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Another Microsoft-published Xbox One game will be patched to support high-dynamic range, the company has confirmed. Xbox Studios GM Shannon Loftis dropped the news on Twitter last night. She also confirmed that the patch that adds HDR support for Xbox One S consoles will come out in 2017.

Xbox technical director Mike Ybarra backed this up with a tweet of his own, writing, “Recore with HDR? Yes, it’s coming.”

Recore won’t be the first Microsoft-published game with HDR support, as Forza Horizon 3 and Gears of War 4 already have it. You need an Xbox One S and a 4K-enabled TV to see the benefits of HDR, which include things like more vibrant and luminous colors.

Designed by Mega Man‘s Keiji Inafune, Recore launched in September at a budget price of $40. The game, which was the first in Microsoft’s Xbox Play Anywhere program, saw middle-of-the-road reviews. It is currently discounted to $20 at places like Amazon and other stores.

For more on Recore, check out GameSpot’s review and what other critics are saying.

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It’s a big day for Star Wars: Rogue One, as Lucasfilm has published a new TV spot for the sci-fi spinoff, while tickets are finally on sale. The latest video is titled ” Breath,” and contains a mixture of previously seen footage, as well as some new sequences. We also get a closer look at Darth Vader–take a look:

Advance tickets for Rogue One are now on sale through ticketing sites such as Fandango. The movie officially opens on Friday, December 16, with a midnight premiere kicking things off.

In other news about Rogue One, box office estimates peg the film at making $130 million or more for its December 16-18 opening weekend in the United States. That would be the second-biggest December US opening in history, behind only 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Rogue One was directed by Godzilla‘s Gareth Edwards and stars Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Forest Whitaker, and Mads Mikkelsen. The story focuses on a band of rebels, led by Jones’ Jyn Erso, who are attempting to steal the plans to the Death Star.

More spinoffs are planned, as a film about young Han Solo will come out in 2018, one year after Star Wars: Episode VIII lands in 2017. There are also rumors of a Boba Fett standalone spinoff film.

Star Wars Battlefront is getting Rogue One-themed DLC before the movie’s premiere next month. It’s called Rogue One: Scarif and adds Jyn Erso and Mendelsohn’s Director Orson Krennic as playable Hero characters.

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Pokemon Sun and Moon are Nintendo’s most successful game launch ever in the UK, according to Eurogamer.

Although they only came in at No.3 and 4 respectively, the pair sold double that of the previous two games in the series, Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. They achieved higher figures in one day than Nintendo’s previous record holder, Wii Fit, did in two weeks.

It should be noted that combined sales of the two would have seen them take top spot off FIFA 17 in the UK physical charts for the week ending November 26, according to Chart-Track.

Sales were likely helped by this summer’s Pokemon Go craze, with over 25 million people playing the mobile game at its peak. Official figures have not been revealed for Pokemon Sun and Moon’s UK or US launch sales, though the pair reportedly sold nearly 2 million copies in its first three days in Japan alone.

In other sales news, the PS4 had its best selling week since launch in the UK last week, while Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare was finally toppled from the No.1 spot of the software charts.

For more on the latest critter-collecting games, take a look at our Pokemon Sun and Moon review.

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The Division’s 1.5 update will launch on PlayStation 4 on November 29, Ubisoft announced on Twitter. It will introduce a new World Tier bracket that increases the level, and difficulty, of enemies as well as introducing new gear to acquire.

Other noteworthy changes include NPCs dropping crafting material, vendors selling items that scale to the player’s level, adjusted Credits and Phoenix Credit rewards from mission completions, and a variety of tweaks to weaponry. Take a look at the full patch notes below, courtesy of the game’s official website.

Game changes

• Added World Tier 5 bracket (224+ GS)
  • Enemy NPCs are level 34.
  • Maximum Gear Score raised to 256.
  • Heroic Incursions are now available in Tier 5 only.
• Named Gear items have been implemented in the game. One piece is available for each Gear Slot and each one comes with a unique Talent. Named Gear items can only be acquired in World Tier 5 or in Survival game mode.
  • [Mask] Ferro’s oxygen mask: Players can move and shoot while under burn status effect.
  • [Knee Pads] Shortbow championship pads: Grenades have shortened fuse timer.
  • [Holster] Colonel Bliss’ holster: Powerful improvements for sidearms.
  • [Gloves] Skulls MC gloves: Increased damage when no gear set bonuses are active.
  • [Chestpiece] Barrett’s bulletproof: Powerful bonuses when skills are on cooldown.
  • [Backpack] NinjaBike messenger bag: Less DZ loot and DZ XP lost when dying in the Dark Zone.
• Enemy Armor Damage now functions in PVP: damage calculation in PvP ignores a percentage of the target’s armor equal to one third of the shooter’s Enemy Armor Damage.
• Stagger now functions in PvP: high-stagger weapons (Shotguns and Marksman rifles primarily) will now cause the target’s aim to flinch.
• Tactical Advance: This talent will now provide a maximum of 30% damage increase.
• Stash size has been increased from 70 to 150 total items.

Loot, rewards & vendors

• NPCs now have chances to drop crafting materials. Chances to drop higher quality increases with World Tiers.
• Season Pass Open World Supply Drops will now scale with World Tier. Opening a supply drop in World Tier 1 will reward with Gear Score 163, 182 in World Tier 2, etc.
• Items in the Scavenger crate in the Base of Operations will now scale with World Tier.
• Vendors will now scale to player’s Gear Score, independently from the World Tier they’re in. This means that the Gear Score and currency value of goods they sell will adapt to the player’s Gear Score.
• We have adjusted the Credits and Phoenix Credits rewards for Main Missions, High Value Targets and Incursions to better scale with World Tier. This results in an overall increase starting from World Tier 4 and above.
• Modified rewards from completing weekly assignments:
  • Moved 30 Phoenix Credits from the weekly assignment reward to put them inside the weekly assignment cache (the total amount is still the same)
  • Added one extra High-End Mod inside the weekly assignment cache

Weapons

• Talents
  • Swift: Reload Speed bonus has been increased from 15% to 25%.
  • Provident: This talent has been removed from World Tier 5 and will not roll or be available in recalibration for Gear Score 256 weapons.
  • Hurried, Focused and Disciplined are no longer exclusive to PP19, G36 and SVDs.
• All Weapon types
  • Hip fire now has stronger recoil than aiming down sights. The strength of this effect varies between weapon types. From most impacted to least impacted: Marksman Rifles, LMGs, Assault Rifles, SMGs, Shotguns, Pistols.
• SMG
  • Vector 45 ACP & First Wave Vector 45 ACP: base magazine size increased to 25.
  • MP7: base damage increased by 9%.
• LMG
  • Damage to targets out of cover bonus has been slightly reduced for all LMGs of Gear Score 256.
  • M60: base damage reduced by 3%.
  • M60 & M249 now take longer to reach full accuracy when fired.
  • Hungry Hog: base damage reduced by 13%, to prevent a scaling overlap with the implementation of World Tier 5.
• Shotguns
  • Lowered the strength of aim assist for Shotguns.
  • Lowered the effect of accuracy on Shotguns.
  • Headshot base bonus reduced from 80% to 60%.
  • Showstopper: Accuracy while in cover has been reduced.
  • M870: base damage reduced by 12%.
• Added 12 new weapon types. These weapon types can only be dropped in World Tier 5:
  • MG5 Light Machinegun
  • Infantry MG5 Light Machinegun
  • Famas Assault Rifle
  • Model 700 Marksman Rifle
  • M700 Tactical Marksman Rifle
  • M700 Carbon Marksman Rifle
  • Converted USC Submachinegun
  • Police UMP-45 Submachinegun
  • Tactical UMP-45 Submachinegun
  • Snub nosed Rhino Pistol
  • Rhino Pistol
  • Rhino Special Pistol
• Added 4 new High-End named weapons (available at various gear scores depending on source):
  • Golden Rhino
  • Urban MDR Assault Rifle
  • Tommy Gun
  • Thompson M1928

Gear Sets

• Final Measure
  • 4 pieces: Grenades can now be picked up every 8 seconds instead of 15 seconds.

  Hunter’s Faith

  • 3 pieces: Headshot bonus reduced from 20% to 10%.
• FrontLine has been added
  • 2 pieces: +15% Protection from Elites
  • 3 pieces: +30% Ballistic Shield Health
  • 4 pieces: Allows using anSMG if one is equipped when Ballistic Shield is deployed. SMG Crit Chance is reduced to 0%

Skill changes

• Pulse
  • All Mods (except Recon Pack): Decreased lifetime by 20% from 25 seconds to 20 seconds.
  • Recon Pack:
    • Increased lifetime by 14.3% from 17.5 seconds to 20 seconds.
    • Decreased cooldown by 25% from 60 seconds to 45 seconds.
  • Tactical Scanner:
    • Increased cooldown by 10% from 60 seconds to 66 seconds.
• First Aid
  • Defibrillator:
    • Increased Ally Heal by 10% from 1500 to 1650.
  • Overdose:
    • Decreased Self Heal by 10% from 1500 to 1350.
    • Increased cooldown by 10% from 60 seconds to 66 seconds.
• Support Station
  • All Mods (except Immunizer): Increased Lifetime by 10% from 20 seconds to 22 seconds.
• Sticky Bomb
  • Base Skill and Proximity Fuse: Decreased cooldown by 10% from 90 seconds to 81 seconds.
  • BFB:
    • Decreased cooldown by 4.8% from 105 seconds to 100 seconds.
• Seeker Mine
  • Cluster:
    • Decreased Bleed effect duration by 25% from 8 seconds to 6 seconds (total bleed damage is unchanged).
• Ballistic Shield
  • Base Skill and all mods: NPCs will deal 10% more damage to the shield.
• Smart Cover
  • All Mods (except Trapper): Decreased Skill Power impact on Damage Resistance, Weapon Stability and Weapon Accuracy buffs by 20% from 150% to 120%.
• Tactical Link
  • Increased duration by 8.3% from 12 seconds to 13 seconds.
• Survivor Link
  • Increased duration by 8.3% from 12 seconds to 13 seconds.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where players could trap elite NPCs inside a spawn closet during Dragon’s Nest – Eliminate the Collective checkpoint.
• Fixed a bug where players would not be able to carry the Fuse box object if they were facing a certain angle.
• Fixed instances where players could obtain High-End items at too low levels.
• Fixed a bug where the interaction radius around the Crafting Table was too small.
• Fixed a bug where weapon talents that would buff the player would be purged after switching weapons.
• Fixed a bug where the Medved and Warlord High-End weapons would drop at 163 Gear Score in Incursions at any World Tier.
• Fixed a bug where swapping out the 4th piece of a gear set with one of the same type would disable the 4-piece set bonus. This affected Tactician’s Authority, Sentry’s Call and Striker gear sets.
• Fixed a bug where Wildfire, Shrapnel and Fear Tactics would not apply their effects to nearby enemy targets.
• Fixed a bug where players would not be able to use Recovery Link signature skill while aiming another skill.
• Fixed a bug where the Recovery Link would not automatically trigger if the player took fatal damage while aiming down sights.
• Fixed a bug where weapon talents would not activate if the player had fulfilled exactly the required stat value.
• Fixed a bug where equipping a weapon directly from dropped loot would replace the players current weapon instead of an empty slot.
• Fixed a bug where sometimes looted containers and props would still be highlighted as loot-able in the game world.
• Fixed a bug where recalibrating Enemy Armor Damage stat would not use the correct values at 163 Gear Score.
• Fixed a replication issue that occurred when the player was performing a two-hand vault over an obstacle in the game world.
• Fixed instances where the Fuse box objects would not replicate correctly when players would leave the mission instance.
• Fixed game framerate while inside any inventory that has a large number of items.
• Fixed a bug where the Signature Skill icon would not disappear when “auto-hide HUD” option was enabled.
• Fixed a bug where players could not scroll an item description during item compare, in certain conditions.
• Fixed a bug where the UI would not show the new item notification when a skill mod was unlocked due to a Base of Operation upgrade.
• Fixed a bug where the Automatch megamap screen inside Underground mode would display activities that were not available for matchmaking.
• Fixed a bug where the player’s health bar would overlap the Gear Score value while the Stash is open.
• Fixed a bug where some vendors in the Base of Operations were not displayed on the megamap or the minimap.
• Fixed a weird door.
• Fixed a bug where Nimble talent would not work until reequipped if a cover to cover move is interrupted.
• Fixed a bug where players could become invincible for a few seconds after using Survivor Link.
• Fixed several instances of client crash.
• Fixed a bug where Skill Haste would not correctly affect Support Station cooldown.
• Fixed a bug where Judy Walters part 2 to 5 echos couldn’t be picked up correctly.

The update is already available on Xbox One and PC and launched alongside the Survival expansion. New content for The Division has an exclusivity period to Microsoft platforms, but the Survival expansion is scheduled to launch on December 20 for PS4.

The Survival game mode tasks up to 24 players with fighting to survive against the elements and each other. It takes place in a modified version of The Division’s Manhattan, and matches can last up to two hours.

Ubisoft has said that, following the release of its latest patches, The Division’s daily active player numbers have returned to what it was at launch. It did not, however, reveal what these numbers are and what it is defining as the launch period.

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Sony’s PlayStation 4 had its best-selling week since launch in the UK last week, according to sales monitor Chart-Track.

Chart-Track and Sony have not provided any official sales figures, but GamesIndustry reports that PS4 hardware sales were up to over 140,000 units for the week ending November 26, citing sources. That’s over 50,000 higher than Xbox One‘s figures for the same week. Sales of both platforms were likely helped by a raft of retailer discounts on hardware bundles, bringing prices for a current-gen console down to under £200. Hardware sales may have been helped by the relatively recent release of the PS4 Pro, as well as the cheaper PS4 Slim and Xbox One S.

Black Friday discounts also had an effect on software. Games such as Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End and DriveClub were included in the aforementioned bundles and experienced a surge in sales.

The news is reassuring following disappointing launch sales for Watch Dogs 2, Dishonored 2, Titanfall 2, and Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, which has now dropped to No.2. in the UK charts, falling behind FIFA 17.

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