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The US PlayStation store has posted a rather larger update, listing full games, ultimate editions, a preorder, some savings and bundles.
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The organisers of GDC Europe have announced more talks for the event in August. As part of the design and business tracks, the new talks will take place from Monday 19 August through to Wednesday 21 August. These additions will be talks from Steven Masters on Assassin’s Creed III’s design, Don Daglow on the ‘treasures and traps’ of next-gen and Epic’s James Brown on empowering the player in storytelling.
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Following the recent online discussion regarding the technical side of Xbox One, Major Nelson has announced he will be taking some questions in a live Yahoo! chat. Details can be found on Majornelson.com.

The chat will use Covert It Live and will automatically go live on his site. It will start on Wednesday at 4p ET/ 1p PT/ 9p UK time.

Adding to the big announcements, information for Call of Duty’s next-gen installment in the franchise has started to emerge today. Following leaks of the name and a teaser trailer in the past weeks, Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty: Ghosts is developed on a new engine which will add features such as exponential polygons and mocapped dogs.
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Microsoft Studios corporate vice president Phil Spencer has announced that historic IP from veteran developer Rare Ltd. may make an appearance at E3 this year.
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In the wake of Microsoft’s Xbox One announcement, a group of technical specialists, hosted by Larry “Major Nelson” Hyrb, dissected the hardware and software capabilities of the upcoming console.
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With Microsoft’s Xbox One now unveiled, many are thinking they have taken on more than they can handle and are heading in a direction that could estrange the gamers. Several leading games analysts are now commenting, with varied opinions.
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Although perhaps somewhat overshadowed by the Xbox One announcement, Sony’s PS4 presentation combined with the response to the Xbox One has sent Sony’s share price up.
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John Riccitiello, former EA boss believes that PS4 and Xbox One will both be successful, saying, “I believe that console gaming is going to explode on the scene of consumer electronics with this next generation of consoles.”
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Slitherine has announced Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon, which it partially revealed back in March through a partnership with Games Workshop.

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Xbox One doesn’t even have a release date yet and already GAME and ShopTp are taking pre-orders.

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Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg has reiterated to expect more on not only Xbox One at E3, but a major focus on the games.

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Xbox One’s live TV fucntionality will only be available in the US at launch, a press release from Microsoft has confirmed.

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Battlefield 4 was announced for an October 29 release date last night for all formats, but EA has since clarified that the shooter will only hit current-gen formats from this date, and will hit PS4 and Xbox One at a later date.

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Major Nelson will be hosting a live stream at any minute discussing the architecture of Xbox One.

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EA Sports has released some videos showing off its new Ingnite Engine. Feast your eyes below. EA Sports announced a partnership today with Xbox One, but didn’t go into details on what it was – likely it has to do with exclusive content for its UFC, NBA Live, and Madden licenses. The firm announced today that FIFA 14 Ultimate Team would launch on Xbox One exclusively, so the partnerships is likely more incentives such as this; however, the games will also be released on PS4, but whether versions for Sony’s console will also contain exclusive content remains to be seen.

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Xbox One just got announced, and shortly after the show wrapped Microsoft confirmed that the first game from its new internal studio Black Tusk will be shown at E3 2013.

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Jesse Divnich, industry analyst for EEDAR has weighed in on Xbox One’s reveal by providing his thought on the new console in an industry letter.

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Crytek has announced that its CryEngine 3 technology is “already primed for Xbox One,” and the firm is “equipped to start creating software for the system now.”

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Xbox One will see the launch of Eidos Montreal’s Thief reboot, publisher Square-Enix has confirmed.

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