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GameSpot

Call Of Duty: MW4 Early Access Also Includes DMZ, Here’s How To Get In

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's campaign is playable a week early for people who preorder, and now we know the DMZ mode will be as well. Activision has announced that MW4's extraction-based DMZ mode will be playable starting Tuesday, October 20, which is three days before the game launches. Campaign early access, meanwhile, starts on October 16. How to get in To access DMZ mode before everyone else, you need to preorder any edition of MW4, including the standard or Vault versions. The perk applies to all...

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Eurogamer

As Xbox And PlayStation Sales Reach New Lows, Analyst Says The "US Hardware Market Has Not Been In A More Precarious Position Since The Early 80s"

PS5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles are more expensive than ever in most markets, thanks largely to memory components being gobbled up by AI data centres. Now, analyst Mat Piscatella worries the console market, at least in the US, hasn't looked this dire since the early 1980s, which was maybe not-so-coincidentally when the industry absolutely collapsed.

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GameSpot

Gears Of War: E-Day–How’s It Selling? Let’s Unpack Things

Microsoft's latest console exclusive, Gears of War: E-Day , launched this week, and now we've gotten the first glimpse at how the game is performing commercially. Multiple analysts have weighed in, and there are numerous factors at play beyond pure sales, due to Game Pass and other factors. So let's break things down. Rhys Elliott of Alinea Analytics released a report that said the game has sold about 230,000 copies so far, with Steam sales accounting for 168,000 and Xbox (across console and PC) making up the other...

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Rock Paper Shotgun

"It's Not In The Top Five Reference Points": Afterworld Isn't Just A Fallout Grand Strategy Game, Say Paradox, It Owes A Lot More To The Bronze Age

When Paradox announced their post-apocalyptic North American grand strategy game Afterworld , I made the obvious comparison to Fallout . For this I should be chained to the fender of a war rig and pelted with scoops of radioactive dogfood, while being slowly driven through a pack of three-headed coyotes. In a new dev diary, Afterworld's content designer and "elder lore keeper" Luke Bean has gone into some detail about the game's setting, explaining that Afterworld owes more to study of the Bronze Age collapse than...

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Xbox Wire

DMZ — 5 Features To Get Excited For In Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 4’s New Mode

Call of Duty’s upcoming DMZ mode sounds like it’s shaping up to be something special. Set on the new Hajin map and inspired by the events and locations from Modern Warfare 4’s Campaign, this open-world combat environment will challenge you to loot, complete objectives, fight both enemies and rival Operators, and extract before everything you’ve […] The post DMZ — 5 Features to Get Excited for in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4’s New Mode appeared first on XBOX Wire .

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Rock Paper Shotgun

Embrace Your Jobbing Musician Soul With A New Cyberpunk 2077 Quest Mod That Comes With The Option Of Playing All The Wrong Chords For Master Of...

Cyberpunk 2077 quest mods are still a relative rarity and the latest's aimed at folks who don't think getting to play that one gig with Samurai during the main story's enough jammin' in front of a crowd. It'll let you and brain-dwelling Keanu Reeves tour various venues throughout Night City and offers the option of adding in custom songs from your own playlist if you don't mind looking down to see that your fingers definitely aren't in the right place.

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GameSpot

Battlefield 6 Is Adding Something Fans Have Wanted Since Day 1

EA and Battlefield Studios have unveiled more details on Battlefield 6 's upcoming Season 5, and it includes a new feature that fans have wanted since day one: a proper server browser. Battlefield did indeed launch with a server browser, but--considering how it only supported Portal mode--it wasn't the one fans wanted. One of the game's producers asked why players even want a full server browser. Now, in response to the feedback, Battlefield Studios is adding a proper server browser with the Season 5 update this...

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Legendary RPG Creator Is Officially Taking His Game Back From Electronic Arts

Legendary game designer Richard Garriott is utilizing a provision in United States copyright law to reclaim the rights to his seminal role-playing game franchise, Ultima, from Electronic Arts. Having sold his studio and the intellectual property to the publisher in 1992, Garriott expects to officially regain control of the series in 2027, opening up possibilities for future re-releases or sequels.

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Rock Paper Shotgun

Wardogs Season 2 Deepens The Sandbox Shooter's Capitalist Hell By Letting You Bet Cash On Your Own Performance

"The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong," wrote the late author Damon Runyon, "but that's the way to bet." As someone neither swift nor strong, this does not bode well for my chances in Wardogs season 2, which sees the early access sandbox shooter adding – among many other things – a gambling system.

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GameSpot

Street Fighter Was On Death’s Door, And Its Players Weren’t Getting Any Younger

Street Fighter 5 launched in 2016 in rough shape, and if things hadn't changed, the classic fighting game franchise might have been dead and buried by 2026. That's according to Street Fighter 6 producer Shuhei Matsumoto and game director Takayuki Nakayama, who recently spoke about how Capcom's signature fighting game franchise was knocking on death's door at one point, before a turnaround strategy reenergized it for a new generation of digital fisticuffs. Following Capcom veteran Yoshinoro Ono's exit from the...

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Rock Paper Shotgun

The Galaxies Showcase Returns On October 15, With Announcements From ZA/UM, Embark Studios, And Frontier Developments

I'm sure you already had it marked in your calendars, but it is that time of year again when the Galaxies Showcase takes one more spin around the internet. This year's stream will see new announcements Arc Raiders 's developer Embark Studios, Zero Parades: For Dead Spies' ZA/UM, and Elite Dangerous ' Frontier Developments, along with a whole host of others. The showcase itself is taking place on October 15th, and you can watch it on IGN's Youtube channel , over on Facebook , Twitch , and Musk's pits . And I do...

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Rock Paper Shotgun

“We're Not Getting Any Younger, And The World Seems To Be Ending": Amanita Reveal Machinarium 2, Sequel To 2009's Prettiest Robot Adventure

The dashing Da Vincis of Amanita Design have announced Machinarium 2 , a sequel to the 2009 puzzle adventure young master John Walker called "a sort of beauty that games are almost never graced with". I haven't played the original Machinarium , but I have played Amanita's splendid living object platformer Creaks , and in general, I would quite like to go to bed with the entirety of their art team. So here's me sternly ordering myself to finally play Machinarium while we wait for the follow-up, which doesn't have a...

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