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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds will launch on the Xbox One on December 12… Stranger Things Skin Pack now available in Minecraft

A hundred players parachute onto the island, but the game is almost ready to parachute onto the Xbox One. That’s right, PUBG Corp has announced a release date for the Xbox One launch of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds at Paris Games Week.

Also today, Mojang is adding the potent fanbase of Stranger Things to Minecraft with a new Skin Pack.

You can read more about both stories after the break. (more…)

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Minecraft: Story Mode Season 2 Episode 4 will be released on November 7… World of Final Fantasy coming to PC on November 21

Telltale Games will turn the page on a new episode from Minecraft: Story Mode Season 2 next week, and Square Enxi will give Final Fantasy fans a chance to play World of Final Fantasy on a new platform in a few weeks.

You can read more about both news stories (and spy a pair of brand new trailers) after the break. (more…)

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Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp will be available for mobile devices in late November

After months of teasing and at least one major delay, Nintendo has finally offered up the first details on Animal Crossing Mobile. Officially known as Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, the free-to-play game will be available to download for iOS and Android devices in late November.

And we learned quite a bit more about the game during a special Nintendo Direct presentation that Nintendo delivered to fans late last night:

Manage Your Manager: When you start a new game in Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, you will be asked to create your personalized campsite manager avatar – your character in the game. You can choose to be a girl or a boy, and customize things like skin color, hair color and eye color. Whatever suits you!

Arts & Crafts: By gathering resources like fruit and wood, you can craft items for your campsite. These include furniture and decorative items, like couches and benches, as well as baskets and plants. To craft items, just speak to classic Animal Crossing villager Cyrus to put in an order. After the item is finished, you can place it around your campsite or decorate the interior of your camper.

Leaf Tickets: Leaf Tickets can be earned through regular gameplay or purchased using real-world money, and can be used in a variety of ways in the game. For example, they can be used to shorten the time needed to craft items, more easily acquire materials or acquire unique camper exterior designs.

Friendship Level: In Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, you can chat with your animal friends or fulfill their requests to raise your friendship level. If you level up your friendship or decorate your campsite with an animal’s favorite items, she or he might pay you a visit.

BHFF (Best Human Friends Forever): Not all of your friends in Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp will have fur or feathers. You can send your in-game Player ID to real-life friends who also own the game to have them visit your campsite. Random player avatars will also visit the campsite from time to time. Once someone visits, you can exchange your Bells for items saved in the Market Box.

Tick Tock: Similar to past Animal Crossing games, time passes in Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp just like in real life! As morning, day, evening and night pass, the scenery in the game will change and different animal friends might show up.

Area Map: Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is full of places to visit and explore. In addition to your campsite, you can travel in your camper to a beach, a forest, a river and an island.

Market Place: The go-to spot for shopaholics, Market Place is full of stores run by familiar Animal Crossing characters like Timmy, Tommy and the Able Sisters. The various shops in Market Place offer things like furniture and clothing items. The selection at each shop rotates, so don’t be a stranger!

OK Motors: Remember that camper that was mentioned a few bullets back? It’s not used to just travel between locations in the game. By visiting the OK Motors store, you can acquire things to customize your camper, including furniture to fill the interior and paint to decorate the exterior. It’s like those tiny homes that are all the rage … but with wheels!

Expanding Camp Life: In addition to all the fun things you can do in the game, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp will eventually offer seasonal events to keep the experience fresh and surprising, as well as limited-time furniture and outfit options through game updates. These events and updates will begin rolling out after launch.

You can learn more about Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp by visiting the game’s official website.

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New 3DS XL: Super NES Edition coming soon… Animal Crossing Mobile revealed scheduled for tomorrow

Nintendo will release the New 3DS XL in another style this November (this time patterned after the Super NES). And the publisher will also talk about Animal Crossing Mobile during a Nintendo Direct presentation scheduled for tomorrow.

You can learn more about both stories after the break. (more…)

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The Video Game Canon: Mega Man 2

Dig deeper into the Video Game Canon with a look at the the blockbuster success born out of the simple ambitions of Mega Man 2. Here’s a teaser…

The first Mega Man game is a bit of an odd duck, which has become even more pronounced as the years go by. The graphics are simplistic, the sound is tinny, there’s only six Robot Masters instead of the traditional eight, and there’s even a score counter (a feature that was jettisoned from the dozens of sequels that followed). There’s just a smoothness to subsequent games in the franchise that Capcom had yet to master with the first entry.

But like most Mega Man fans, I only learned all this after the fact. At the time, whatever memories I have of the first game were formed by guide writers who described it as an unfairly difficult game, old episodes of Captain N, and the fact that none of the local rental outlets owned a copy (unsurprisingly, Lee Trevino’s Fighting Golf was always available).

I finally got the chance to see what all the fuss was about with Mega Man 2, which was also the first game in the Mega Man franchise to be spearheaded by Capcom’s Keiji Inafune. With an expanded role in the sequel’s development, Inafune became known as the “Father” of Mega Man to plenty of fans, and codified many of the traditions and patterns the series is known for.

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Never Stop Sneakin’ coming to the Switch this Fall… Guardians of the Galaxy Episode 4 will launch next week

Dean Dodrill has left behind the animated animals of Dust: An Elysian Tail for his next project, and Telltale Games has given the green light to the next installment of their Guardians of the Galaxy series.

You can learn more about both projects after the break. (more…)

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Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition coming in January 2018… Capcom announces plans for NYCC 2017

Capcom has been a busy little bee lately, announcing a new version of Street Fighter V and detailing their big plans for this weekend’s new York Comic Con.

You can read about both after the break. (more…)

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Alphabear II will be released in 2018… Harmonix’s Super Beat Sports coming to Switch on October 12

We’ve got news on two super-adorable upcoming releases as Spry Fox has announced they’re hard at work on Alphabear II and Harmonix confirmed a release date for Super Beat Sports on the Switch.

You can read all about both games after the break. (more…)

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