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PS4 fans will be happy to hear that the first DLC for Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 will drop on February 2, 2016 - thanks to an announcement from publisher Activision and developer Treyarch.

The new DLC is called Awakening, with the new Black Ops 3 DLC including four new multiplayer maps - Gauntlet, Splash, Rise and Skyjacked. There'll also be a new Zombie mode included, something that has been titled "Der Eisendrache". Awakening will cost $15, and is included as part of Black Ops 3's season pass, which costs $49.99. As for the four new multiplayer maps, here's the breakdown:

Razer has already entered the Android micro-console world in a big way with their Forge TV that started shipping to hungry hands in May of 2015. Their Cortex platform should help by providing an influx of popular new games and an easier way to find them.

It hasn't been the most popular option, with devices from NVIDIA and Amazon taking the crown, but now they've brought the Razer Cortex platform to the Forge TV, which should help to boost its popularity. This is much the same way that NVIDIA provides made for Tegra games through their Shield store, except the games found in Cortex won't be specifically remade for the Snapdragon found within the Forge TV.

A lot of the games that are making their debut were already available on the OUYA, which was picked up by Razer recently, but are now being made available again. The majority of titles are of the the indie variety, but there are some old school AAA gems found in there, like Sonic the Hedgehog and Bomb Squad.

A brand new game in the beloved Tales JRPG series is coming to PS4 and PC. Tales of Berseria, as it's called, will feature a tweaked battle system: think free run by default, free camera rotation, and the ability to assign multiple artes to different buttons, which can be exploited for combos.

PC players will be especially happy because it no longer features the 30 FPS lock as seen in Tales of Zestiria. As you can see from the trailer, gameplay and cinematics are much smoother for it. While Zestiria eventually saw the release of a mod that removed the lock, it's nice that no such thing will be required this time.

Berseria doesn't have a release date yet, except to say it's due to launch in Japan sometime in 2016.

In celebration of everything Star Wars, CineFix has spun 8-bit gold by recreating the original trilogy as if it were an old Nintendo game.

With Star Wars: The Force Awakens utterly smashing box office records and invading our galaxy, the Force has never been stronger with gamers and ultra-geeks. Just about everyone is scouring the web looking for supplemental Star Wars entertainment, whether it be reviews, comics, books, games or super nerdy live-action battle reenactments. The clip above does just that and more: it reminds you what your childhood could have been like if this "game" had indeed been real.

Although J.J. Abrams has taken us on a new journey across the future of the franchise, CineFix takes us back to where it all began. The sci-fi adventures of our youth are re-visited with an epic excursion into the heart of Star Wars magic. A smattering of memorable scenes have been recreated in painstakingly awesome 8-bit detail, chronicling Star Wars: A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi in progressive stages of console history. A New Hope, for example, resembles the early NES version of The Legend of Zelda, whereas Return of the Jedi takes on a Genesis-style action side-scroller feel.

After losing his wife and job to his Fallout 4 addiction, a hopelessly hooked gamer is suing Bethesda Softworks for damages.

As any seasoned Fallout or Elder Scrolls gamer knows, Bethesda RPG's are as addicting as any drug. These massive open-world games can swallow up hundreds upon hundreds of hours of time if you're not careful, but are the creators to blame for your inability to break the immersion? A 28 year-old Siberian gamer thinks so, and is suing Bethesda Softworks for a total of 500,000 rubles (or $7,000 USD) after losing his wife and job by playing Fallout 4 for three weeks straight. The gamer wants the developers to compensate him for the "emotional distress" caused by the game.

"If I knew that this game could have become so addictive, I would have become a lot more wary of it. I would not have bought it, or I would have left it until I was on holiday or until the New Year holidays," a statement from the Fallout 4 addict reads.

GTA V is getting it's annual holiday update today that has a lot of great holiday themed stuff. And snow. What good would celebrating the holidays in this fashion be without a nice helping of snow in Southern California?

Among the cool new things you'll be able to find are new holiday themed pajamas, masks, other sweet clothing and even the ability to have your very own Christmas tree in your home and your yacht. Don't forget to head on over to Ponsonby's. You'll be able to find a costume just like the one worn by Billy Bob Thornton in Bad Santa.

Rockstar also plans on having special gifts make their way to all platforms for anyone that logs in. And yes, because snow is in the forecast, so too are snowball fights! The special holiday themed Los Santos will be changing back to normal on January 5th 2016.

Recent news in the competitive StarCraft II scene has seen a famous personality announce terminal illness, professional gamers and managers thrown into jail for match-fixing, the retirement of well-loved Korean SC2 pro Heart and the departure of absolute gaming legend Flash. Adding to this, two more South Korean players have announced they will be hanging up the mouse and keyboard - MMA and Rain.

Mun Seong Won aka MMA from Team Acer has seen many victories over his gaming career, being currently ranked at 55th in the world for eSports earnings on tournaments alone. MMA has pulled in just under $400,00 since these recordings began in 2011. This 27-year-old Terran player originally wanted to become a soldier but was discharged due to a knee injury, then becoming known in the gaming world as 'Dream.t)1988' when he played for SK Telecom T1 in 2008.

The other retiree comes in the form of Park Sang Jin, AKA Rain. Explained as a previous champion of both the Ongamenet Starleague and the prestigious South Korean GSL, he is known as one of three players that have won two Korean StarCraft II 'starleagues', joining the likes of Classic and Maru. This retirement is explained by others as largely due to Rain saving his father's life, donating part of his liver in order to keep his dad alive, meaning a long rest from gaming was needed, resulting in him having to play catch-up with the other hard training professional players.

8/4/20 UPDATE:SEGA is not making a Dreamcast 2. The teaser site is not affiliated with SEGA, and is no longer live.

SEGA is in absolutely no position to create or manufacture a console. In fact, they just closed their historic arcade in Akihabara due to COVID-19 significantly impacting its pachinko operations, which is one of the company's biggest consistent earnings. SEGA isn't doing badly--they made $1.153 billion in revenues in 2019, and we'll see how well they did in Q1'20 in a few days--but they are not in any kind of position to make a new console.

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Hideo Kojima hasn't exactly had the best of years, despite the undeniable success that Metal Gear Solid V was. His name has been summarily removed from all branding of his most previous of creations and he's been let-go under suspicious circumstances from a company he's helped to propel into a house-hold name.

But those somber circumstances aren't going to deter Kojima from doing what he loves. In an interview with the New Yorker, he talked about his childhood, his rise into the video gaming community and his inspirations for the various creations of his. But most importantly, Kojima was very adamant about continuing to make video games. In response to a friend who told him not to go on a mind-cleansing trip to a deserted island, he said that "Hearing that affirmed to me that my role in this world is to keep on making big games for as long as I can." He also said, "That is the mission I've been given in life."

He talked about how his new venture with his own company can free up his creative dream, making it easier to make decisions that are good for business and good for gamers. The Kojima will be with us, always.

We reported on the RPCS3 PS3 emulator last week, which uses DirectX 12 to power its PS3 emulation powers. YouTuber 'John GodGames' is back, sharing a new video.

In the new video, we see Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice playing at full speed on the PS3 emulator - showing that some great progress has been made on the emulator. There's an error at the end of the video, but other than that it looks like some smooth sailing for the PS3 emulator. Now we need some AAA titles that we all know and love from the PS3 running from this emulator.

Someone has been kind enough to leak some gameplay footage from the closed alpha for Tom Clancy's The Division. The video, shown below, shows a dynamic open-world full of challenges and strife. But what it also might show is a graphical downgrade that could have happened.

Just keep in mind that this is an alpha still, and the actual playable portion of the game might not be fully optimized or made to look as graphically pleasing as it could. Also, this is the Xbox One version, meaning we still have a chance of seeing better graphics on the PC version.

The premise of the game itself looks good, with wide-open mission-based gameplay that seems interesting enough at first glance. But whether or not the complex missions and storytelling will hold-up to scrutiny, we don't know quite yet. This is one game that we would think would live up to the memory of Tom Clancy and his unique, and epic, method of story-telling.

EA is in getting in the spirit of celebrating the very successful launch of Star Wars: Episode 7 The Force Awakens.

This weekend, and this weekend only, you can enjoy receiving double the XP for your efforts on the battlefield against the Empire, or the Rebel Alliance. That means it might be possible to actually get to higher levels to play with the different weapons available, without the grind being too long.

Star Wars: Battlefront is a beautiful game that didn't quite meet the expectations of fans when it eventually released. The beta was but a small window into a game that only captures a small essence of what Star Wars is. It seems that gamers are more satisfied with Fallout 4 than with Battlefront, with around a 33K player peak over 24 hours. Not the best stats given the newness of it.

Ubisoft is on the offensive with Far Cry Primal, with Game Director Thomas Simon being interviewed by Red Bull about Primal. During the interview, Simon revealed that Far Cry Primal hopes to deliver a "surprising setup".

Simon added: "We know that we're going for a surprising setup with Primal, and that there's an element of risk to doing it, but it's also very refreshing. Even though it's new, though, it retains the Far Cry core in that you have a lot of freedom to explore tactical choices". With Far Cry Primal taking place in 10,000 HC, it's going to be an interesting setup indeed. Players will take control of season hunter 'Takkar', offering gamers a completely different, but similar experience to previous Far Cry games.

In Far Cry Primal, you can take violent animals - if you have the right weaponry. Taming animals isn't mandatory, but if you are skilled and equipped enough to pull it off, it adds to the Primal experience. Simon said that players can choose to complete the entire game without having to tame an animal. He added: "The game could be made easier or more difficult depending on our choices, but taming animals to fight alongside you isn't mandatory. We're going to show you how these things work, then let you explore them however you like, just like we do with every progression system in the game. You can go hardcore and never level up at all if you like, trying to go through with two bars of health and trying to stealth everything without relying on your beasts. It's up to you".

Ken Levine, the Game Designer behind iconic games like System Shock 2 and BioShock, we have a new small scale open world game, but there's not much we do know about it.

Levine spoke on the OnPoint podcast (if you want to listen to it, it's from 21:20) where he explained: "We started this experiment once we finished Bioshock Infinite. How do you make a narrative game, you know, kind of feel like the games we've made before, but make it replayable and make it extend and make it react to the players? Make it replayable by giving players different ways to approach the problems and letting them really dictate the experience. That is not a simple problem to solve".

"It can mean an open world game, and the thing we're working on is sort of a small scale open world game. The reason ours is an open world game is because if you want to give players the agency to drive the experience, that really fights against the linear nature of the games we've made before, like Bioshock and Bioshock Infinite," added Levine.

News of the Nintendo Wii U emulator running Mario Kart 8 broke last week with fans excited to see the future of Wii U emulation on the PC. But now there's a tease of a PlayStation 3 emulator, running under DirectX 12.

YouTuber 'John GodGames' has teased the DX12 version of RPVS3 - his PS3 emulator - running After Burner: Climax, Dragon Ball Z Burst Limit and Silent Hill 3. Dragon Ball Z Burst Limit has some broken visuals and noticeable artifacts, but it runs. Now all we need to see running on this is Metal Gear Solid or Uncharted, and the real fun begins - which will most likely result in big lawsuits from companies if this ever goes mainstream.

A new hacking group called Phantom Squad promises that Sony's PlayStation Network will be overrun and "brought to its knees" for a full week this Christmas.

Over the past few years, holiday seasons have been prey to hacking collectives aimed at flaunting their power and ruining the gaming season for millions of players every year. First the hackers at Lizard Squad used DDoS attacks to force both Xbox LIVE and PlayStation Network offline for weeks at a time during past holidays. Now a new team called Phantom Squad has arisen, claiming that it'll follow in the former collective's reptilian footsteps to spread digital carnage and frustration over this year's yuletide season.

Phantom Squad took responsibility for the recent Xbox LIVE outage, saying the following when the service was finally back up and running: "Lmao OF F***ING COURSE Xbox live is back online. We stopped the attacks." The official Phantom Squad Twitter account was the source of the threats, but its since been suspended by the social media overlords, so now we can only go on past coverage from publications like Eurogamer.

After a long, bitter battle, the Kojima vs. Konami struggle is finally over, and Metal Gear Solid creator has been freed from the shackles of Konami. While the gaming community has a general understanding of the Kojima-Konami controversy, we'll likely never get the whole story.

In a recent interview with The New Yorker, Hideo Kojima revealed that he's contractually obligated to not discuss the nitty-gritty details that led to the divorce. Kojima did attempt to break down the distinct cultural barrier surrounding Japanese business politics and shared some key inference on what it was like to work with Konami for nearly 30 years.

"When working in big companies, especially Japanese companies, every little thing has to be approved beforehand, and you need paperwork to do anything," Kojima said, revealing the strict, multi-faceted nature of Japanese business. "Now that I'm independent, I can do what I want with much more speed. I don't need to invest time in unnecessary presentations. I shoulder the risk."

Capcom had our attention when they announced that Street Fighter 5 could include cross-platform play between the PS4 and PC versions of their iconic fighting game, but now there's even more news to get excited over.

Street Fighter 5 will include support for both SteamOS, Valve's Linux-based operating system, and Valve's new Steam Controller. Capcom says that it's "working closely with Valve on" its project with Street Fighter 5 and the Steam Controller. The PC version of the game reaches beta this weekend, where you'll be able to try out the Steam Controller on Street Fighter 5 between December 18 and 20.

As for the game, Street Fighter 5 will be released on February 16, 2016.

Psyonix, the developer behind the huge hit that is Rocket League, has announced that it has pulled in close to $50 million in revenue, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Rocket League was made over a two-year period, costing $2 million, according to Psyonix founder and CEO Dave Hagewood. Hagewood was able to balance its books by doing contract work for games like Mass Effect 3, but struck gold with the release of Rocket League. Psyonix has kept fans and critics more than happy with a continuous stream of free and paid DLC, with new maps, cars, and modes unveiled at a decent rate. Hagewood told the WSJ: "It didn't really sink in until they told me they had to get Steven Spielberg's approval".

Rocket League only hit the PS4 recently, but Psyonix has announced plans to bring the game to the Xbox One in February 2016.

After pulling the game from the market because it was so bad, Warner Bros. and Rocksteady Studios seem to be more confident with Batman: Arkham Knight in its new post-patch state. A new patch has been released, weighing in at 538MB. Batman: Arkham Knight was so bad, we named it the worst gaming fail of 2015 in our new 'Top 5 Gaming Fails of 2015' article.

According to the changelog, we can expect the new December 17 patch to restore the heavier rain during the opening section of the game, fix the missing rain effects on a few remaining player character skins, miscellaneous gameplay fixes and stability improvements as well as minor performance improvements. The new patch for Batman: Arkham Knight will be auto downloaded through Steam, with the full changelog available below: