The next Halo game will be out this October, Microsoft announced tonight in a trailer that aired during The Walking Dead.
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Mortal Kombat Producer Walks Away From Twitter Over Family Threats
Shaun Himmerick, producer on Mortal Kombat X, is the latest games industry professional to step away from Twitter after receiving threats against his family.
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Resident Evil 5 Gets Steamworks Instead of Games for Windows Live, New Content
Resident Evil 5 can now use Steamworks on PC instead of Games for Windows Live for its online features, Capcom has announced.
If you purchased the game on Steam, you’ll be automatically upgraded to the full Steamworks edition so you don’t have to use GFWL anymore. If you originally bought a retail package GFWL version, you can use the GFWL activation code on Steam to redeem the Steamworks-enabled version. The game also has a built-in tool to allow you to transfer save data and Achievements from the GFWL version to Steam.
Sadly, any DLC content you bought directly from Microsoft’s GFWL Marketplace store will not carry over to Steam due to the lack of a CD or activation key.
If you want, you can also just keep playing the GFWL you have installed.
The new Steamworks version also adds the Gold Edition content that was released on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Available for $15, the Untold Stories Bundle adds a versus mode, four new costumes, Mercenaries Reunion, and two new story-based chapters.
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Some Developers Will Get Valve's Vive VR Headset for Free
Valve and HTC will give their virtual reality headset Vive to some developers for free, Valve has announced.
Valve’s spokesperson Doug Lombardi told Ars Technica that the company hopes to start taking requests from developers soon. “More info and ‘sign up’ forms will be available to all interested developers, big or small, via a new site coming soon,” Lombardi said, adding that a new sign-up site might go live as early as next week.
So far, we’ve seen only a handful of developers make games for the Vive headset, like Owlchemy Labs, which is working on Job Simulator.
Giving the development kits away for free could help Valve and HTC encourage developers who are already making games for the Oculus Rift and Sony’s Project Morpheus develop games for Vive as well, which Valve said will be out by the end of the year. Oculus, by comparison, currently charges $350 for development kits, while the Samsung Gear VR Innovator Edition (which is powered by Oculus and a Galaxy Note 4 smartphone) is already for sale at Best Buy for $199.
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Changing PC Hardware Too Often Can Lock You Out of Origin Games, EA Confirms
If you’re benchmarking different PC hardware components in a short period of time you can accidentally lock yourself out of games that use Electronic Arts’ digital distribution platform Origin, the publisher has confirmed.
The news comes out of Guru 3D, where writer Hilbert Hagedoorn discovered he had locked himself out of Battlefield Hardline while running a graphics performance test using different graphics cards.
After using a “handful” of graphics cards, he received a notification from Origin that too many computers have accessed his account’s version of Battlefield Hardline. Hagedoorn thought that this was a new kind of digital rights management software associated with Battlefield Hardline, but Electronic Arts has since released a statement that this is a part of Origin in general.
“Origin authentication allows players to install a game on up to five different PCs every 24 hours,” Electronic Arts said in a statement. “Players looking to benchmark more than five hardware configurations in one 24 hour period can contact our Customer Support team who can help.”
It’s not going to be an issue for most players, but at least now you know that if you’re going to be testing a lot of new PC hardware components, you’ll need to contact EA’s Customer Support team first.
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Mortal Kombat X Sound Effects Made With Goo, Toilet Plungers
Mortal Kombat X‘s gory fatalities are a gruesome sight, but have you ever thought about the work that goes into creating the sound effects for them? Turns out, that process is almost as gross as the fatalities themselves.
Yesterday, Mortal Kombat X developer NetherRealm held a live broadcast, “Kombatcast,” where it offered some new information about the fighting game as well as a look behind the scene.
During the broadcast, NetherRealm showed some of the foley work (the process of recording sound effects) that went into the game. In the video, which you can see above, NetherRealm developers use green goo, a plunger, and some other tools to create the gross, goopy sounds you’ll hear during Fatalities. NetherRealm added that it destroys a lot of vegetables, fruits, and nuts with hammers to create other sound effects.
NetherRealm also discusses how it created the game’s music and other improvements it’s introducing to Mortal Kombat X, so the video is definitely worth watching if you’re a fan of the series.
The Mortal Kombat X release date is April 14 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 editions, however, have been delayed.
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It Took 10 Minutes for Dota 2's International Tickets to Sell Out
Update: The second wave of tickets–equal in size to the first–went on sale overnight and was gone even more quickly. By 10:04 PM Pacific, all tickets to The International were sold out, meaning it took a total of just 10 minutes for all 2015 International tickets to be sold. Unfortunately, we’re already seeing some people resell their tickets on eBay, though it remains to be seen if Valve will do anything to prevent this from happening.
Original Story: If you’re the sort of person who takes six minutes to blink, you may have just missed your chance at the first wave of tickets for The International, Dota 2‘s wildly popular championship tournament.
After going on sale today at 10 AM Pacific, the first half of the tickets that will be available for the event were gone by 10:06, Valve has announced. Last year, it took an hour for all of the 10,000 tickets available to be gone.
The second–and final–wave of tickets for this year’s tournament will go on sale later today, at 10 PM Pacific. You can place an order (or at least try) on Ticketmaster’s website.
There are no assigned seats, and all tickets are available for the same price of $99. Buyers are limited to five per household, a limit that carries across waves.
This year’s International takes place August 3-8 at KeyArena in Seattle, WA, the city that’s hosted the last three tournaments. Last year, the prize pool eclipsed a whopping $10 million.
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From the talented JonasDrawsStuff (whose Rocket Raccoon is my desktop wallpaper) by way of Reddit co
From the talented JonasDrawsStuff (whose Rocket Raccoon is my desktop wallpaper) by way of Reddit comes Star Fox in the style of classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons. Someone go back in time and make this happen.
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Asus ROG G751JY-DH71 Gaming Laptop: The Kotaku Review
“You make bad decisions” said a coworker as I pulled the relatively massive Asus ROG G751JY-DH71 gaming laptop out of my backpack during a recent trip to our home office in New York City. I’m not certain I did.
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