Gaming News Wrap [1 Apr 2016]

You will find no April fool’s jokes here today, because what we do is serious business. [Says the fake zombies… – Undead Ed]

Games

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Eclipse DLC Pack 2 announced, available April 19th on PS4
• The Division
  • The Division: Incursions out April 12, includes four new sets of gear, Loot trading
  • The Division: cause of High-End backpack bug identified, fix in the works
• Overwatch‘s next animated short, “Alive”, gets premiere date [3 April], will show the origins of an assassin
• Destiny April update includes new loot packs and infusion changes
  Plus a Shia Labeouf emote.
• Fallout 4 survival mode beta now available on Steam
• Phil Spencer explains why Halo 5 probably won’t come to PC
• If Final Fantasy 15 does come to PC, it’ll be after the console versions
  Square [Enix] will take “a good, hard look at PC” after launch.
• Final Fantasy 11 shuts down its console servers
  The PS2 version lasted for nearly 14 years.

This just in from the Design Team: Legendary Gear obtained from Sterling Treasure boxes will dismantle into Chroma – not Legendary Marks.

— Bungie (@Bungie) March 31, 2016

Episode Two: Sapienza
April 26.https://t.co/Z8YIYXVZq1

— HITMAN 2 (@Hitman) March 31, 2016

Consoles & Hardware

• Saints Row 4 and Dead Space receive Xbox One backwards compatibility
• Xbox Head Talks Gaming Across Xbox One and PC
  Spencer says he’d never force somebody to play against someone with a different control method.
• Microsoft promises to support modding, overlays, G-Sync and Freesync in Universal Windows
• Kingston announce the HyperX Cloud Revolver, successor to the dominant Cloud I & II

Industry

• Warhammer: End Times – Vermintide hits 500K sales
• Nintendo fires marketer after sustained online hate campaign
• Sean Bean, Aaron Paul to star in Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy 15 CG movie
  Along with Game of Thrones’ Lena Headey.

Opinion

• PlayStation VR has the right price – and the right attitude

Videos

• The Division Incursion Details, Gear Sets, New High End Weapons & More | April 1.1 Update

• DOOM – Fight Like Hell Cinematic Trailer

https://youtu.be/iBYJZdIMGIk

• Dark Souls 3 – The Witches
  An animated Dark Souls short by Eli Roth

• Forza Motorsport 6: Apex – Development on the Unified Windows Platform

• Survival | Metal Gear Online

• 18 years later, here’s a new expansion for Baldur’s Gate

• Total War: WARHAMMER – Vampire Counts Campaign Walkthrough

• Don’t Starve: Shipwrecked Expansion Launch Trailer

• Seraph Announcement Trailer

• The Dark Souls 3 speedrun world record is already under two hours