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Bonfire Studios has been announced and features an all-star team of developers including Rob Pardo (ex-Blizzard), Min Kim (ex-Nexon), ex-Blizzard developers Josh Mosquiera (Diablo) and Matthew Versluys. Bonfire Games has been fully funded to the tune of $25M through a joint investment by Riot Games and Andreessen Horowitz.

Perfect World Entertainment and Cryptic Studios have annouced that the console version of Star Trek Online is now in full live release. XBox One and PlayStation 4 players can access the game through the Legacy of Romulus and the Delta Rising expansions.

During the PlayStation conference that just wrapped up, Sony announced the PlayStation 4 Pro that will be headed out to stores (online and retail) on November 10th. The PS4P will sell for $399. The GPU power is nearly double the standard PS4 and will be backward compatible for current titles, but will also be ready for HDR gaming and 4K gaming.

Former ArenaNet Guild Wars 2 Game Director Colin Johanson has updated his LinkedIn profile to indicate that he is now employed by Amazon Game Studios. Johanson joins the ever-growing list of game development luminaries that are now with AGS.

4:33 Creative Lab is introducing a new mobile title called Monster Super League. The game challenges players to travel through a dynamic game world to capture and train up to 550 unique Astromon. Once done, players can take on others in league PvP mayhem and win rare rewards for participation.

Masangsoft and InselGames have announced that World of Fishing, an angler’s MMO, has arrived on Steam starting today. The newly arrived game comes complete with a new level cap, three new maps including one PvP map, new baits, boats, and rods.

Bluehole has released a 2-minute video featuring alpha gameplay footage from PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. The video shows a number of different situations in which players might find themselves, including jumping from a plane, equipping items, fighting other players and more.

Torn Banner Studios is on hand at this weekend’s Pax West gaming convention in Seattle, Washington. During the earliest hours of the events the team showed off 12 minutes of the gameplay action of the alpha build of multiplayer action Mirage: Arcane Warfare.

The Kingdom Come: Deliverance team has posted a new video diary to show what exactly a weapon can do to a suit of armor. Depending on the weapon type and the foe’s equipped armor, the damage can be pretty impressive.

Runescape: Idle Adventures has officially launched on Steam Early Access. Said to deliver the ‘greatest story ever played’, all is revealed in 90 second chunks. It is an idle story with a grand story.