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Publisher Nordic Games has added another franchise to its stable. The company, which previously acquired the rights to Darksiders, Red Faction, and de Blob from THQ, announced Tuesday that it had entered into an agreement with 2015 Games to buy the Vietnam-themed Men of Valor franchise.

Nordic Games didn’t announce any plans for a sequel to the 2004 Xbox and PC game.

But the company pointed out that the title has a rich history, having been worked on by Vince Zampella and Jason West, who would later go on establish Infinity Ward and Respawn Entertainment.

“With said IP, our shooter portfolio gets enriched with a real classic,” Nordic Games executive Reinhard Pollice said in a statement. “It feels great to have a piece of FPS-history under our umbrella. At 2015 Games, a lot of talented people, including the founders of Infinity Ward and Respawn Entertainment amongst others, shaped the first person shooter genre with their games.”

Before Men of Valor, 2015 Games worked on Medal of Honor: Allied Assault

Men of Valor (see GameSpot’s review) puts players into the boots of new recruit Dean Shepard as he and his Marine squadmates battle through Southeast Asia in the 1960s during the Vietnam War.

Would you like to see another Men of Valor game? Let us know in the comments below!

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Square Enix’s “secret” game, which the company started teasing last week, has been officially revealed. The Final Fantasy publisher on Tuesday announced Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness, the fifth game in the main series. Kotaku and Siliconera have the first details for the game.

Star Ocean 5 is in development for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 at Star Ocean creator Tri-Ace. No release date has been announced, but a report in Weekly Famistu claims the game is about 30 percent finished.

In terms of story, Star Ocean 5 is set between Star Ocean 2 and Star Ocean 3, featuring Fidel Camus as its hero

For gameplay, “seamless real-time” battles are promised. Siliconera writes: “In addition to having plenty of event scenes like in past Star Ocean titles, there will be seamless events where enemies will attack you in the middle of some events. If party members get captured by enemies in these events, it can change the story and ending of the game.”

The game’s prologue, courtesy of Kotaku, reads:

Do the depths of space forbid peace for mankind

Centuries after leaving Earth, after a multitude of trials, with the creation and spread of the ‘Galactic Federation,’ humanity was on the verge of unified order and peace.

But the embers of conflict have begun to burn again.

Over 6,000 light years from Earth, on the unsettled planet, ‘Feycreed.’

Just as so many times before, the waves of history begin from a remote planet.

Star Ocean 5 is the first entry in the series since 2009’s Star Ocean: The Last Hope.

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Capcom’s action-RPG Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate has now shipped more than 1 million copies since its release in North America and Europe in February. That figure, announced Tuesday by Capcom, counts copies shipped at retail as well as Nintendo eShop sales for both regions.

The Nintendo 3DS game was released in Japan last year as Monster Hunter 4G.

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate’s release in North America and Europe earlier this year coincided with the arrival of the New Nintendo 3DS. This helped the game to become the first entry in the franchise to ship 1 million units in the west, Capcom said.

Capcom also provided a new franchise sales tally for Monster Hunter. Since the series debuted more than a decade ago in 2004, it has sold more than 32 million units around the world as of February 2015.

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, a sequel to March 2013’s Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, is described as the “biggest and most accessible” game in the series to date. Capcom also points out that the game’s online play “is in strong demand,” especially in North America and Europe.

Another reason Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate is selling well, Capcom said, is because the publisher is supporting the RPG with free DLC on a regular basis. The most recent free add-on brought new character skins based on Mario and Sonic to the game.

For more on Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, check out GameSpot’s review.

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Details of the long-awaited revival of the Guitar Hero series have been published early ahead of an official announcement expected to be made on Tuesday.

The new project, called Guitar Hero Live, appears to re-introduce the seminal music rhythm series in the first-person perspective, with players stepping into the skin of a rock star.

Details were published early by French newspaper Le Monde and syndicated by Yahoo France, in an article that also includes quotes from the game’s developers at UK studio FreeStyleGames.

The original Lemonde article, which has now been pulled, also described a redesigned guitar peripheral, featuring two rows of three keys.

Further details of the project are scarce, for now, though various reports across the web have suggested that an official announcement is expected to be made later on Tuesday.

In February, inside sources revealed that Activision and FreeStyleGames was working on a “more realistic” Guitar Hero title. The project will be the first new release in the series since 2010’s Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock.

Meanwhile, the stage is also set for the rival series Rock Band to make its return to the market this year. Rock Band 4 is expected to ship on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 by the end of 2015.

Sales of both Guitar Hero and Rock Band games peaked in 2008 and 2009, and subsequently plummeted due, in part, by market saturation.

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Lorne Lanning, head of Oddworld Inhabitants, has confirmed in a Twitch stream that Oddworld: Abe’s Exoddus will be getting a remake, just as Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee did last year with Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty.

According to Lanning, this Abe’s Exoddus remake is still very early in development. Its existence was something decided by fans, who voted on what game they would like to see next after New ‘n’ Tasty launched. And just as New ‘n’ Tasty’s name was decided by fan vote, so too will the name of the Abe’s Exoddus remake.

Lanning added that marking for this remake will be stronger than that of New ‘n’ Tasty, and its success will directly determine the quality of future Oddworld games, which aim to have the scale and quality of a triple-A game. Finally, Lanning revealed that New ‘n’ Tasty received 2.4 million downloads as a free PlayStation Plus game.

Thanks, VG247.

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Veteran Street Fighter designer Yoshinori Ono did not hold back when boasting about the upcoming PlayStation 4 and PC fighting game Street Fighter V recently. Speaking with Edge magazine, as reported by GamesRadar, Ono said Street Fighter V is a game that “encompasses all that Street Fighter has become” and one that will deliver “something that nobody is expecting.”

“We’ve been working on Street Fighter IV for the past seven years now. There’s been a lot of rebalancing and so on, but the game is still going strong, even today,” Ono said. “All this means that, with Street Fighter V, we have a fantastic opportunity to create something with a larger scope, a game that encompasses all that Street Fighter has become in the last few years, but which also expands on that to become something it has never been before as well.”

“So now we want to create something that nobody is expecting.”

Ono also stressed that Street Fighter V will “cater to fans” of the famous fighting series. But at the same time, Ono said he hopes the game will bring new players into the fold and build off the success of the last game in the series. “Street Fighter IV was about reviving a passion. Street Fighter V is about growing that passion,” he said.

The full interview also touches on Ono’s transition “from student to mentor” in the Capcom development structure, the greenlight process for Street Fighter V, meeting fan expectations for the game and more. You can buy the latest issue of Edge online right here.

Street Fighter V was announced in December as a PS4 and PC exclusive. Recently, Capcom announced that it plans to run a public beta test that it claims will be the “largest and most ambitious online beta program in franchise history.” A date for when it will begin hasn’t been shared, but we do know you can guarantee yourself access by preordering the game.

In March, a spring 2016 release window for Street Fighter V was revealed on Capcom’s own website. However, the publisher has since clarified that this was “just a tentative release time and no official announcements have been made regarding the release of Street Fighter V.”

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The long-awaited PC edition of Grand Theft Auto V features a multitude of high-end graphics options, one of which is stunning 4K resolution. Now, developer Rockstar Games has boasted that this visual quality, for people whose computers are strong enough to handle it, will change the way they see Los Santos.

“4K is an eye-opener when you see if for the first time,” the studio told PC Gamer. “It really does make you look at the world differently and in greater detail as you would expect.”

“That said, you could probably say the same thing about a lot of the other high-end graphical options and ultimately it will be personal preference which particular resolution and graphical settings that each player decides to settle on.”

Rockstar also outlined the PC specs players will need to run GTA 5 in 4K at 30fps and 60fps.

“To run the game on a 4K display at 30fps, you’ll need at minimum an AMD HD 7870 or NVidia GTX 760 with 2GB of VRAM,” the studio explained. “To be able to run the game at 4K resolution at 60fps you’ll need a high-end SLI or Crossfire setup.”

Addressing GTA V’s graphics for the PC version generally, Rockstar said it of course cannot promise locked 60fps for everyone. The beauty of the PC as a platform, the studio explained, is that players have the freedom to emphasize graphics over frame rate or the other way around.

“The optimal way to run the game will depend on an individual’s preference,” Rockstar said. “Some people may want to dial the settings down to hit a really high frame rate, while others may appreciate a slower frame rate with the graphical settings dialed way up. Overall, with so many variables in various CPU/GPU configurations and depending on game settings, frame rates will vary widely.”

GTA V’s full PC specs, minimum and recommended, are available here.

PC Gamer’s interview with Rockstar goes a lot deeper and is well worth a read for fans of the GTA franchise looking for more news about the PC edition. You can read the full interview here.

After multiple delays, GTA V for PC–which also comes with powerful, PC-only video editing tools—officially arrives tomorrow, April 14. However, gamers in the United States who buy the digital version can start playing later this afternoon. For more on the PC version of GTA V, check out some images in the gallery below.

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The Pokemon franchise is growing further still with a brand new movie.

Announced Monday was Pokemon the Movie: Hoopa and the Clash of Ages, the latest animated feature film based on the uber-popular video game franchise.

The 70-minute film will follow Ash and Pikachu as they travel “to a desert city by the sea” and meet a new mythical Pokemon called Hoopa. This creature, using its “magic rings,” can summon all manner of things, including people and other Pokemon.

Here’s how The Pokemon Company sets up the story for Hoopa and the Clash of Ages:

“After a scary incident, they learn of a story about a brave hero who stopped the rampage of a terrifying Pokemon long ago. Now, the threat that has been bottled up for years is in danger of breaking loose again! Can Ash help his new friend overcome the darkness within…or will a dangerous secret erupt into a clash of legends?”

Hoopa and the Clash of Ages will debut sometime later this year on Cartoon Network, though an official premiere date was not announced. A trailer for the film is available above.

A variety of Pokemon movies are currently available on Netflix streaming, including Pokemon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened and Pokemon the Movie: Kyrum vs. The Sword of Justice, among others.

The most recent new entry in the core Pokemon video game series was Pokemon X/Y, which launched in 2013. These were followed up by 2014 remakes of GameBoy Advance titles Ruby and Sapphire for 3DS,

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