Gaming News Wrap [19 Jan 2016]

Oh look. A tasty Gaming News Wrap. Nom-nom-nom.

Games

• The Division
  • What The Division‘s world map does – and doesn’t – include
  • The Division won’t have regular microtransactions, save for vanity DLC
  • The Division drops player trading at launch, might “make an appearance in the future”
  • The Division: framerate unlockable on PC, graphics options leaked
• GTA 5’s Michael: “I know nothing” about single-player DLC
• Halo 5 Guardians: Infinity’s Armory Preview
• ARK: Survival Evolved frame-rate on Xbox One drops to 14fps in spots – report
• Rocket League Season 1 rewards coming with February update
• Insurgency gets WW2 mod Day of Infamy
• There’s a new Iron Maiden RPG

The next #DRIVECLUB update is coming in Feb & we're packing a lot into it. Expect to see more later this month! pic.twitter.com/D3BCwCAye2

— DRIVECLUB (@DRIVECLUB) January 15, 2016

Sales & Discounts

• This Week’s Deals With Gold And Spotlight Sale

Industry

• Xbox Live Gold members can play EA Access Vault games free this week
• Sony says sorry for PSN falling over with 1-day Plus extension
• Microsoft ending support for Intel Skylake and newer chips on OSs older than Windows 10

eSports

• $1,500,000 up for grabs for the world’s top CS:GO players in the ESL Pro League
• Heroes of the Storm is coming to Katowice with a $100,000 prize pool
• Heroes of the Storm 2016 Spring Global Championship [But not Africa it seems]
• CS:GO documentary in the works at Sky to show the pros and cons of eSports betting

Videos

• Far Cry Primal – Cavebnb Trailer [Only residents of Europe]

https://youtu.be/zZ_SOmsjVk0

• Dying Light gets daily challenges with the new Bounties system

• New Rock Band [4] DLC for 1/19!

• Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak Multiplayer Sneak Peek

• Darkest Dungeon – Release Trailer

• A Message from NieR: Automata devs