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September 2016 Archive

Sept. 30, 2016
1. There's a Skyrim concert coming to London, but...
2. Sunless Sea director announces digital board game Cultist Simulator
3. XCOM 2: Yes, it's harder, but you also care more
4. Watch: Hands on with Battlezone's co-operative campaign
5. Battleborn will be free to play soon - report
6. Bungie shuts down Destiny's long-running Omnigul exploit
7. Japan is getting its own Nintendo Classic Mini
8. What do you actually do in games?
9. Face-Off: Forza Horizon 3
10. Introducing Breakaway: Amazon's esports game by the Killer Instinct devs
Sept. 29, 2016
1. Make Sail looks like a physics-based Wind Waker
2. Watch: Is Firaxis done with XCOM 2?
3. Destiny has a soft level cap of 20, but you can go beyond it
4. Bulletstorm remaster dated for 2017, published by Borderlands studio Gearbox
5. Watch: Ian plays Minecraft/Zelda mash-up Dragon Quest Builders live
6. Banner Saga 2 marches onto mobile and tablets
7. Crowdfundee Kingdom Come: Deliverance announces co-publisher Deep Silver
8. These Shenmue fans got to tour Japan with Yu Suzuki
9. UK shops are selling original PS4 bundles for ?150
10. Stardew Valley is changing the way you start your farm
11. Blizzard to nerf Hearthstone's "most controversial" card
12. And that's that for Tribes: Ascend - again
13. Clustertruck is a cruel, brilliant joke of a game
14. Michel Ancel is getting Beyond Good & Evil fans excited again
15. Here's a teaser for The Bard's Tale 4
16. Call of Duty: World at War now on Xbox One via backward compatibility
17. And that's that for fan game Pokémon Uranium
Sept. 28, 2016
1. Super Mega Baseball 2 announced for next year
2. PlayStation Plus October freebies include Resident Evil and Transformers: Devastation
3. Watch: How Virginia's cutthroat editing makes it a more cinematic game
4. Advertising Standards launches investigation into No Man's Sky
5. inXile announces Wasteland 3 - and it's got multiplayer
6. It didn't take long for CEX to hike the price of Call of Duty: World at War on Xbox 360
7. Ubisoft buys mobile game company behind Threes clone, 2048
8. Birthdays the Beginning sees Harvest Moon's creator aiming for greener pastures
9. Destiny 2 will launch for PC, characters may be left behind - reports
10. Here's our first look at the Battlefield 1 campaign
Sept. 27, 2016
1. How does XCOM 2 perform on consoles?
2. The push and pull of Destiny's microtransactions
3. GTA Online Bikers update lets you form a motorbike crew
4. Endless Space 2 launches on Steam Early Access next week
5. What does it take to run Forza Horizon 3 at 1080p60?
6. Elite Dangerous has a "heat meta" and Frontier just poured cold water over it
7. How EA works out FIFA 17 player ratings
8. Street Fighter 5's Urien is making people knock themselves out
9. How similar is Paladins to Overwatch?
10. Forza Horizon 3 review
11. N64 emulator pulled from Xbox One store
12. Castlevania turns 30
13. Nintendo hardware sales in the Americas are worse than you'd expect
14. Fans revive Battlefield 2142
Sept. 26, 2016
1. Firewatch is getting a film adaptation
2. Runner3 sees the return of Commander Video
3. Sundered is Super Metroid meets Rogue Legacy
4. Super Dungeon Bros out 1st November
5. World War Z author writing Minecraft novel
6. The Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega+ has an October release date
7. Feeling flush: Hitman's new Colorado episode refreshes old toilet mechanics
8. Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade review
9. Blizzard reveals fix for Overwatch thumbstick acceleration control
10. Minecraft console editions finally get polar bears, beets and banners
11. Battlefield 1 EA and Origin Access trials detailed
12. First Forza Horizon nears "end of life" status
13. The Witness review
14. Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare beta details revealed
Sept. 25, 2016
1. Pirates of the airwaves: How Sega won the hearts and minds of a generation
2. Shovel Knight will guest star in Yooka Laylee
3. Watch: Zombies invade Croft Manor in Lara's Nightmare DLC
4. Lego Dimensions studio on its experimental year two, Marvel and Star Wars
5. Watch Sunday's EGX 2016 sessions live
6. Games of EGX 2016
7. Digital Foundry: Hands-on with COD Infinite Warfare on PS4 Pro
Sept. 24, 2016
1. Failbetter Games announces Sunless Skies
2. Planet Coaster will, of course, let you crash your rollercoasters
3. First-person VR Pac-Man is as ridiculous as it sounds
4. Jelly Deals roundup: Monkey Island, Dragon Age: Inquisition, GTA5 and more
5. Forza Horizon 3 at 4K 60fps is simply breathtaking
6. Destiny: Rise of Iron's new raid finished in just two hours
7. Watch Saturday's EGX 2016 sessions live
8. Report: Oculus Rift creator Palmer Luckey secretly funded pro-Trump meme website
9. Game Genie declassified: That summer I played 230 Game Boy games
Sept. 23, 2016
1. NetherRealm addresses concern around Injustice 2's new Gear System
2. Earn entry into Titanfall 2 multiplayer mode at US resturant
3. Hacking cars and 3D-printing weapons in 30 minutes of Watch Dogs 2 gameplay
4. Kabam kills Star Wars Uprising
5. League of Legends eSports controversy continues as Riot announces sweeping changes to funding
6. Forget Chewbacca, it's Bossk racking up the massive killstreaks in Star Wars Battlefront
7. Destiny players are reviving an old Omnigul exploit to level-up in time for the Rise of Iron raid
8. FIFA 17 review
9. Four years later the Kingdoms of Amalur court case comes to an end
10. Street Fighter 5's stages just got a lot better
11. Watch Friday's EGX 2016 sessions live
Sept. 22, 2016
1. Watch five minutes of Dark Souls 3: Ashes of Ariandel gameplay
2. Breaking up with Batman
3. Hitman's US episode dated and detailed
4. Watch new gameplay footage of Nier: Automata
5. Resident Evil 7 PC requirements revealed
6. ReCore update to tackle long load times on Xbox One
7. Valve's unreleased Half-Life mod Threewave uncovered, fixed and released
8. Try out seven EGX indie games at home for free
9. Oculus Rift controllers Oculus Touch to cost ?190 in UK - report
10. Watch Thursday's EGX 2016 sessions live
11. Face-Off: BioShock: The Collection
12. Is DayZ still coming out on console and, you know, WTH is going on?
13. Platforming, puzzles and an anime aesthetic converge in Forgotton Anne
14. Firewatch Xbox One suffers last minute delay in Europe
15. Big changes are coming to The Division
16. FIFA 17 doesn't have Iceland because of a row over money
17. Blizzard doing away with the Battle.net name
18. Virginia review
Sept. 21, 2016
1. 10 things you must do at EGX 2016
2. October's Xbox Games with Gold includes The Escapists
3. New Dishonored 2 trailer shows us just how creative killing can get
4. Destiny sherpas are helping players up Rise of Iron's mountain
5. Watch: Aoife learns how to play Beasts of Balance
6. Dark Souls 3: Ashes of Ariandel paints a world worth revisiting
7. Star Wars Battlefront PSA: you can now equip two Trait cards
8. Death Star DLC introduces the Star Wars: Battlefront you were looking for (sort of)
9. Seraph, the balletic shooter with no aiming, leaves Early Access
10. DICE reveals Battlefield 1 launch maps and modes
11. Paladins boss speaks out over Overwatch clone claims
12. The Bunker review
Sept. 20, 2016
1. Destiny: Rise of Iron launch woes force players into queue
2. Yep, Hitler's in Sniper Elite 4
3. Forza Horizon 3, the greatest racer in an age, studies the greats
4. GTA 5 mod makers go to war over "stolen" files
5. Behold our Pokémon Go Plus competition winners
6. "We got caught in a s***storm"
7. Destiny: The Taken King guide
8. Here are your Battlefield 1 PC system requirements
9. Capcom addresses concern around controversial Street Fighter 5 DLC
Sept. 19, 2016
1. Gears of War 4's campaign feels like an Epic revival
2. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will not support PlayStation 4 Pro features
3. Pokémon Go streamer mugged live on camera
4. Poland's getting a limited edition Geralt Witcher stamp
5. Devil Daggers now lets you watch top-down replays
6. British FIFA YouTuber charged with promoting gambling
7. PES 2017 review
Sept. 18, 2016
1. Watch: 7 new details we love in Forza Horizon 3
2. Rapture leaked: The true story behind the making of BioShock
3. Face-Off: Dead Rising Remastered
4. Looking back at Spore in a post-No Man's Sky world
Sept. 17, 2016
1. FIFA 17: How the Frostbite engine improves visuals
2. Star Citizen's first-person shooting changes coming along nicely
3. Steam dumps developer for being "hostile" to customers
4. Beast your eyes on 18 minutes of The Last Guardian gameplay
5. The Death Star DLC looks snazzy in Star Wars Battlefront
6. Jelly Deals roundup: Star Wars Battlefront, Bastion, Darksiders and more
7. Watch: 5 crappy Spectrum games based on classic British game shows
8. Watch the first Metal Gear Survive gameplay
9. The space that isn't
Sept. 16, 2016
1. Suda 51's The Silver Case remake gets a release date
2. Paladins open beta launch trailer reminds us a lot of Overwatch
3. Sony's Shuhei Yoshida on No Man's Sky
4. Hearthstone adds ?4 Welcome Bundle with guaranteed legendary
5. CD Projekt Red told us about undiscovered 'secrets' in The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine
6. PlayStation announces job losses at Sony London, San Diego studios
7. Destiny has an infectious new ARG with in-game boosts
8. Birthdays the Beginning confirmed for Europe
9. Legion finds World of Warcraft in the rudest possible health
10. New video shows Jon Snow actor in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
11. Three days with Nintendo's ?35 Pokémon Go Plus accessory
12. Resident Evil 7 demo updated with new areas
13. Capcom points to Resident Evil 7 dummy finger use
14. Win: We've got five Pokémon Go Plus gadgets to give away
15. South Park: The Fractured But Whole delayed to early 2017
Sept. 15, 2016
1. Private matches revive Destiny's two-year-old competitive multiplayer
2. Jonah is Chief Librarian in Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 3
3. Watch 23 minutes of For Honor gameplay
4. 4-player co-op comes to Battlezone on PlayStation VR
5. The latest Final Fantasy 15 trailer has loads of cutscenes
6. All five Battlefield 4 expansions free until next week
7. Cor it's Corvo in a Dishonored 2 gameplay trailer at last
8. Two 80s-inspired horror games that turn things a little bit Upside Down
Sept. 14, 2016
1. Watch us play (and actually, genuinely enjoy) FIFA 17's Story Mode
2. Rise of the Tomb Raider: the first PS4 Pro vs PC graphics comparison
3. Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 review
4. Watch: Ian's revisiting Dead Rising's Willamette Mall on PS4 at 3:30pm.
5. Watch: We spend an hour exploring Sniper Elite 4's Viaduct level
6. League of Legends attracts more than 100m players every month
7. Huge hidden Star Citizen city found in game files
8. Dean Hall of DayZ fame is making a big new multiplayer game
9. Japan's getting a fancy Final Fantasy 15-themed PS4
10. FIFA 17 demo out tomorrow
11. Pokémon Go update with buddy feature, Plus support finally live in the UK
12. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice review
Sept. 13, 2016
1. It looks like Assassin's Creed 2, Brotherhood, Revelations are headed to PS4, Xbox One
2. Zachtronics' new game Shenzen I/O promises the joys and frustrations of engineering
3. Sega's brilliant Sonic Mania Collector's Edition isn't coming to Europe
4. The Hero Factory: Conversations with Chris Metzen
5. Homefront: The Revolution patch finally fixes console performance
6. Your original PS4 now supports HDR, but no games currently make use of it
7. How to upgrade PC copies of BioShock, BioShock 2 on Steam
8. US PlayStation VR demo disc has 18 games, 10 more than Europe's
9. What if Uncharted 4 on PS4 Pro ran at 60fps?
10. Valve finally takes on Steam user review score manipulation
11. The Forza Horizon 3 demo is out now on Xbox One
12. Blizzard story overlord Chris Metzen retires aged 42
13. Tech Analysis: Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
14. Recore review
15. PS4's big new update (the one with folders) goes live
16. PlayStation Vita isn't dead, in Japan anyway
17. Death Stranding is an action game with an open world
18. Platinum's GranBlue Fantasy coming to PS4 and PSVR
19. Earth Defense Force 5 announced for next year
20. Nioh comes out February 2017
21. Sony Tokyo Game Show 2016 conference live report
Sept. 12, 2016
1. Now there's a Titanfall card battler
2. Forza Horizon 3: still the only racing game for everyone
3. Animal Crossing: New Leaf update will weed your town
4. Sunless Sea writer signs up for BioWare project
5. World of Warcraft: Legion has some elaborate secrets
6. The Last Guardian delayed again
7. Blizzard thinking about selling announcer packs for StarCraft 2
8. Play the Warcraft adventure game that was never released
9. Destiny: Rise of Iron mission gameplay footage appears online
10. Xbox One S: specs, price, 500GB release date and everything we know about the slim console
11. Someone already built a SNES Mini
12. Fallout 4 and Skyrim PS4 mods look dead - and Bethesda blames Sony
13. Myst connection: The rise, fall and resurrection of Cyan
14. RunGunJumpGun is one of the best autorunners since Canabalt
Sept. 11, 2016
1. PS4 Slim release date, price, specs, new DualShock 4 and everything we know
Sept. 10, 2016
1. Jelly Deals roundup: System Shock 2, New Amiibos, Dark Souls, and more
2. Xbox One backward compatibility: every major game tested
3. Watch: Seven games we'd love to see remastered
4. Time crisis: Is this the end of the light gun?
Sept. 9, 2016
1. Final Fantasy 15 playable at EGX 2016
2. PS4 Pro Performance Analysis: Horizon Zero Dawn
3. Meet the first person to reach level 1000 in Overwatch
4. Homefront: The Revolution free to play on Steam this weekend
5. Pokémon Go Plus device launches next week
6. The Tomorrow Children: A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma
7. Thierry Henry is playable in NBA 2K17
8. Blizzard to ban some of Hearthstone's most popular cards from arena
9. Star Wars never looked so good
10. Destiny just got a big pre-Rise of Iron update
11. Sony plays down PS4 Pro's lack of 4K Blu-ray disc support
12. PlayStation 4 Pro makes UK debut at EGX 2016 this month
13. Watch: Digital Foundry discusses PlayStation 4 Pro
14. Castlevania successor Bloodstained pushed back to 2018
15. The Witness to get a PS4 Pro patch
16. Pokémon Sun and Moon introduces Prof Oak's cousin
17. Digital Foundry: Hands-on with the CUH-2000 PS4 Slim
Sept. 8, 2016
1. Digital Foundry: Three hours with PlayStation 4 Pro
2. World of Warcraft: Legion day-one sales match series records
3. Lego Harry Potter gets PlayStation 4 remaster
4. Watch Endless Space 2's impressive, cinematic combat
5. Microsoft's bullish response to Sony's PS4 Pro and slim
6. With new PS4s come new peripherals
7. Apple iPhone 7 more expensive in UK - blame Brexit
8. Sony finally confirms PlayStation 4 slim model, priced ?259
9. Sony announces PlayStation 4 Pro for November 2016, priced ?349
10. Every PlayStation 4 to be made HDR capable via a patch
11. Redout is the next-gen WipEout you've been waiting for
12. The Crew is free to download on PC mid-September
13. Interplay puts all of its games up for sale
14. PlayStation Meeting 2016 live report
Sept. 7, 2016
1. Apple accidentally announces iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus via own website
2. Here's Urien in Street Fighter 5
3. Nintendo's Animal Crossing, Fire Emblem mobile games delayed to 2017
4. Finally, Mario comes to iPhone
5. Pokémon Go announced for Apple Watch
6. Square Enix has taken over Abbey Road for a Final Fantasy concert tonight
7. Watch: Ian's getting All Ghillied Up with Modern Warfare at 3:30pm
8. Nintendo is giving away an NX
9. Life after console generations has one big upside
10. Microsoft's cheeky video explains Xbox One backwards compatibility
11. Red Dead Redemption backwards compatible on Xbox One... for a few hours
12. Assassin's Creed 1 now back compatible on Xbox One
13. Halo Wars, SoulCalibur 2 now back-compatible on Xbox One
14. Left 4 Dead 2 added to Xbox One's backwards compatible library
15. Rayman Origins now back-compatible on Xbox One
16. Looks like Call of Duty: Black Ops is back compatible on Xbox One today
17. SSX slides into your Xbox One's backwards compatibility
18. Fallout: New Vegas is now backwards compatible on Xbox One
19. Imminent thriller Virginia gets first proper trailer
20. PlayStation VR demo disc contains eight games
21. EGX 2016 to host world first hands-on with Dishonored 2
22. Peter Molyneux's new game The Trail gets stealth release in the Philippines
Sept. 6, 2016
1. Emulator Dolphin can now boot every GameCube game
2. Virtua Fighter 5 is coming to PlayStation 4
3. Sony is seemingly refunding Gran Turismo Sport pre-orders
4. Pokémon Sun and Moon has a Pokémon Snap-style photo feature
5. Batman: Return to Arkham out this October
6. Watch: 90 minutes of The Tomorrow Children gameplay
7. Battlefield 1's beta ends this Thursday
8. Ronaldo replaces Messi as the highest-rated player in FIFA 17
9. Battlefield 1's beta is broken and brilliant in equal measure
10. This is what really happens when swords hit armour
11. Some of Dead Rising's most hardcore fans are upset Frank West has a new voice
12. The battle to fix Britain's internet heats up
13. Jump the queue to play Dishonored 2 at EGX
14. Ark fans burned by Scorched Earth, the Early Access game's "completely finished" expansion
15. Cool-looking Tokyo 42 coming to PS4 and Xbox One as well as PC in 2017
16. The dark romance of cars and nukes in Fallout 4
Sept. 5, 2016
1. Mother Russia Bleeds review
2. Assetto Corsa console review
3. This Steam Greenlight game Islands is going to be amazing
4. Metroid Prime: Federation Force flops
5. Animal Crossing welcomes... Hello Kitty
6. Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour remaster announced
7. Nintendo lawyers jump on No Mario's Sky parody
8. The state of video game TV
9. Wasp wins World Scrabble Championship
10. Attack on Titan: Wings of Freedom review
Sept. 4, 2016
1. Pan-Pan and the kind of game you have to learn to read
2. Watch: Games nearly ruined by one terrible level
3. Hands-on with Modern Warfare Remastered
4. Asus ROG GX800VH review - the world's most powerful gaming laptop?
Sept. 3, 2016
1. Jelly Deals roundup: Definitive Metal Gear, WOW Legion, Cities Skylines and more
2. The Walking Dead Season 3 gets title and release date
3. Overwatch Competitive Season 2, and Eichenwalde, are live
4. Face-Off: Resident Evil 4 Remastered
5. Nvidia's Pascal-powered laptop chips are a true generational leap
6. Watch: Seven times video games were just really, really gross
7. Pokémon Go, mid-life crisis and me, by Ellie Gibson
Sept. 2, 2016
1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered will contain all 16 multiplayer maps
2. Firewatch spreading to Xbox One later this month
3. Infinite Warfare's multiplayer beta kicks off 14th October on PS4
4. Watch: 15 minutes of Infinite Warfare multiplayer gameplay
5. Shadow Warrior 2 is coming to PC in "less than two months"
6. Bungie talks Destiny: Rise of Iron's future events, wolves and raid
7. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided DLC returns Human Revolution character
8. Telltale's Batman gets second episode release date
9. Watch us tour Fallout 4: Nuka World's best Easter eggs
10. Verdun review
11. Quantum Break Steam and Timeless Collector's Edition releases delayed
12. Bethesda's touching tribute to a fan who passed away
13. Sega explains why Shenmue remakes haven't happened yet
14. Jelly Deals roundup: Overwatch, Madden 17, Captain Toad and more
15. Master of Orion review
Sept. 1, 2016
1. Overwatch will be free to play next weekend on console
2. Samorost 3 is now available on iOS
3. Lindsay Lohan's Grand Theft Auto lawsuit rules in Rockstar's favour
4. PlayStation Move is back, and now in a PSVR double pack
5. Super Mario Maker headed to 3DS
6. Early Access dino hit Ark gets "completely finished" expansion
7. Catch up with today's 3DS Nintendo Direct here
8. 3DS StreetPass now accepts more than 10 Miis at once
9. Four years on, Animal Crossing: New Leaf is getting a big update
10. New Zelda 30th anniversary amiibo will work with Breath of the Wild
11. Yoshi's Woolly World gets 3DS version
12. New Pikmin 3DS game announced
13. Watch: We chat Dishonored 2 with director Harvey Smith
14. Fallout 4's Nuka-World sticks too rigidly to the tracks
15. Battlefield 1 open beta off to shaky start as EA servers suffer outage
16. Performance Analysis: Assetto Corsa
17. Sounds like we won't get a Mass Effect trilogy remaster
18. Castle of Illusion remake will be removed from sale on Friday
19. Deus Ex Go isn't really Deus Ex, but it understands what's great about it