Marvel Heroes (2015) Loses its CEO.. -News

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Marvel Heroes has lost its CEO and is now in-search for a replacement. David Brevik has been the CEO of Gazillion for over 6 and a half years! And has now left to search for some "new opportunities" in his own words. Marvel Heroes is an MMO that has grown quite popular over the years and is being played by over 1 million+ players each month.

David Brevik was the President of the worldly famous Diablo for over 11 years before moving to Gazillion and in the years he has worked with Gazillion he says that it was the "best experience of his life". Is this the end of Marvel Heroes? Or will they find a replacement and continue making an extremely fun multiplayer experience?

 "David has played an integral role in the growth and success of Gazillion, most notably leading the development of the acclaimed Marvel Heroes 2015--and we greatly appreciate his many contributions to the game and the community." -Gazillion 

"Creating Marvel Heroes has been a work of passion for over six years, It was my first opportunity to work on a live-service product and interact with our amazing community and it has been one of the best experiences of my life. I'm very proud of all the work our talented team has done together. Though the time has come for me to move on, I'm excited about the future of Marvel Heroes and look forward to what’s next from studio director Jeff Lind and the team." -David Brevik

Marc Laidlaw Has Confirmed that he has left Valve -News

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The Man that made Half-life and Half-life 2 has finally confirmed that he has retired from Valve and has no plans on making Half-Life 3 and has no idea what Valve is going to do about the whole situation.

Half-life is the beloved series by all gamers world-wide, and the third installment of the game was awaited by many for years, but now that the retirement is confirmed the disappointment of the gaming community is evident on Reddit and Twitter.

"I am no longer a full or part time Valve employee, no longer involved in day to day decisions or operations, no longer a spokesman for the company, no longer privy to most types of confidential information, no longer working on any Valve games in any capacity." -Marc Laidlaw---"I'm old, or anyway oldish. My nickname when I first started at Valve in 1997 was "Old Man Laidlaw." The baby level designer who gave me that nickname is older now than I was then. Imagine how much older I am! [...] I had a good run but lately I have been feeling the need for a break from the collaborative chaos of game production, and a return to more self-directed writing projects."

New HomeFront Release date Leaked by Target.. -News

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A Gamer went to Target and found a pre-order for the game for 1$, which means that the developers at Homefront have leaked/released the date that this highly anticipated game will release. 

"In March of last year, Homefront: The Revolution was delayed into 2016. Deep Silver previously bought the rights to the Homefront franchise in 2014, after previous developer Crytek was reportedly going through financial troubles." -IGN

Virtual Reality is coming sooner then you think... -News

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The Oculus Rift Pre-orders are live now, for the release set in March and it will cost up to 500 pounds, which will make a nice whole in your walet! It comes in a bundle with with the oculus remote and an Xbox One controller and a sensor. Everything needed to get you started on PC with a great variety of games to play. So get ready for the next step in gaming, Virtual Reality..

Those who pre-order the Rift VR headset won’t be charged until the unit ships. Plus, those who pre-order will also reserve a spot for Touch pre-orders.

Square Enix Shuts down Its Cloud Project -News

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The Shinra Technologies Project was first revealed in early 2014 but two years later the project did not receive enough funds from third-party companies to continue the vision. The idea of the cloud, was that many developers can use the cloud to develop new games using the Square Enix engine. The Community thought that SE would take advantage of this and take control of the games that are being developed (but i guess now we will never know).

"STI, as a cloud platform operator, has been trying to raise funds necessary for further business operations from third party investors. However, STI has found no prospective investors at this point, and therefore has to discontinue its business."-Yoichi Wada (Former SE President) 

Xboxs Dragon exclusive is being pushed to next Year -News

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Platinum games the developers of Scalebound have revealed that their game is one of the biggest projects they have ever worked on and will take them longer than they though to launch, so they pushed the release date to 2017 than its original one Christmas 2016.

"In order to deliver on our ambitious vision and ensure that Scalebound lives up to expectations, we will be launching the game in 2017," Platinum Games wrote. "This will give us the time needed to bring to life all the innovative features and thrilling gameplay experiences that we have planned."

I shall be gone for 2 weeks -Personal

Hey everyone I shall be going on a holiday trip to England so i will not be able to get your news on-time since i wont be taking my computer. Thank you for all the support so far and i hope you continue to enjoy my content. Thank you for understanding and Merry Xmas and Happy New-Year.

Merry Xmas to all console players you are getting hacked -News

If you remember last year both PSN and Xbox Live were taken out by DDOS attacks from Lizard Squad. This year Phantom Squad are threatening again .The problem its incredibly hard to stop. It involves flooding a server with automated requests, overloading it so that real people can't get a look in. There are ways to minimize them  but it's notoriously hard to stop entirely. So if your on console good luck trying to get on servers this Xmas on your favorite games, but don't worry it doesn't last for a long time, maybe 24 hours, You will survive!

Bayonetta has joined the Smash Bros. Roster -News

Bayonetta who is one of the female stars at Nintendo, she debuted on the Wii and had a second game release on the Wii U, which was highly praised for their Hack-and-Slash mechanics and the easter-eggs and witch mechanics placed in their games. So now we will have to see what happens with the attacks that are placed for her in Smash and see what her character design will look like. Cloud joined last month and that sprung amazing reactions from fans, what will happen with this...

Just Cause 3 Becomes even more Explosive.. -News

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• Significantly improved loading times
• Optimizations to online stats
• General stability fixes
• Fixed an issue related to challenges, wherein vehicles sometimes disappeared when starting a challenge
• Fixed issues related to screen resizing and closing the game window before the game has fully started up [PC ONLY]

Avalanche Studios the developers of Just Cause 3 has expressed that they have been reading through reviews and user feedback and will try their best to implement/fix the issues and glitches that are currently being shared by players across all the platforms especially Pc. 

600 Blog Views!!!! -Milestone

I want to thank, everyone that took the time to look at my blog and my gaming content related news, you are making everyday of me posting that much better, because of all the support :D If there is anything special or a request you want me to do let me know :D

Kojima Productions create a deal with Sony -News

The new development studio is now called "Kojima Productions", and Kojima has now made a deal with Sony to make a collaborated game that will release on PS4 and in the near future PC. We still dont have any details on the game that the team is working on but since its Hideo Kojima we need not worry. He is known for his award-winning writting and game design as we see with the "Metal Gear Solid" series which is still licensed by Konami. So Kojima has to make something completely new.

Hideo Kojima Leaving Konami to create his own Studio -News

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Well it turns out we were right that Konami were being absolute douches to Hideo, and he decides to leave. Konami got booed at the "Game Awards" and reportedly banned Kojima to come and claim his award which increased the hate towards Konami. If Hideo Kojima can pull himself up and actually pull through with making his own Studio, we will have some of the best narrative driven games out there, he is known for Metal Gear Solid, well if he can get his rights back then we will have more future games and an amazing developer who deserves every gamer support.

Uncharted 4 has "Few" Player Choices -News

Uncharted 4 Creative Director expressed on a podcast with Kinda Funny games that "There's a few spots in the game where we felt a dialogue option would give us something interesting. So with Sam talking to Nate about his previous adventures, we were like, 'Oh, this is kind of a cool nod to the fans' [...] So where would Nate start the story, which one? Let's give the player the option and they can start the story however they want." At the end he expresses how this is nothing like a Tell-Tale game and they placed this function into this game to tie in the three predecessors to this game and flashback to them and give old-time players nostalgia for the last game in the series. 

Call of Duty BlackOps III gets an Update -News

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What the update does is unclear yet since Activision have not released a Statement saying exactly what has changed, but from what players can see, there is a new "Quick Join" option on the multiplayer menu to make it simpler to join your favorite game modes. The Black Market has also gained three new weapons to go for, "Wrench" , "Butter Knife" and "Brass Knuckles". That should keep players busy until the next DLC or update.

Battlefield 4 New DLC Releases on 15 December -News

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Legacy Operations is the name of the new DLC that will be free for all BattleLog users tomorrow, The DLC brings with it a remake of the Battlefield 2 map Dragon Valley, a new TDM map map inspired by Battlefield 3’s Noshahr Canals, as well as a huge list of fixes and changes.

Fable Legends pushed "Open-Beta" to Spring 2016 -News

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The Free-to-Play RPG that will release on XBONE and PC, has been delayed from 2015 to early 2016 to give the developers more time to get everything ready for the "Open-Beta" release and also to piece the facts that all gamers need to know surrounding this game

Uncharted 4 Has no plans for "Open Beta" -News

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Naughty Dogs Uncharted 4 is currently in Closed-Beta state and according to the developer have no intent in making it Open-Beta. Uncharted 4 is the next big installment by Naughty Dog which is last game that involves Nathan Drake, it was announced at E3 2015 and ever since then the hype has been real my friends. A lot of popular youtubers and even IGN and Gamespot had hands-on experience with the game and have all cam to the same conclusion: The movement is smooth and controllable and the multiplayer is fun and addicting. We now all have to wait until the release which is on March 18th of next year.

  

Need for Speed (2015) Legends Update -Gist

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This update brings back a Legend from the Underground series Eddie, who is widely known by Need for Speed to be a Hero to the racing community. It also adds 113 visual updates to the already available cars in the game and it also adds 6 more cars; also new mods to place on your car. EA has also added new wraps and decals to jazz up your masterpiece of a car, oh and did i mention that you can also obtain Eddies Nissan Skyline R34!!! The Rep level has been increased to level 70 and the addition of old hits from previous Need for Speed games to the Track-list.

Boosted has allowed me to use his gameplay, he is an upcoming Petrol-Head Youtuber that uploads mostly NFS 2015 builds and gameplays, i want to thank him for letting me use his content and i believe if your a petrol-head like me or him you should subscribe.