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Battlefield 4 launching Oct. 29 on PC, PS3, Xbox 360, now confirmed for Xbox One

Battlefield 4 will be released Oct. 29 on Windows PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and will also be available on Xbox One, publisher Electronic Arts announced today. EA previously said that the game is also in development on PlayStation 4. The company gave no release window for the PS4 or Xbox One versions today. All players who pre-order Battlefield 4 will receive the China Rising expansion pack, which includes four multiplayer maps set in mainland China. Those who pre-order the game's Origin-exclusive Digital Deluxe Edition — which will cost $69.99, $10 more than the standalone game — will also get bonus in-game items and access to the Battlefield 4 multiplayer beta. The beta will be available this fall; EA has already promised access to anybody who pre-ordered last year's Medal...
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Call of Duty: Ghosts story trailer offers a glimpse at the life of a Ghost

Activision shared a new trailer for Call of Duty: Ghosts during Microsoft's Xbox One unveiling event today, offering viewers a first look at the game's world. The game will feature a new world, characters and story on the company's new next generation engine. "We're ghosts," the narrator says, "fighting for something that can't be killed." A shorter version of the trailer leaked this morning prior to Microsoft's event. Call of Duty: Ghosts will launch on Nov. 5 for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC and Wii U. The game will launch on Xbox One at an unspecified date and will receive all downloadable content for the title first as timed exclusives.
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Call of Duty: Ghosts will 'make the world a character,' Infinity Ward says

Infinity Ward's Call of Duty: Ghosts will make the game world a character, according to executive producer Mark Rubin. Speaking to Polygon, Rubin said that when the studio set out to make the game — long before it decided what the game was going to be or what it would be called — it asked itself what would happen if the game world was a character rather than just an environment where battles take place. "What if the world actually affects the player, and the state of the world directly affects the player from a story standpoint?" Rubin said. "A character means someone who has a material effect on your emotional state within the game, and I think a lot of what we've done — especially in Modern Warfare 3 — started to hit on that. You saw your hometown getting destroyed, so...
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NBA Live 14 coming out on next-gen consoles

NBA Live 14 will be released on next-generation consoles, said Electronic Arts chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen during a talk at the Stifel Nicolaus 2013 Internet, Media and Communications Conference today. In discussing EA's upcoming slate of releases, Jorgensen mentioned new games such as NBA Live, which he said "will come out on Gen 4," an industry term for the fourth generation of 3D gaming consoles. The PlayStation 4 will be released this holiday season; Microsoft will announce the next Xbox at an event later today. NBA Live 14 is set for release later this year. EA may debut the game at the Xbox reveal event today — the Facebook and Twitter accounts for the NBA Live franchise teased an imminent unveiling yesterday, mentioning a "countdown to tip-off" with the hashtag...
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Batman: Arkham Origins, Tearaway, PS4, FIFA, Forzavista: Speed Run

We got personal with Batman: Arkham Origins and creative director Eric Holmes to chat about what the game borrows from previous Batman Arkham games and what it does new. We learned how Media Molecule's Tearaway will make use of the PlayStation Vita's rear touchpads — and Pinterest. Sony shared a teaser video for the PlayStation 4 hardware. EA Sports announced it will show "the next generation of FIFA" at Microsoft's event tomorrow, and Microsoft trademarked something called "Forzavista." Batman: Arkham Origins — the lessons learned from City and Asylum Tearaway makes smart use of PlayStation Vita's rear touch pad, Pinterest Sony tantalizes with PS4 design tease, reveal coming at E3 Next-gen FIFA title will be shown tomorrow alongside the new Xbox Microsoft trademarks...
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Watch Dogs pre-orders at Amazon, GameStop get exclusive missions

Watch Dogs pre-order customers at Amazon and GameStop in the U.S. will receive their own exclusive single-player missions, publisher Ubisoft announced today. Amazon pre-orders come with the Signature Shot Pack. The mission will task players with infiltrating the hideout of the Black Viceroys, a gang in Watch Dogs' near-future Chicago, and steal a package including the Biometric Assault Rifle — so they can imprint the gun with their hand and claim it — and a Black Viceroys outfit for protagonist Aiden Pearce. Players who pre-order Watch Dogs at GameStop will get the Palace Pack. The mission within focuses on a police raid of a palace owned by an internet millionaire; it's up to Pearce to get in, wipe the guy's hard drives and get out before the cops show up. The Palace Pack also...
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Sony tantalizes with PS4 design tease, reveal coming at E3

Sony will lift the lid on the PlayStation 4 at its E3 2013 press briefing June 10, but the company provided tantalizing glimpses of the console's design in a short teaser video today. The clip consists of 39 seconds of a blurred-out black box, interspersed with brief flashes of close-ups of the console, the DualShock 4 controller and the new PlayStation Eye camera. Sony announced the PS4 in mid-February without showing off the actual hardware. We'll finally get to see it at E3 during the company's press briefing, which is set for 9 p.m. ET on June 10.
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Blizzard devs talk Diablo 3's PS4 potential with Sony

The newest installment of Sony's "Conversations with Creators" series has Blizzard's Diablo 3 team discussing how they're changing the hack-and-slash action RPG for its release on Sony's upcoming PlayStation 4. "At Blizzard, our heritage was actually console games," says Diablo 3 production director John Hight. "Obviously, we've been away for a while, so we had a little bit to learn." Of all of Blizzard's franchises, Diablo made the most sense by far to bring to consoles. Part of the Diablo experience is giving the player a connection with the character, says lead console designer Josh Mosqueira, but Blizzard had to be mindful that console players sit much further back from the television than PC gamers do their computer monitors. Console gamers also have different expectations for...
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Lords of the Fallen coming to next-gen consoles and PC from City Interactive

Lords of the Fallen is a hardcore fantasy action-RPG being developed by City Interactive on Windows PC, PlayStation 4 and the next Xbox, the company said today. The game's executive producer is Tomasz Gop, who previously served as senior producer on The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings at CD Projekt Red. He unofficially announced the game in an update to his LinkedIn profile last August, and told Eurogamer last month that Lords of the Fallen is a title with challenging combat akin to Dark Souls and skill trees that resemble Borderlands. "From the very beginning, Lords of the Fallen will intrigue and satisfy players’ hunger to explore each corner of a brand new world, freely customize and build their own character and take down some of the most epic enemies ever seen," said Gop in a...
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Sony teases Panopticon game in new trailer

Sony's PlayStation Japan website unveiled a new trailer for a currently unannounced game following the appearance of a mysterious countdown page that reared its head earlier in the week. The original countdown page, which included the title Panopticon, featured a clock ticking up to "1,000,000 years." Likewise, the trailer depicts a futuristic setting based in a totalitarian world where citizens appear to be identified using ID numbers. No release date or platform have been announced; however, the title Panopticon might hint at what can be expected from its narrative. It is likely a reference to the conceptual prison designed by English philosopher Jeremy Bentham, which allowed a single watchman to observe inmates without them being able to tell whether or not they are being watched.
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Gran Turismo 6 could be headed to PS4 post-holiday, creator says

Kazunori Yamauchi, the creator of Polyphony Digital's Gran Turismo racing simulation series, said that the just-announced Gran Turismo 6 may be headed to PlayStation 4, IGN reports. "We actually do have a PlayStation 4 version in mind, but for this holiday season, we thought it would be best for users to release on PS3 for now," Yamauchi told IGN today an event held to celebrate the series' 15th anniversary. The series creator said that the "best scenario" would be to focus on the PS3 version, downloadable content and updates, which could be followed by a version on PS4 that "came out naturally, as part of that process." Yamauchi announced Grand Turismo 6 earlier today at the 15th anniversary event, describing it as a "further evolution" of the franchise designed make it "very...
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Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag is a story of defiance in its latest trailer

Ubisoft has released the latest trailer for the upcoming Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag, giving a glimpse at the riches to rags story of the title's newest playable protagonist Edward Kenway. The developer has kept relatively mum about the narrative to come, focusing mostly on open world gameplay and ship combat, but its new footage hints at what can be expected from Kenway. Unlike Connor of Assassin's Creed 3, Kenway appears to be a wholly defiant sort with anarchic sensibilities, who has turned his back on his well-to-do past. Take a look at our recent interview with scriptwriter Darby McDevitt on the debauchery that will fuel the game's narrative.
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War Thunder WWII MMO coming to PS4 this holiday season

War Thunder, Gaijin Entertainment's World War II-themed massively multiplayer online game, is headed to the PlayStation 4 "in time for the holiday 2013 season," according to a press release from the company. The MMO, which is undergoing a beta now for Windows PC and Mac, recreates the arial and land battles with a mixture of aviation, armored vehicles and seaworthy fleets. According to Gaijin, the PS4 port will include "deeply integrated social capabilities," head tracking and the ability to record, stream and share footage, a feature Sony touted when it unveiled the console. "We're convinced that our cooperation with Sony will not only make the War Thunder franchise better, but it will give our fans a new level of gaming experience that will figuratively blown their mind," said...
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A video game about mass surveillance in the age of Big Brother and Little Brothers

We live in a hyperconnected, technologically turbo-charged world of mass surveillance and "digital shadows" that is so subtly controlling, that it makes the notion of Big Brother seem quaint. In George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, the only person watching you was the government. In today's society, the millions of digital eyes found in laptops, video game consoles, tablets and smartphones and a person's growing trail of data and information left online, are the realization of a more insidious invasion of privacy, a willful Little Brother. Where the overt surveillance of Big Brother was examined in a 1940s book, today's troubling Little Brother is scrutinized in an upcoming game from developer Ubisoft Montreal. Watch Dogs plays with the notion of information warfare and civil...
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Learn the history behind the rise of pirates in Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag

Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag takes place in the early 1700s, during the golden age of pirates, and a new video from publisher Ubisoft sets the scene with some historical context. France, Great Britain and Spain had spent decades carving up the New World, establishing colonies and harvesting the region's bountiful resources, but by 1713, the nations had agreed to a truce through a number of treaties. The period of relative calm was shattered by English sailors who, having become disenchanted with the meager opportunities afforded to them by their king, chose the pirate's life instead. Black Flag protagonist Edward Kenway navigates the murky waters of the era as he travels around the Caribbean and its eclectic mix of peoples and cultures. The game will feature notable real-life...
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