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Tuesday, May 23, 2017

June Free Xbox Games With Gold Announced

June's line-up of free Xbox One and Xbox 360 games for Gold subscribers has been announced.

The full lineup, plus when they'll be available, is:

SpeedRunners — June 1-30 (Xbox One)
Watch Dogs — June 16 - July 15 (Xbox One)
Assassin's Creed III — June 1-15 (Xbox 360 & Xbox One)
Dragon Age: Origins — June 16-30 (Xbox 360 & Xbox One)
Phantom Dust DLC — June 1 - 30

Announced back in 2014, SpeedRunners is a multiplayer side-scrolling racing game that won the Gamer's Voice Award at the SXSW Gaming Awards in 2015.

The first Watch Dogs released in 2014 from Ubisoft. IGN gave Watch Dogs an 8.4 at the time, saying the hacking action game "is fundamentally very well made, and has more than enough unique ideas to make it a great and memorable open-world action game. Its sequel released in 2016 — for more on that game, check out IGN's Watch Dogs 2 review.

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Valve Hires Kerbal Space Program Team

The Kerbal Space Program team is now a part of Valve.

As a guest on the Game Dev Unchained podcast, ex-Valve employee Roger Lundeen mentioned that his former company hired the Kerbal Space Program team around five or six months ago.

PC Games Network then clarified the comments with Lundeen and Valve. A company representative said: "Yes, they joined a little while ago, and we will have more news about what they are doing soon."

Kerbal Space Program is a space flight simulation game that's been available for years on PC and came to consoles last year. For more on the game, check out IGN's Kerbal Space Program review for the PS4 edition.

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Metal Gear Survive: Road to E3 2017

It's that time of year again: E3 2017 is just on the horizon. From June 10-15, we'll be covering the biggest games and hardware announcements of 2017 and beyond. While you can check out our continually-updated Games of E3 List, we're now going to start diving deeper.

Every day leading up to the show, we'll be highlight the stuff we want to see and play at E3 2017. Today's game: Metal Gear Survive.

One game we're hoping to see more of at E3 is Metal Gear Survive, a side-story to Metal Gear Solid V that follows four Diamond Dog soldiers who've been sucked out of the mainline Metal Gear universe via wormhole and stranded in a desolate alternate dimension filled with crystalized zombie-like creatures, where, as you might've guessed, they have to figure out how to survive.

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Revisiting Darksiders 1 and 2 With the Original Devs

While taking a deep dive on Darksiders 3 (check out all of our exclusive coverage here in case you've missed anything, we took the opportunity to play the first two again with the Gunfire Games developers. Learn secrets and hear stories about these beloved games that you've never heard before. Enjoy!

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Overwatch Anniversary Event Goes Live

It's Overwatch's first birthday, and there's a heap of new stuff to earn and enjoy from today.

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Cult Game El Shaddai to Get Spiritual Sequel

Game director Takeyasu Sawaki and Kadokawa Games have announced The Lost Child, a spiritual sequel to 2011's El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron.

The game - which swaps the first's precision brawling to become a turn-based RPG - is due out in Japan later this year on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita.

Announced in Famitsu (via Gematsu), The Lost Child takes place in the same world as El Shaddai and will feature the return of the archangel Lucifel, who was voiced by Harry Potter actor Jason Isaacs in the English version of El Shaddai. Development on the spiritual sequel is reportedly 90 percent complete.

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Hitman Developer Announces Layoffs

Hitman developer, Io Interactive has announced layoffs, following its enforced split with publisher/owner Square Enix.

Announced in a short statement on Twitter (below), the details are vague, simply saying that "we're sad that great talent and good friends will be leaving the studio."

An update from the studio: http://pic.twitter.com/k0aoms5cOQ

— Io-Interactive (@IOInteractive) May 23, 2017

It follows the announcement that Square Enix had decided to focus on "key franchises and studios" - of which Io and Hitman are apparently not a part - and had withdrawn from the business.

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