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Avatar Delayed

Ubisoft have delayed open world action adventure game Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and are now aiming for a 2023-24 launch.

While such delays in gaming are common, just two months ago they announced it would launch in the final quarter of this year which would have coincided with the Avatar film.

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Blocks Block Blockchain

Mojang, developers of online block building game Minecraft which is the world's best-selling video game, have issued a statement clarifying their stance on NFTs (non-fungible tokens).

While their statement notes the possibility of this changing in the future, right now it is a very firm "no".

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Xenoblade Explained

Without any previous experience of the property, June's action roleplaying game Xenoblade Chronicles 3 trailers left us scratching our heads in bewilderment.

Maybe it wasn't just us they confused because those have been followed up with a great 8 minute introductory trailer which sets up the game's story then demonstrates and showcases key features.

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No Man's Endurance

No Man's Sky have released a literally freighter sized update titled Endurance. Possibly a reference to the developer's endurance through a tumultuous launch and its aftermath.

It brings a major overhaul of building on freighters and their capabilities (eg. scanning planets from space), organic frigates, living ship upgrades, new spatial phenomena to explore and greater variation and size of asteroid fields.

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Blizzard Branding

Blizzard are one of the biggest names in gaming but courtesy of allegations of unsavoury workplace practices and infamously unpopular monetization of fantasy online roleplaying game Diablo Immortal, their brand is presently a bit on the nose.

And now they want it on your skin. Permanently.

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Glen Schofield Interview

Game Informer have published a short six minute interview with Glen Schofield about the origin of his upcoming sci-fi horror survival game The Callisto Protocol.

Including a small amount of new gameplay footage.

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Sad It Isn't Sci-Fi

This one definitely doesn't qualify as news but it's a fun quote from the realm of science-fiction versus fantasy.

During an interview with Game Rant, fantasy multiplayer survival roleplaying game Frozen Flame developer Serge Korolev shared an unexpected gem from the PC Gaming Show.

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News or Clickbait?

Regulars here would know that like quite a lot of gamers, we're not a fan of microtransactions.

However we're also not fans of dishonesty and last week potentially saw this in relation to Unity CEO John Ricciotello.

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TennoCon 2022

Coming out of TennoCon 2022, the annual convention for free-to-play online mech piloting shooter Warframe, is quite a few reveals.

A trailer for the new Prime warframe Khora, a trailer for the upcoming Veilbreaker update, a trailer and also the first 20 minutes of gameplay for The Duviri Paradox expansion coming later this year, and finally an animated teaser for the 50th Warframe Styanax.

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Warframe Sister

Most gamers would be aware that Warframe is one of the best and most popular (currently seventh most played) massively online roleplaying games (MMOs).

Its developers, Digital Extremes, have just announced a sister game called Soulcraft, which they hope to have a playable (though not final release) version of within a year.

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