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The latest issue of PC Gamer magazine has hit the stands with none other than Mark Hamill gracing the cover in his Star Citizen role of Lt. Commander Steve ‘Old Man’ Colton. The PC Gamer team has posted a great video showing the motion capture that Hamill underwent for his role. In addition, Hamill speaks to his role in the game, in Star Wars and much more. It’s a fantastic fifteen minute look at a beloved star of movies and games.
Wargaming is inviting PlayStation 4 owners to come check out World of Tanks on December 4th through December 6th during a special open beta event. Players will earn some exclusive rewards for taking part including a special PlayStation 20th Anniversary M22 Locust, special camouflage and more.
Hearthstone players have had a week to get going with the new expansion, League of Explorers. With the first wing behind them, players can now log into the game to try their literal and figurative hands at Uldaman, wing two of League of Explorers.
Nvidia is taking on the challenges of bringing virtual reality with streamlined processing power to gamers everywhere. As part of the forward vision, Nvidia has launched both GameWorks VR and DesignWorks VR that are already being included in future games by Epic Games and others.
Square Enix has announced that Dragon Quest Heroes: Slime Edition will be officially launching for PC on December 3, 2015. The Slime Edition features eleven additional weapons and two bonus maps along with Steam achievements and badges.
A game is assuredly a success when it makes Fortune magazine. In an article posted the other day, it was revealed that Bethesda and the Fallout 4 team raked in $750M in day one sales. That translates to 12M copies sold in the first 24-hours.
In the latest ARK: Survival Evolved digest posted to the game’s Steam page, the team announced that the XBox One release is "imminent". There is no word on other console versions, but this is pretty exciting news!
Artcraft has announced the start of the latest pre-alpha event for Crowfall. Today’s testing event will include 4,000 players taking part and will be integral in testing core RPG elements including grouping and monster combat. In addition, several performance improvements have been made since the last event that should bring a new feel to combat.
With only a few days left until the commencement of the Albion Online closed beta event, the team is unleashing start times for players of various founder levels and have additionally announced a Reddit AMA that will take place in about an hour.
The Das Tal team has taken to its official site to discuss with players the importance of their feedback both during the 24/7 test event and in the subsequent days. Taking the community input into consideration, the blog is packed with things the developers will be working on in the next weeks and months.