April 17, 2015: Apple Watch, Sharknados, sales, Guitar Hero, Phil Harrison, Star Wars Battlefront

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Apple Watch, Sharknados, Sony and Nintendo sales, Guitar Hero, Phil Harrison, Star Wars Battlefront

THE BIG STORIES

• Apple Watch game coming from creators of Surgeon Simulator, I Am Bread
• Apple Watch gets its first sports game with Watch this Homerun
• Apple Watch's four-letter word game
• Archie faces flying shark infestation as Sharknado invades Riverdale
• Sony wins hardware and software, with Nintendo growing big in the March NPD report
• Guitar Hero's Facebook fanbase 5 times the size of Coachella's, and other reasons why the game was made
• Microsoft confirms Phil Harrison's departure
• First details on Star Wars Battlefront, the new shooter from the Battlefield team

THE BEST OF THE REST

• Hearthstone gets easier in week three of Blackrock Mountain
• Let's John Woo it up in Not a Hero, the next game from the team behind OlliOlli
• Killing a T-rex with Shuhei Yoshida's tweets
• This GTA 5 video of Franklin on a forklift is the funniest thing ever, somehow
• The leaked Batman v Superman trailer is everything wrong with DC's films
• The punch-by-punch narrator for Daredevil's fight scenes is crushing it
• Scene by scene: The best moments of the Star Wars: The Force Awakenstrailer

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