Gaming News Wrap [23 Nov 2015]

Monday is grim enough as it is, but imagine a Monday without the Gaming News Wrap? Unthinkable right?

Let’s start by wishing the Xbox 360 a happy 10th birthday. The console actually arrived on 22 November 2005 (but not in South Africa of course) with a pretty solid launch title list and the Red Ring of Death. Ah. The good old days.

Games

• Star Wars Battlefront
  • The best Star Wars Battlefront plays so far
  • Common gameplay issues and workarounds for Star Wars Battlefront
  • Here are a couple of Star Wars Battlefront Easter eggs you may have missed
• Fallout 4
  • The ultimate list of things you didn’t know you could do in Fallout 4
  • Modder Uncovers Secret Fallout 4 Weapon
• Bloodborne
  • How to access Bloodborne: The Old Hunters expansion
  • Huge 9GB patch paves the way for Bloodborne‘s expansion
• Matchmaking, microtransactions and Street Fighter‘s comeback: Yoshi Ono on V
• “We screwed up,” says apologetic PayDay 2 developer
• New XCOM 2 screens show off wilderness environments
• Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 Free to Play classified in Australia
• Primal Carnage: Extinction releases in Europe next Tuesday on PS4
• Telltale confirms Games of Thrones season two
• 3D Realms’ Bombshell release date delayed until [29] January
• Gravity Rush Remastered release date falls forward one week
• Afro Samurai 2 pulled from sale as developer brands game a “failure”
• Criterion has “no plans” to bring Burnout Revenge to Xbox One backwards compatibility

Sales & Discounts

• Xbox One and Xbox 360 Black Friday sale live
• Steam Autumn and Winter sale 2015 dates reportedly revealed; lacking flash and daily sales

Consoles & Hardware

• Digital Foundry: Hands-on with PS4’s PlayStation 2 emulation
• Performance Analysis: PlayStation 2 emulation on PS4

Industry

• Take-Two: This Is Why Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Don’t Come Out Every Year
• Dark Souls 3 Interview: “It Wouldn’t Be Right to Continue Creating Souls”
• Xbox 360 turns 10: tales from composing Kameo
• Blizzard Caught In Legal Fight With Game Cheating Company
• Kudo Tsunoda moves from Xbox to Windows apps role
• Britsoft: An Oral History is comprehensive and fun
• EGX 2016 dates revealed

Videos

• PlayStation Plus | Where The Players Are

• Team17 in 2016

• Overwatch beta patch notes and developer update

• What sets Overwatch apart from the rest?

• Mark Hamill on Star Citizen, Wing Commander and Star Wars