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Destiny players hoping to complete their Moments of Triumph and earn a rare reward don’t have much time left to do so. As announced previously, you’ll need to complete the 10 challenges below before September 9 to receive a special emblem when The Taken King launches on September 15.

To unlock some of the Moments of Triumph, you’ll need Destiny’s expansions. You can see all ten of the challenges below the video, with descriptions courtesy of Bungie. After September 9, the special emblem will be unattainable, though it’s possible Bungie will renew this campaign for Year Two.

Destiny Year One Moments of Triumph:

• Crucible Gladiator — Win 100 Crucible matches
• Chest Hunter — Find all golden chests
• Public Servant — Complete 50 Public Events
• Apprentice of Light — Achieve maximum character level
• Light of the Guardian — Defeat the dark heart of the Black Garden
• Light in the Dark — Prevent the summoning of Crota’s Soul
• Light of the Reef — Capture Skolas in the Vex Citadel
• Bane of Skolas — Defeat Prison of Elders on Hard Difficulty
• Bane of Atheon — Defeat Atheon on Hard Difficulty
• Bane of Crota — Defeat Crota on Hard Difficulty

You can track your progress against these goals through this special Bungie.net page. How close are you to unlocking the emblem? Let us know in the comments below.

In other recent Destiny news, Bungie has released a new trailer for The Taken King’s new raid, King’s Fall, and announced that it will launch on September 18.

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A special Fallout themed Monopoly set has been officially announced by Bethesda, and its release is expected to coincide with the Fallout 4 launch date in November.

Details of the board game first emerged when a Shacknews journalist published on Instagram a picture of its contents box. In the comments section of that Instagram photo, one user asked the board game’s designer–USAopoly–about when and where it would be released. “This November only at GameStop,” was the manufacturer’s response. It is not clear if the board game will ship outside of North America.

Following this, the official Fallout Twitter account announced the product, writing: “When Fallout 4 monopolizes family time, you can always bust this out.”

This does not mark the first time a video game has cross-pollinated with Monopoly. Other special editions of the classic real-estate management board game includes themes based on Assassin’s Creed, Legend of Zelda, and World of Warcraft.

Fallout 4, the long-awaited next entry in Bethesda’s acclaimed series, is set to ship across Europe and North America from November 11.

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Publisher Warner Bros on Wednesday deployed a patch for the PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight, but has since removed it due to the update apparently going live prematurely.

The 626MB patch was delivered to a specific group of Steam customers who had all agreed to play beta builds of the game. Early reports from these users were overwhelmingly positive. However, Warner Bros quickly pulled the patch just hours after it first went live, apparently due to the new build being released ahead of schedule.

Warner Bros has previously stated that the Arkham Knight PC patch should go live at some point in September.

Some beta participants who played the patched version wrote on a Steam discussion board that Arkham Knight’s PC frame rate was stable and smooth, and early indications suggest that many of the game’s notorious launch problems have been resolved.

One beta user, going by the name ‘Saerydoth’, wrote: “Holy…wow. Just opted into the beta patch. EVERYTHING maxed, all gameworks settings on. 4GB used out of 6 (980ti). Constant 60fps. I think I might’ve dropped to 55 once when driving but it’s butter smooth.”

Another user, going by the name ‘Snot’, published a screengrab of the extensive new graphics options in the game, which also includes a gauge that shows how much V-ram is being used. That image can be found below.

Batman: Arkham Knight shipped on June 23 across Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. However, upon release, a mass of reports from players had indicated that the PC edition was in an incomplete state.

That led to a punishing two weeks for the publisher, as fans continued to discover a whole litany of technical problems with the PC build. After apologising and announcing its intention to build a patch to fix the numerous problems, Warner Bros decided to pull the title from Steam. The game has been unavailable on PC since.

Developer Rocksteady recently released a statement saying it was working on remedying the port’s problems, while more significant ongoing work was being done. Posting on Twitter, studio co-founder and director of the Batman: Arkham series, Sefton Hill, said the studio has its “best engineers” helping to fix the issues.

Meanwhile, Warner Bros was accused of having known of Arkham Knight’s PC Problems “for months” prior to release, however these claims–purportedly from internal QA employees–are not proven.

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NetherRealm Studios has hinted at the next new characters coming to fighting game Mortal Kombat X as part of a downloadable content pack. The image above was shared by the studio’s creative director Ed Boon on Twitter with the accompanying text, “Tomorrow?”

It’s hard to make out which character shadows are being shown, so I’ve bumped up the brightness to help make the silhouettes clearer. NetherRealm Studios recently released four new characters as part of its Kombat Pack. The pack included Jason Voorhees, Tanya, Predator, and Tremor, who was the last confirmed DLC character. Each character can also be purchased individually.

Since then Boon has teased that more new characters are on their way, confirming that news would be shared this week. A livestream in July labeled Tremor as being the final character in “Kombat Pack 1.” Previously, this was only ever called the Kombat Pack, suggesting there will be at least one more.

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Hideo Kojima and Konami have released a short documentary in which the acclaimed series designer discusses the hardship and challenges he faced creating Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.

The ten-minute “MGS 5 Debriefing” video was published on Konami’s official website late on Tuesday as the game launched worldwide, and it shows Kojima meeting with key people involved in the production of The Phantom Pain.

Later in the video, Kojima also pays a visit to the family of Sean Gillespie, a fan of the series who was suffering from cancer during the production of The Phantom Pain.

Gillespie died on February 8, but had written a letter to Kojima when the MGS V project had entered a brutal crunch period. The Metal Gear creator said the letter served as inspiration to the team to push on with development.

Problems between Kojima Productions and Konami have been extensively documented by the press. In March, GameSpot revealed that power struggles between the two parties had reached the stage where most senior staff were ready to leave the company after MGS V shipped. It is unclear if their working relationship has restored since.

Some in the press have commented that Kojima’s debriefing video is, in fact, a farewell message. It is not clear if this is accurate.

In the video, Kojima says “my energy comes from the players. My mission is to exceed their expectations. It’s all that matters to me.”

Kojima’s final words in the video: “I’ve been working on making MGS V the best it can possibly be, balancing and tweaking right up until the very end. Players will not be disappointed. I’m sorry it took so long, but I feel we’ve created something very special and I hope everyone will enjoy it. Thank you all.”

Elsewhere in the short documentary, Kojima discusses the unique responsibility and challenges involved in working on the same game series for 28 years.

It also pays a tribute to Gillespie, describing him as “a Metal Gear fan and honorary member of the team whose messages of support and love for the series gave us strength during our toughest hour.”

Further Reading:

• Metal Gear Solid 5 Review
• Metal Gear Solid 5 Guide: Nine Tips For Surviving Afghanistan

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2K Sports has announced 21 new characters for the upcoming professional wrestling game, WWE 2K16. Among the newly confirmed characters are some of WWE’s biggest names, including The Rock, Undertaker, Randy Savage, Andre The Giant, and Batista, among others.

The full list of just-announced characters is below. In all, WWE 2K16 will have a roster of 120 playable wrestlers, the biggest-ever lineup in the history of the franchise and nearly dboule the number of those in last year’s game. For a closer look at the new characters, click through the images in the gallery.

Newly Confirmed WWE 2K16 Wrestlers:

• Aiden English
• Andre The Giant
• Batistia
• Chris Jericho
• Curtis Axel
• Edge
• Erick Rowan
• Fandango
• John “Bradshaw” Layfield
• Luke Harper
• “Macho Man” Randy Savage
• Natalya
• Ravishing Rick Rude
• R-Truth
• Ryback
• Santino Marella
• Sergeant Slaughter
• Simon Gotch
• Stephanie McMahon
• The Rock
• Undertaker

The WWE 2K16 release date is set for October 27 on Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 3. thos who preorder WWE 2K16 will receive two playable versions of Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator from the popular action movies.

In other news about the game, 2K Sports recently announced its full soundtrack, which includes songs from bands and artists such as Marilyn Manson and Run DMC.

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