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More gameplay coming Ninja Theory has given us a new development diary forHellblade, as well as a teaser for more gameplay on June 10, which is the week before E3. Although it’s obviously edited and not a raw account of what happened, there’s some interesting insight in there in regards to temporary failures and how the team overcame them. I haven’t been impressed with Ninja Theory’s works as of late outside ofDmCto some degree, so it’ll be interesting to see what they can do without Capcom’s assistance, who helped out heavilyin the betterDefinitive Edition....

‘It’s always there, it’s always with you’ One of the most contentious elements of the Switch is its chat system. Instead of just…chatting with it, something that’s been done with pretty much every modern device, you need to daisy-chain a microphone to your mobile device and run the official Nintendo app. It’s strange, especially given that the Switch has a headphone jack. It’s a feature, not a bug, as the company has maintained, and this week Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aimé is doubling down on it....

I’ll get you next time, Europeans! If you’re a European owner of a brand new 3DS XL (or a previous owner), make sure you register for Club Nintendo and link your 3DS by January 15th, 2013, as you’ll have the opportunity to snag a free full retail title. Once you register, you’ll get a code that can be redeemed from January 1st to the 31st, so you do have to wait a bit before you actually get the goods....

3D Zelda for 30 years Before Form Software was acutely aware of the oil vein it’d hit withDemon’s Soulsin early 2009, the studio published Silicon Studio’s (Bravely Default)3D Dot Game Heroesfor the tail end of the year. It was a 3D riff on the originalLegend of Zeldathat no one seemed to care about in Japan, though it managed to do okay when Atlus brought it west. If it was too on the nose, modern, or badly-named for you — or maybe it’s just lacked the childhood-memory-inducing music — then tryThe Legend of Zelda 30-Year Tribute....

Some PSN deals are live now, others are coming later You don’t have to leave the house to save on PlayStation 4 games, and heck, you don’t even need to wait until Black Friday. While year-round flash sales have lessened the impact of the big shopping week, there are still worthwhile games at worthwhile prices in thePlayStation Store Black Friday 2019 sale. The deals are coming in three waves, the first of which is already live....

Promoted from our Community Blogs! [Dtoid community blogger The Emolga Editorial shares a wonderful little story about how gaming changed his life for the better. Want to see your own writing appear on the front page?Go write something!–Mr Andy Dixon] Do you remember the first time you experiencedPokémon? For me, I didn’t even know what I was experiencing. I couldn’t yet read the words on the screen of my new Game Boy Color I had gotten for my sixth birthday....

A view to die for Never has a video game made me so aware of my own shoulders as when I playPlayerUnknown’s Battlegroundsin first-person. The term “game-changer” gets thrown around a lot in mostly meaningless contexts, but first-person inPUBGis an actual game-changer. Leaving you unable to manipulate the third-person camera alters the entire flow of everything. It’s much more unnerving this way. Up until now, first-person mode has been restricted solely to solo and duo playlists....

Test for eventual free-to-play launch Shortly after being announced,Quake Championswas slated to be afree-to-play gameat some point. While that time hasn’t quite arrive, Bethesda is going to be demoing the free option this weekend. This limited run version is to test out how the transition will affect servers when it launches later this year.PC GamerandMMORPG.comwill be handing out keys over the weekend that will grant permanent access to the free version, for the time being....

A new 17″ Blade Pro also revealed [Update:Razer also announced a new version of their 17″ Razer Pro series, detailed below.] Razer have unveiled an ultra-slim, gaming laptop called the Razer Blade. The specs are seriously impressive; a 14″ HD screen, a 4th generation Intel processor, and a NVIDIA GeForce 765 graphics processor. That’s some serious horsepower for a gaming laptop. Also included is 8GB of DDR3 – 1600Mhz RAM and 128GB SSD drive, which can be upgraded to either 256GB or 512GB....

The team is working on a new dark fantasy built in Unreal 5 A new team has sprung out from CD Projekt Red. Rebel Wolves is a studio founded by developers who have worked onThe Witcherseries andCyberpunk 2077, working on a new dark fantasy RPG of their own. At the helm of Rebel Wolves is Konrad Tomaskiewicz, the game director ofThe Witcher 3: Wild Huntand head of production onCyberpunk 2077. Tomaskiewicz is CEO and game director, and joining him is some otherWitcherseries talent....

Square Enix scrutinized over alleged stock offenses Yuji Naka, the co-creator of Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, has reportedly been arrested in Japan as part of an investigation into an insider trading scheme at Square Enix. According toJapanese news site FNN Prime Online, Naka is one of a handful of individuals singled out by the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors’ Office Investigation Department. Yesterday, Japanese officials detained two Square Enix employees, named as Taisuke Sazaki and Fumiaki Suzuki, for allegedly purchasing major stock shares in studio Aiming, right before the announcement of mobile titleDragon Quest: Tact....

Reselling games is a distinct element of videogame culture. After all, gruesome $60 price tags for a new product force those with a tight budget to turn their older games onto a site like Goozex or…gasp…sell it to GameStop. Unfortunately, flipping those games rarely results in a satisfactory exchange. So are there really any more options for people who want to sell or exchange a game? Last week, a new upstart calledSwitchGamesgot in contact with us....

Back in 1985, a guy by the name of Alexey Pajitnov designed a game calledTetris. In years following, it’s spawned countless clones, variations and altogether new games, perhaps most notably the upcoming smash hit Wii Ware title,Puzzle Puzzle Puzzle. Since then, many of us have spent our nights with visions of dropping blocks and exploding gems infecting our dreams, slowly driving us crazy after the years until we’ve found ourselves hopelessly addicted to this kind of thing....