Gaming News Wrap [31 Mar 2016]

Seize the day. You can do it. And if the Gaming News Wrap helps you achieve that, we’re even more happy for you.

Games

• Call of Duty
  • Leaks update claims COD2016 features ‘combat in spaceships,’ featuring a ‘central hub area’
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 – Awakening free to play on PS4 alongside Double XP this weekend
• Mass Effect: Andromeda marketing survey leaks
• [Destiny] April Update
• Why Rocket League blew up (and its predecessor didn’t)
  “It’s basically the same game.”
• Overwatch characters: full list – all 21 heroes
• Battleborn‘s system requirements revealed, and they’re pretty modest
• StarCraft II patch 3.2 brings Nova Covert Ops standalone DLC
• Shadow of the Beast release date announced
  Aarbron’s brutal PS4 adventure begins on 17th May

Ready for your first look at #BlackOps3 DLC 2? @Treyarch has you covered on Thursday. pic.twitter.com/KgDEHrUCPo

— Call of Duty (@CallofDuty) March 29, 2016

Break some axles in the Dunk House this April! #RocketLeagueHoops pic.twitter.com/VA23YUEEXM

— Rocket League (@RocketLeague) March 29, 2016

Consoles & Hardware

• Razer made a game capture card designed for livestreaming
  The Ripsaw promises full-quality footage for your Twitch or YouTube sessions.
• HoloLens kits will start shipping to developers from today
• Xbox developers will be able to more easily convert games to PC with some porting wizardry
• All future Forza games are coming to Windows 10
• Starting today, anyone can turn their Xbox One into a dev kit for free
• Xbox One: Background Music, Cortana, store convergence coming this summer
• Dead Space now backwards compatible on Xbox One
• Twitch app finally available on PlayStation 4 in the UK

Industry

• Divide and conquer: the next step for Respawn
• Meet the tester who changed Street Fighter
  How Ryuichi Shigeno came to be Street Fighter 5’s battle director.
• American McGee’s Spicy Horse studio cuts staff, ditches F2P

Hints & Tips

• Dota 2 console commands, launch options and cheats

eSports

• Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba reinstates the World Cyber Games with $5.5 million in total prize money
• ESL Reveal the eSports Hall of Fame
• ESL Launch UK Studio
• Panda Global In Hot Water Over Commentator Diversity Image

Videos

• PlayStation Plus in April:
  Zombi, Dead Star, Shutshimi, I Am Alive, A Virus Named Tom and Savage Moon complete the line-up

• The Making of UNCHARTED 4: A Thief’s End – In The End

• Free Survivor Mode Coming to Far Cry Primal

• You can play TimeSplitters 2’s first two levels in Homefront: The Revolution

• Mortal Kombat X eSports season kicks off in April with $500,000 prize pool

• SFV: Alex Release Trailer

• Final Fantasy 15 release date, demo, anime, movie, collector’s editions detailed
  Game arrives 30 September

• The Gallery: Call of the Starseed – HTC Vive Launch Trailer

• Tokyo 42 – Announcement Trailer

• Brotherhood Final Fantasy XV – Episode 1