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Massive Chalice

Double Fine’s generation-spanning Massive Chalice leaves Early Access in June

Double Fine's latest game Massive Chalice leaves Steam Early Access for full release on June 1, with the Xbox One version to follow.
Dragon Quest VIII

Dragon Quest VIII returns in portable form on the Nintendo 3DS

Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King is being revived on the Nintendo 3DS. The game will sell for 5,980 yen or roughly $50 USD.
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Soon you’ll be able to order a pizza by tweeting emoji at Domino’s

Domino's latest feat of techno-wizardry allows customers to order a pizza using nothing but Twitter and a few choice emoji.
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Message your friends like a spy with BitTorrent Bleep’s new ‘whisper’ messages

With the release of an iOS app, BitTorrent Bleep is publicly available across all platforms. The company also announced a new feature it calls “whispers.”
Grandia II

Another classic RPG returns as Dreamcast favorite Grandia II heads to Steam

GungHo Online Entertainment, perhaps best known for mobile money-factory Puzzle & Dragons, is set to bring the Dreamcast classic Grandia II to Steam.
Apple Watch

Apple Watch survives brutal barrage of waterproofing tests

Ray Maker took a look at the list of things Apple Watch users are told not to do, and put every single one of them that was related to water to the test.
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Streaming music revenues continue to grow as digital downloads keep falling

Warner Music Group reported in its latest earnings call that streaming revenue surpassed digital downloads in Q2 2015, a first for a major label.
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Meet Banjo-Kazooie successor Yooka-Laylee’s newest character: Trowzer the snake

Banjo-Kazooie spiritual successor Yooka-Laylee got its first supporting character in a Kickstarter update yesterday: Trowzer the snake.
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Sick of waiting for Star Citizen? Play it as a 2D retro shooter for free instead

Star Citizen is taking a long time to build, but in the meantime, the game has been reimagined as a free to play retro 2D shooter.
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The Void will combine VR headsets and real environments for maximum immersion

More than another VR headset, The Void will combine virtual worlds and physical environments, and it could come as soon as summer 2016.
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Mum’s the word: Nintendo won’t talk NX or smartphone games at this year’s E3

Nintendo won't be talking about its upcoming NX console, mobile games, or its "quality of life" initiative at this year's E3.
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eBay sellers charging over $1,000 for PlayStation 4 with Silent Hills PT demo installed

Enterprising sellers on eBay are selling PlayStation 4 consoles with the discontinued Silent Hills demo P.T. pre-installed.
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Sega plans to remove older mobile games from app stores, won’t say which ones

Sega will be removing a number of mobile games from various mobile app stores but it hasn't said which games will be removed.
Destiny Nepal Aid shirt

Destiny developer Bungie’s community raises $400,000 for Nepal earthquake relief

Destiny developer Bungie began selling shirts last week with all profits going to Nepalese earthquake relief, which have already raised $400,000.
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Nintendo plans to release five smartphone games by 2017, with the first coming this year

In a briefing today Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said that the company plans to release five smartphone games by 2015.
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The Rockstar Editor is coming to Grand Theft Auto V on PlayStation 4, Xbox One

The Rockstar Editor from the PC edition of Grand Theft Auto V will indeed be coming to the game on consoles as well.
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Nintendo reports its first profitable year since 2011

According to Nintendo's latest fiscal report, the company saw a ¥41 billion ($350 million) profit for the last fiscal year ending March 31.
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Nintendo teams up with Universal for something close to a real-life Nintendo Land

Nintendo and Universal announced today that the “world of Nintendo” would be coming to Universal theme parks.
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SoundCloud hasn’t shown Sony the money, and Sony is pulling a lot of its artists’ music

Sony Music is reportedly pulling songs from many of its artists from SoundCloud due to “a lack of monetization opportunities.”
Dextro Periscope Streams

This app can help you find Periscope streams that are actually interesting

New York-based startup Dextro is using machine learning algorithms to find Periscope streams that actually interest you.
Mortal Kombat X PC

Fatality! Mortal Kombat X PC patch pulled after deleting save data

A patch issued yesterday was supposed to fix many of the PC version of Mortal Kombat X's issues, but deleted players' save data instead.
Black Mesa

Like the original Half-Life, but shinier: Black Mesa now in Steam Early Access

Black Mesa is a “re-imagining” of Half-Life, approved by its developer Valve Software, and now available in Steam Early Access.
Dragon Age Inquisition Livestream

Free DLC and new patch come to Dragon Age: Inquisition today

The already huge world of Dragon Age: Inquisition is about to get a little bit bigger with the release of two new pieces of DLC today.
Timeful App

Google plans to make Inbox and Calendar think for you with Timeful acquisition

Google has acquired iOS time management app Timeful, with plans to halt development of the app and use its technology in its Inbox and Calendar apps.
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PlayStation Now brings on-demand game streaming to the PS3 on May 12

Good news has come at last for eager PS3 owners waiting for their shot at the service, as PlayStation now officially arrives on the PS3 on May 12.
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Banjo-Kazooie devs’ Yooka-Laylee smashes funding goals in less than a day

A spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie from former Rare developers, Yooka-Laylee was successfully funded less than an hour in its Kickstarter campaign.
Meerkat streaming app

Meerkat embraces Facebook, distances itself from Twitter

In what seems to be a response to Twitter limiting the app's access to its social graph, Meerkat has added support for Facebook in its latest update.
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HTC One Mini and One Mini 2 won’t get update to Android Lollipop

HTC has confirmed in a series of tweets that neither the HTC One Mini or One Mini 2 will be seeing updates to Android 5.0 Lollipop.
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Mozilla wants to force the web to be more secure by holding features hostage

Mozilla wants to see the web using only secure HTTPS connections, and it's willing to hold features in its Firefox browser hostage to make it happen.
Valve headquarters

Valve introduces permanent game bans, defers decisions to developers

Valve has introduced Game Bans on Steam, allowing developers to permanently ban "disruptive players" from their games.
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YouTube is 10 years old, and will celebrate for 26 days

YouTube is celebrating its 10-year anniversary by looking back at some of the best content posted to the site, from A to Z.
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Payday 2 developer bringing The Walking Dead FPS to PS4, Xbox One, PC

Fans of The Walking Dead and first-person shooters rejoice, as Overkill's The Walking Dead is coming to the PC, PS4 and Xbox One in 2016.
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Finally we can embed classic MS-DOS games within tweets

If you're always running out of interesting things to tweet, try embedding a classic MS-DOS game from the Internet Archive.
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Peer into the future of Chrome with the developer version, now available on Android

Android users eager for a peek into the future of Chrome can now download the browsers developer version on the Google Play Store.