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YouTube creator Freddie Wong talks season 2 of ‘VGHS,’ and how to scare Hollywood

We speak with Freddie Wong and Matt Arnold, two of the creators of the web series 'Video Game High School' as it debuts its second season, and what the success of web-based shows mean for entertainment.
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Major League Gaming prepares for the next generation of consoles

Major League Gaming president and co-founder Mike Sepso is open to exploring new opportunities for streaming competitive gaming content beyond the organizations well-established Twitch partnership.
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Making competitive gaming fair: MLG’s President talks about creating a balance

Major League Gaming wants to become more ESPN and less NFL by making sure games are eSports-ready out of the box. We speak with MLG President Mike Sepso about the future of eSports.
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‘PlanetSide 2’ brings the lessons of its predecessor to eSports engagements

'PlanetSide 2' creative director discusses the vision of bringing the massively multiplayer first-person shooter in the competitive world of eSports with the addition of Battle Islands and cross-continent play.
Gaming Features

Don Mattrick’s deal to take CEO role at Zynga worth a reported $50 million

A filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reveals that soon-to-be-former Microsoft exec Don Mattrick was lured into joining Zynga as its new CEO with a deal worth roughly $50 million.
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‘Fez’ due for patch following Microsoft’s elimination of Xbox Live Arcade update fees

Polytron Corporation's Phil Fish confirms that a patch is incoming for his Xbox Live Arcade game, 'Fez,' following Microsoft's move of eliminating the title update fees that Xbox 360 developers must pay for XBL Arcade games.
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American McGee seeking $500K on Kickstarter to regain ‘Alice’ film rights

The creator and name behind 'American McGee's Alice' and 'Alice: Madness Returns' has inked a deal to regain the film rights to his projects, but it requires him to shell out $500K over the next four years.
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Windows head Julie Larson-Green could be put in charge of Xbox hardware

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is said to have a massive restructuring plan in the works. The plan could see current Windows head Julie Larson-Green put in charge of all Microsoft hardware, including Xbox consoles and Surface tablets.
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Double Fine’s $3.3 million in Kickstarter funds wasn’t enough to finish ‘Broken Age’

Tim Schafer wrote in an update to Kickstarter backers that he designed 'Broken Age' too big for the money they had. Now the studio plans to release an incomplete version of the adventure game on Steam Early Access in January, then use the funds made from selling that to complete the rest of it and release the second half as a free update in April or May.
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Ubisoft hacked and account info accessed, publisher recommends a password change

Hackers access a Ubisoft website and obtain confidential account information, including user names, email addresses, and encrypted passwords. An email from the publisher strongly recommends that all Uplay account holders change their password.
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Xbox One won’t launch until 2014 in Japan

Microsoft Japan president and CEO Yasuyuki Higuchi confirms that the Xbox One won't be released in Japan until 2014, owing to the fact that the country is deemed a 'tier 2' market.
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Major League Gaming aims for recognition as a top five U.S. sport

Digital Trends sat down with MLG president Mike Sepso at the Major League Gaming 2013 Spring Championship to chat about his plans and strategies for shaping the future of the league.
Gaming Features

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer temporarily takes over for departing Don Mattrick

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will temporarily take over for Don Mattrick in the wake of the news that the soon-to-be-former Xbox chief heads to Zynga on July 8, 2013 as the company's new CEO.
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Nintendo appeal to recover WiiU.com from domain squatter denied

Nintendo's request to recover the WiiU.com URL from a domain squatter is denied, likely owing to the fact that the domain was registered in 2004, before either the Wii or the Wii U were announced.
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The results are in: MLG Spring Championship 2013 concludes with record setting attendance

The winners in 'Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm,' 'League of Legends,' and 'Call of Duty: Black Ops 2' took home a total of $50,000 in front of a record setting audience of 21,000 fans.
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‘The Last of Us’ patch removes functioning phone sex number from in-game posters

The latest patch for Naughty Dog's 'The Last of Us' strips out working phone sex numbers that were accidentally printed on in-game signage. The update also improves and makes fixes to a number of multiplayer issues.
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A look inside Major League Gaming’s 2013 Spring Championship

The latest in Major League Gaming's 2013 tournament tour takes it to sunny California, where gamers mingle with their icons just down the street from "the happiest place on Earth."
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Time Warner Cable app coming to Xbox 360 with 300 live channels for subscribers

Microsoft and Time Warner Cable partner up to bring a TWC app to Xbox 360, offering subscribers with Xbox Live Gold membership access to as many as 300 channels, including favorites like Comedy Central and CNN.
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Double Fine’s ‘Massive Chalice’ closes Kickstarter with $1.2 million

Double Fine's second Kickstarter campaign closes at $1.2 million, nearly double its funding goal. 'Massive Chalice' is said to blend 'XCOM,' 'Fire Emblem,' 'FF Tactics,' and 'Game of Thrones' in a generation-spanning strategy game.
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Ouya now available at retail as backer units are delayed

The $99 Android console hits store shelves today across North America and the U.K. But some of the units owed to those who funded the device on Kickstarter have not yet arrived, prompting an apology from Ouya CEO Julie Uhrman.
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That didn’t take long: Porn comes to Ouya

SugarDVD bills itself as similar to Netflix, but for porn. For a fee of $7.95 per month, subscribers are now able to access to thousands adult videos directly on their Ouya console.
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Xbox One and Windows PCs require separate second-gen Kinect hardware

Microsoft second-gen Kinect that ships with Xbox One won't be compatible with Windows PCs. Software developers will need a separate Kinect for Windows device, and early SDK access applications for that are now open.
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Nvidia Shield launch pushed to July 2013 due to ‘mechanical issue’

Nvidia pushes the release of its Shield gaming device back from June 27, 2013 into an unspecified July date, citing a "mechanical issue" discovered during quality testing as the cause.
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Microsoft’s Phil Spencer confirms that the ‘Crackdown’ franchise isn’t dead

The last Crackdown game was 'Crackdown 2' in 2010, but a symbol from the game appeared briefly during the Xbox One announcement. Nothing appeared at E3, but Microsoft's Phil Spencer now confirms that the franchise is not dead.
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Xbox One doesn’t come with a headset, but Kinect still works for voice chat

Microsoft confirms that the Xbox One ships with no headset, and that console users will instead be able to make use of the new Kinect camera's powerful microphone and noise filtering capabilities.
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‘Saints Row IV’ refused rating in Australia, the first since R18+ was introduced

Australia's Classification Board refuses to assign a rating to 'Saints Row IV,' effectively banning the game's release in the country. This marks the first ban in Australia since the introduction of the R18+ rating.
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Hideo Kojima wants a ‘Metal Gear Solid’ remake for Fox Engine

Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima is interested in finding a developer to remake 1998's 'Metal Gear Solid' using Kojima Productions' Fox Engine, the same middleware powering the upcoming 'Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain'.
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Sony one-ups Microsoft with more PS4 exclusives in first year

Sony attempts to trump Microsoft once more after revealing that it has 30 PlayStation 4 exclusives in development. Twenty of those will arrive in the console's first year, and 12 of those are brand new IPs.
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Madden’s creator wins court ruling against EA

Original Madden creator Robin Antonick won a small, but significant victory in his case against EA, which he claims owes him royalties on all Madden games released between now and 1986.
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Ellen Page doesn’t appreciate Naughty Dog ‘ripping off’ her likeness in ‘The Last of Us’

'Beyond: Two Souls' star Ellen Page seems miffed that the character Ellie in Naughty Dog's 'The Last of Us' apparently resembles her. She addressed that resemblance in a recent Reddit AMA.
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‘NBA Live 14’ confirmed a next-gen exclusive for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

EA Sports confirms that NBA Live 14 is exclusive to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One console. The game's executive producer outlines some new features that he hopes will help compete with the NBA 2K series.
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Xbox Live ‘Games with Gold’ free titles arrive 1st and 16th of every month

The "Games with Gold" program that Microsoft revealed during E3 starts with Fable 3, available for free until the end of the month to Gold subscribers. After that a new game will be free for a limited time on the 1st and 16th of every month.
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EA’s Online Pass stays dead despite Xbox One DRM reversal

Electronic Arts re-confirms that the company has no plans to revive its Online Pass system in light of Microsoft's license transfer policy changes from earlier this week.
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Ubisoft, EA cite low hardware sales as cause of flagging third-party Wii U support

Key executives from Ubisoft and Electronic Arts cite the low sales numbers for the Wii U as the main reason for their flagging third-party support of Nintendo's latest gaming console.
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PS4 players can prioritize what sections of a game to download first

Sony released a video showing off the PS4's interface that also shows a user telling the console to download the multiplayer portion of 'Killzone: Shadow Fall' before the single player version. It's unclear if all games have this option. The video also shows off some messaging and sharing capabilities.
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Rhode Island establishes plan to repay 38 Studios’ loan debts

The state of Rhode Island sets a plan in motion that will see the $89 million loan debt left behind by the now-defunct 38 Studios paid back over a period of years.
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Xbox One pre-orders now sold out at GameStop retail locations

GameStop says demand is high for Microsoft's new Xbox One console and that brick-and-mortar stores nationwide are sold out on pre-orders, though PlayStation 4 pre-orders continue to be available.
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Steam beta update code reveals possible game sharing feature

Several lines of code discovered in Valve Corporation's latest beta update for the Steam client suggests that a game-sharing feature may soon be implemented for users of the service.
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