Gaming News Wrap [9 May 2016]

Another week looms, so get ready for it with the Gaming News Wrap. And the new Battlefield.

Games

• Call of Duty
  • eSports Players Share Suspiciously Similar Tweets After Playing Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Multiplayer
  • DICE Employees Backtrack After Blasting Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Trailer On Twitter
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 update 1.10 lets you choose menu music, introduces many fixes
• Overwatch open beta content is what full game will have on launch
• Has Remedy fixed Quantum Break on PC?
  Patch 1.7 allows 60fps and adds an option to remove upscaling – but big problems persist.
• Forza 6
  • Forza 6 Apex beta – known issues and workarounds
  • Nascar Expansion coming to Forza 6?
• The Witcher 3 ‘Blood & Wine’ Expansion Out May 30
• Fallout 4’s Survival Mode update is live on PS4 and Xbox One
• TIME TRIALS WEEK (May 6 – 12): Double GTA$ & RP in Daily Freemode Time Trials + 50% off Some of GTA Online‘s Fastest Vehicles and More
• Plan New Dark Souls Characters With This Online Tool
• Batman: Return to Arkham Inside WB Games Italian Magazine, Coming June 10
• Suda 51’s first game, The Silver Case, is getting a western remake
  Due exclusively on PC this autumn.

Winston politely requested the Open Beta be extended for another day. We happy obliged! | https://t.co/CmyEFVCt0m pic.twitter.com/S3csMtWlvA

— Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) May 7, 2016

Sales & Discounts

• NBA Live 16 is coming to EA Access this month

Consoles & Hardware

• Nvidia unveils GTX 1080 and GTX 1070: a new level in GPU power
• In Theory: Can AMD Polaris regain the mainstream PC graphics market?
  New leaks offer a clearer picture of prospective R9 470/R9 480 performance in the sub-£200 category.

Industry

• Epic Games might never make another single-player game
  The future is free-to-play multiplayer
• Dark Souls 3 tops YouTube’s trending games in April

eSports

• West Ham becomes first Premiership club to sign its own esports star

Videos

• Battlefield 1 Official Reveal Trailer
  Set in World War 1, arrives 21 October. Early access on Xbox One. More information.

• Battlefield 1 Reveal Trailer Analysis

• Official Call of Duty: Black Ops III – Eclipse DLC Pack: Zetsubou No Shima Trailer
  Eclipse DLC arrives 19 May for Xbox One and PC.

• Mafia 3 Driving Gameplay

• Heroes of the Storm ranked play relaunching in June, new characters confirmed

• Hunter Dream UE4
  Bloodborne Environment recreated in Unreal Engine 4 by EA/DICE Artist