and Microsoft are encouraging you to pick up a digital copy by offering some special incentives. Everyone who preorders the futuristic FPS from either the PlayStation Store or Xbox Store will receive 1,000 Call of Duty Points for use in Call of Duty: Black Ops III.

Call of Duty Points, a form of virtual currency, were introduced to Black Ops III last year. 1,000 points normally sells for around $10, but if you don’t own Black Ops III, this preorder bonus isn’t too exciting.

Sony is further encouraging you to preorder the PS4 version by offering a new theme. It’s a dynamic theme, featuring some music, as well as particles that float around in the background. You can see the theme in action through the video below, from YouTube user MadMoneyBanks (via DualShockers).

The Call of Duty Points bonus and dynamic theme are available with the preorder of any version of the game, including the $60 base package, the $80 Legacy Edition, and the $100 Digital Deluxe version.

The Legacy and Digital Deluxe editions also come with the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare remaster. Infinite Warfare launches on November 4 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. It appears that Activision is not bringing the game to last-generation consoles.

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Microsoft is celebrating indie games this month with a new promotion that aims to highlight the “breadth of amazing content” that is currently available in the ID@Xbox program.

Every week in May, Microsoft will spotlight some “very special games,” which will include new releases. There will be a theme for every week, as well as discounts on the featured games.

The ID@Xbox Game Fest, as it’s being called, starts this week with the theme “Discover.” Highlighted games include The Park, Beyond Eyes, and Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime.

Looking ahead, the schedule for subsequent weeks will include:

• May 10-16: Play for Free — Will highlight free-to-play games like Smite, Warframe, and Roblox.
• May 17-23: What’s Next — This will spotlight Game Preview titles like The Long Dark and The Souls Project.
• May 24-30: Best of ID@Xbox — This week will highlight “indie standouts” like Rocket League, Rogue Legacy, The Escapists, and The Banner Saga.

“Since the days of the original Xbox, I have been a huge fan of independent games that bring us incredibly creative and unique experiences you just cannot find anywhere else,” Xbox executive Aaron Greenberg said in a statement. “The innovation of great games coming from developers in the ID@Xbox program is incredible.”

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EA has detailed the May update for Star Wars Battlefront, which is expected to be available for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC today.

Among the tweaks introduced in the patch are a fix for player invincibility while entering vehicles, cooldowns on the Combat Roll ability, and improvements to the game’s overall stability. Take a look below for the full notes.

General

• Added a system which allow players to see if an enemy currently has a charge card active by adding an icon above the enemies’ health bar.
• PC: Made it so that combat roll triggers on press, and not on release.
• PC: Pressing enter will now open the chat channel.
• Vehicles: Resolved an issue which would make players invincible after attempting to enter a vehicle.
• Vehicles: A timer has been added to Imperials exiting vehicles. Before they could instantly leave certain vehicles.
• Vehicles: Increased the time to enter a speeder bike from 0.3 to 0.5s.
• Combat Roll: Performing a melee attack at the same time as a combat roll will no longer break the animation.
• Combat Roll: Resolved an issue in which players couldn’t see another player performing a combat roll.
• Combat Roll: There’s now a 1.5s cooldown.
• Deluxe Edition: Resolved an issue in which the upgraded version of Ion Torpedo was awarded instead of the regular version.
• General: Various tweaks to the auto balance and matchmaking systems.
• General: Updated various error messages used in game.
• General: Updated the localization to resolve various text bugs.
• General: Resolved various clipping issues.

Stability

• Disconnect: Fixed an issue in which players were getting disconnected after observing another players profile in the social hub while playing In game.
• Disconnect: Pressing the up arrow in the private match lobby would cause players to disconnect to the menu if they hadn’t visited the game modes screen.
• Crash: The player will no longer crash when observing the Shadow Trooper diorama figurine.
• Crash: Resolved a rare crash issue which could occur if a player joined another server while waiting in the in-game lobby.
• Crash: Resolved a crash issue which could occur when reaching max rank and getting to the End of Round screen.

UI

• UI: The issue with score and credits being displayed as 0 = 0, has been resolved. Now the correct amount of score and credits obtained will now be displayed in the End of Round flow.
• UI: Resolved an issue which would occur when a player is Rank 60, but the End of Round flow would display the rank as 59.This also resolves other various desync issues with stats.
• UI: Soldiers heads aren’t obstructed anymore in the appearance menu by the unlock price.
• UI: Removed a blur effect that was present over the soldier in the deployment screen on certain levels.
• UI: The kill card will now show which trait card the enemy currently has equipped.

Weapons & Star Cards

• Personal Shield: Players can now use the shield at the same time as the Jump pack.
• Personal Shield: Players can now swap weapons at the same time as the shield is active.
• Charge Cards: The duration timer would be decreased by half when standing close to the shipment in the game mode Extraction. Now it’s only the charge card cooldown that is decreased by half when standing close to the shipment.
• Dioxis Grenade: Added a new scoring event for when you deal damage.
• Dioxis Grenade: Now the player will not be able to inflict self-damage when throwing a Dioxis Grenade next to a vehicle and then entering it.
• Dioxis Grenade: Increased the inner radius from 3 to 4m.
• Dioxis Grenade: Increased damage ticks. Increased inner radius damage from 6 to 7. Outer radius damage increased from 4 to 5. A total of 12 health will be dealt each tick when standing in the inner radius.
• DLT-19X: Removed a moment penalty that would occur when zooming in.
• DT-12: Raised rate of fire from 180 to 220.
• Relby-V10: Raised max damage from 24 to 25.
• RT-97C: Lowered weapon sway, Min 0.25 to 0.2, Max 2 to 1.5.
• Blaster Cannon: Increased inner explosion radius from 1 to 1.5m and the outer explosion radius from 1.5 to 2.5m.
• Blaster Cannon: Increased explosion damage from 25 to 34.
• Active Cooling: Made the fields slightly wider to make it easier even on the harder levels
• Ion Detonator: Will explode on impact instead of after a delay.
• Ion Detonator: Lowered inner explosion radius from 6 to 2m and the outer explosion radius from 7 to 4m.
• Ion Detonator: Lowered the damage multiplier towards soldiers from 0.5X to 0.4X.

Heroes

• UI: Hostile orbital strikes will no longer appear in the blue color while playing as a hero. Now a red color is used.
• Darth Vader: Players killed by Darth Vader’s deflection will now correctly see his image in the kill card.
• Darth Vader: Players who are currently being choked will not be able to interact with ingame objects, such as uplinks.
• Darth Vader: Increased the damage output on Darth Vader’s Force Choke ability. It also now removes the effect of Adrenaline Stim.
• Leia: Trooper Bane ability will now pass through shields.
• Greedo & Nien Nunb: Other players are now unable to spawn on them when they are being attacked.
• Greedo: Resolved an issue in the UI for the confidence ability which didn’t update correctly once the confidence decreases.
• Greedo: Changed Confidence 1 damage multiplier from 1.4 to 1.3. Confidence 2 damage multiplier from 1.9 to 1.7. Confidence 3 damage multiplier from 2.8 to 2.4
• Nien Nunb: Increased Proximity mine cooldown from 8 to 9s
• Nien Nunb: Decreased Rapid Pulse Canon damage multiplier to AT-AT from 150% to 100%
• Nien Nunb: Increased turret Lock Time from 0.8 to 1
• Nien Nunb: Increased Turret Unlocking Time from 0.2 to 0.25
• Nien Nunb: Decreased Augmented Turret damage from 22 to 20
• Nien Nunb: Decreased Turret damage from 15 to 14
• Luke: Increased Health from 925 to 1050
• Luke: Increased Blocking time from 4 to 6s

Game Modes

• Outer Rim: Increased the frequency of Extraction being played in the Outer Rim playlist from 50% to 75%. Two rounds of Extraction will now be played every other round.
• Hero Hunt: Resolved the issues which allowed there to be two heroes at the same time.
• Hero Hunt: Resolved a rare issue in which the interface would not appear after spawning in as a Hero in Hero Hunt.
• Hero Hunt: Removed the hero selection wheel. Now only showing the score and appointing the top damage dealer to become the next hero.
• Heroes Vs Villains: Decreased rounds required to win from 5 to 3 rounds if played in the Outer Rim playlist
• Heroes Vs Villains: Decreased time until first round starts from 60 to 30 seconds
• Heroes Vs Villains: Decreased time between round end and next one begins from 30 to 10 seconds
• Fighter Squadron: Resolved an issue in which you could spawn in to a different vehicle type in Fighter Squadron if you deploy in exactly at the same moment as another player does it on the opposite team.
• Cargo: Decreased time limit from 15 to 10 minutes if played in the Outer Rim playlist
• Power-ups: Fixed various issues with Power-ups being unreachable or blocked by the Environment.
• Spawns: Fixed player spawns across all modes on Ice Caves & Swamp Crash Site.

Stats & Progression

• Stats: Resolved an issue in which players didn’t get any stats after completing rounds of Hero Hunt in certain instances.
• Stats: Players should be able to observe all unlocked diorama figurines correctly when looking at another players profile in the social hub. Before only multiplayer based figurines would appear unlocked.
• Hutt Contracts: Some descriptions and criteria have been made clearer.
• Hutt Contracts: Updated the Criteria for DT-12, Relby-V10, and Scatter Gun to not require 15 kills in a round but rather 15 kills in total.
• Hutt Contracts: Unlocks obtained during a game round will now become instantly available and will not require the player to leave the server to access them.
• Diorama: Greedo Diorama criteria has been updated and now requires 7 unlocks. All players who have completed the 7 criteria pre-patch will have the diorama figurine automatically unlock next time they play and finish a round of multiplayer.
• Accomplishments: Changed the required amount of kills for the various weapon related accomplishment streaks from 10 kills to 7 kills.
• Scoring: Changed the term “Killstreak bonus” to “Combat Streak”
• Scoring: Increased various objective based scoring events and decreased various combat oriented scoring events.

DICE is celebrating this week’s Star Wars Day (May 4) by giving everyone who logs into Star Wars Battlefront on the day a free bundle of 4,444 credits. A new Hutt Contract will also be available for players to earn the Bacta Bomb Star Card, which provides a health boost to you and your teammates.

Battlefront is expected to have three add-on expansions in the coming months. Bespin is planned for summer 2016, followed by Death Star in fall 2016, and an untitled expansion coming in early 2017. All are included with the $50 Battlefront DLC pass or can be purchased individually for $15 each.

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The complete list of PlayStation 4 Trophies for Bethesda and Id Software’s upcoming Doom reboot have been revealed, courtesy of Exophase.

There are some fairly standard Trophies, acquired by reaching single-player milestones or defeating key bosses. But there’s also a few callbacks to the series’ past, which is a nice touch. Take a look at the list below to see what you’ll need to do to unlock all the Trophies.

Id Software executive producer Marty Stratton and creative director Hugo Martin recently joined GameSpot for a Doom single-player livestream, in which they talked to us about the game and its intense difficulty mode, Ultra-Nightmare. Check it out to see more of Doom, which launches on PS4, Xbox One, and PC on May 13.

• Thy Flesh Consumed – Earn all Trophies
• Shoot it Until it Dies – Defeat the Cyberdemon
• Outnumbered? No Problem – Defeat the Hell Guards
• Who’s Next? – Defeat the Spider Mastermind
• E1M1 – Complete the first mission of the campaign
• Into the Unknown – Warp to Hell
• Knee-Deep in the Dead – Complete the campaign on ‘I’m Too Young to Die’, ‘Hurt Me Plenty’, ‘Ultra Violence’, or ‘Nightmare’.
• A Toe into Madness – Complete The UAC on Ultra-Nightmare
• Up Close and Personal – Kill 50 enemies using the Chainsaw
• Specialist – Earn the Mastery for a weapon mod
• IDKFA – Earn the Masteries for all weapon mods
• Hot Swapper – Acquire all weapon mods
• Historian – Find all Data Logs
• Timing is Everything – Use explosive barrels to kill 100 enemies
• Every Nook and Cranny – Find all Collectibles
• Argent Overload – Fully upgrade Health, Armor, or Ammo capacity
• Argent Fiend – Fully upgrade Health, Armor, and Ammo capacity on a single campaign run.
• A Gift from Beyond – Earn a Rune
• The Circle is Complete – Earn all Runes
• Tinkering – Fully upgrade a Praetor Suit category.
• Overclocked- Fully upgrade all Praetor Suit categories on a single campaign run.
• Thorough Shopper- Complete all Challenges for a single mission.
• Butcher- Perform 200 Glory Kills
• Rip and Tear- Glory Kill all common enemy types in the campaign.
• Juicin’ it up- Kill 150 enemies while using Power Ups
• Momentum Shift- Upgrade a Rune
• IDDQD- Upgrade all Runes
• What Else Ya Got?- Complete all Mission Challenges
• IPXSETUP.EXE- Win a Multiplayer match
• Combat tested, Doomguy approved – Reach Level 5 in Multiplayer
• An Old Friend- Acquire the BFG
• Shareware- Create and publish a SnapMap
• No Rest for the Living- Play 5 published SnapMaps
• Entryway- Complete the SnapMap Basic and Advanced Tutorials

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Nintendo has shared some new details on its upcoming NX system. The English translation of Nintendo CEO Tatsumi Kimishima’s Q&A session with investors was published today. As part of this, someone asked if the NX would be sold at a loss like the Wii U was in 2012. Kimishima said this is not expected to be the case–and explained why.

“We are not thinking of launching the hardware at a loss,” he said. “When Wii U was launched, the yen was very strong. I am assuming that situation will not repeat itself. Selling at a loss at launch would not support the business, so we are keeping that mind in developing NX.”

It is not uncommon for gaming hardware to be sold at a loss, with the money made back by more margin-rich things like games and accessories.

The NX, or whatever it ends up being called, is slated to launch in March 2017. It is not expected to have much of presence at E3 2016 in June.

Some had expected Nintendo to launch the system in time for the busy year-end holiday shopping season. Kimishima said one of the reasons why Nintendo chose March 2017 as the NX’s release window was to ensure that “the software lineup will be ready in time for the hardware launch.”

Responding to another analyst’s question about the NX release window, Kimishima again stressed that having a solid launch lineup is important.

“We believe that when launching hardware, the amount of quality software for consumers to play that is available at launch is important, and that we ought to determine our launch dates based on this,” he said.

“The fact that consumers spend more money in the holiday season may be a big factor in why launching then is a good way to start. However, our hardware and software business structure does not end in that year. We want consumers to continue to play this game system for many years, so we believe that in the beginning it is most important to make sure that everything is in order at launch. In that sense, our approach is that we should wait until we can provide a fully realized experience rather than rushing to launch in the holiday season, and this approach has not changed.”

You can read Nintendo’s summary of Kimishima’s Q&A session here on Nintendo’s corporate website.

The NX has been described by Nintendo as a “brand-new concept.” According to a Wall Street Journal report, it will be a console/mobile hybrid that uses “industry-leading” technology.

In other Nintendo news, the company has confirmed that the new Legend of Zelda, previously only announced for Wii U, is also coming to the NX. You can catch up on all the big Nintendo news in this new roundup.

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The rumors were right. As part of its Call of Duty Infinite Warfare announcement today, Activision also confirmed that it’s remastering 2007’s fan-favorite Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.

The original game was made by Infinity Ward (which is developing Infinite Warfare), but development on the remaster for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC is behind done by Activision subsidiary Raven Software. Infinity Ward is of course involved with the production, as it is executively producing the game.

It’s being called Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered. According to a press release, it will feature “vibrant current generation visuals, with fully improved texture resolution and detail, high-dynamic range lighting, lit and shadowing VFX particles, revamped animation and audio, stunning sound, and much more.”

You can see the game in action at the end of Infinite Warfare’s announcement trailer above.

The full campaign from the 2007 game is included, and there is also multiplayer. However, the online multiplayer mode is limited to ten “fan-favorite” maps. The full list was not announced, but the confirmed maps so far are “Crash,” “Backlot,” and “Crossfire.”

“The original Modern Warfare raised the bar on video games and forever will be remembered as one of the best,” Raven studio head Brian Raffel said in a statement. “It’s an honor to be developing the remaster and we are committed to faithfully remastering this classic for Call of Duty fans.”

Modern Warfare’s remastered version is included with the following Infinite Warfare editions:

• Legacy Edition and Digital Legacy Edition ($80) -Includes both Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered
• Digital Deluxe Edition ($100) – Includes Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered and Season Pass
• Legacy Pro Edition ($120) – Includes Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, Season Pass, collectible Steelbook, official game soundtrack, and additional digital items

Activision did not say if it plans to sell Modern Warfare Remastered by itself. We’ll report back with new details as they become available.

Infinite Warfare launches on November 4. For more, check out GameSpot’s roundup of everything we know so far.

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