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Overwatch is Blizzard’s team shooter for PC and consoles. Choose a hero from a diverse roster of soldiers, scientists, adventurers, and oddities, each with their own unique set of abilities. Bend time, defy physics, and unleash an array of extraordinary powers in concert with your allies. Lead your team to victory in iconic locations across a near-future Earth. The world needs heroes!

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The premise for ‘Control’ gives Remedy a chance to do almost everything, and they’re really gonna go for it.

I am beyond excited for this. Alan Wake continues to be one of my all time favorites, and knowing Control is set in the same universe makes the game so much more enjoyable.

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Sure, fine why not. The developer behind this has some experience making narrative-based games, so it won’t be terrible. Probably.

Atari Gamer, has been running the Atari Lynx 30th Birthday Programming Competition over the past few months and we now have the final submissions! All eleven of them! That’s right, that’s eleven new games for you to play and rate. We do admit that some are very well polished and others are more on the tech demo side, but all are worth having a look at.

Admittedly, I never played the Lynx hardware when it came out, but I find it fascinating people are still developing games for the platform. 

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I keep going back and forth between how I feel about the whole situation. On one hand, this is exactly what community managers are for. As developers, it’s not our responsibility (nor do we often have the experience) to interact directly with fans. It’s not really a surprise that some developers resorted t

Apex Legends developer Respawn is looking to deter cheating by forcing those who break the rules to play together.

Too bad they don’t take this concept one step further. If painted in the right light, this could be a huge opportunity for a hacking type of competition, much in the same vein of Facebook’s CTF [https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-ctf/facebook-ctf-is-now-open-source/525464774322241/] . They could even go so far as offering rewards for players who disclose exploits, as a sort

In concept, it was a great idea to have a hidden high level code editor right there on a console as an easter egg. But in practice, this opens the console up to a slew of exploits. there’s no saying what kind of system access the editor really has, and players that do not know how to read code could potentially brick their systems. Nintendo made the right call to remove it.