Gaming News Wrap [25 May 2016]

And just like that, we hit the middle of the week and the Gaming News Wrap that goes with it.

Games

• Cross-Network Rocket League Play Arrives on Xbox One and Steam PC
• The Division
  • The Division fixes a major bug in today’s big Conflict update
    Patch 1.2 also brings new Incursion, Dark Zone loot hijacking.
  • The Division 1.2 update: devs working on solution to missing characters
• Overwatch
  • Overwatch gets new Nvidia drivers
  • The hit sound effect in Overwatch is based on the sound of opening a beer bottle
  • Shot standing behind a wall: why isn’t Overwatch‘s tick rate higher?
• Sega warns of Total War: Warhammer server issues
  But there’s a fix.
• Paradox pulls “discriminatory” Stellaris mod that made all humans white
  Investigating another which separates humans by ethnicity.
• Fallout 4 modders are making a giant campaign set in Seattle
• Vampyr Screenshots Show Protagonist

Invites to the Closed Beta for #Fallout4 Mods have deployed this morning. Check your inbox to see if you're in.

— BethesdaGameStudios (@BethesdaStudios) May 23, 2016

Sales & Discounts

• Xbox Live Games With Gold For June 2016
  Goat Simulator, The Crew, XCOM and Super Meat Boy
• Xbox Live Gold Members Can Play NBA 2K16 for Free This Weekend only on Xbox One
• Ubisoft Humble Bundle is back with The Division, Assassin’s Creed Rogue, more

Consoles & Hardware

• UWP torrent app Torrex Pro getting ready to jump to the Xbox One
• Rumor: Nintendo developing new handheld code-named MH

Industry

• Sony expects 20M PS4 units to be sold by April, 2017
• On the road with Hideo Kojima
  What’s Kojima learnt from his world studio tour? “You to have to get the kitchen right…”
• Former Valve employee seeks $3.1M in transgender discrimination suit
  Litigant complained about unpaid fan translators
• Eternal Darkness successor Shadow of the Eternals alive again, Denis Dyack claims
• Monkey Island creator asks Disney to sell IP
  “I’ll pay real actual money.”

Hints & Tips

• The Division update 1.2: how to beat the Clear Sky Incursion on Hard Mode
• Fallout 4: Far Harbor guide

Videos

• The Witcher 3 Blood & Wine Launch Trailer

• Mirror’s Edge Catalyst Launch Trailer

• Alani Early Access & the 27th Battleborn!

• Unreal Tournament Underland Trailer

• TMNT: Mutants in Manhattan Launch Trailer

• 7 Days to Die release date set for consoles
  Pre-orders get The Walking Dead skins. 28 June in the US, 1 July elsewhere.

• Umbrella Corps reveals Resident Evil 2 locales

• Deadlight: Director’s Cut ‘Survival Arena Mode’ Revealed

• The Making of Total War: WARHAMMER (Part One)

• LEGO [Marvel’s] Avengers – Spider Man Character Pack Trailer

• YouTube Live at E3 2016 – Monday, June 13

• Clueless Gamer: “Overwatch” With Peter Dinklage & Lena Headey – CONAN on TBS

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