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Bungie apologise for Destiny: The Taken King controversy

Bungie have taken to the internet to apologise for the fair amount of controversy surrounding the upcoming The Taken King expansion.

Bungie have used this week’s Weekly Update to apologise to fans of their MMO shooter Destiny, following a lot of controversy around the next expansion for the game, The Taken King.

Taking to their weekly blog, Bungie revealed that players who already own Destiny, along with it’s first two expansions, need not buy The Taken King’s full priced release. Instead, Bungie will make a digital download…

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Splatoon Sells Over 1 Million Copies

Splatoon has put Nintendo in a ''nice position'' after selling 1 million copies worldwide. That's pretty ink-redible.

Splatoon, the inky new shooter from Nintendo, has sold over 1 million copies worldwide since it’s release in late May, Nintendo has revealed.

The 1 million figure is set to be broken down in to roughly 476,000 physical and digital copies in America, over 368,000 copies in Japan (where it sold out at launch), 230,000 in Europe and over 20,000 in Australia and New Zealand combined.

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Kingdom Hearts 3 has a release window internally at Square Enix

Square Enix know when Kingdom Hearts 3 is coming out. Tell us now, please?

Kingdom Hearts 3 has a release window, albeit internally at Square Enix, game director Tetsuya Nomura has confirmed during an interview with Famitsu and Dengeki PlayStation.

Translated by Gematsu, the interviews reveal a few new key details about Kingdom Hearts 3’s development cycle, such as gameplay mechanics and story details. Nomura also revealed that while they have nothing to announce yet,…

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Batman: Arkham Knight Launch Trailer Has Descended

Fans of both Batman and Muse are now able to benefit from the ‘actually really damn well done’ combination of the two, with the very final and very awesome launch trailer for Rocksteady’s final entry in their iconic Arkham series; Batman: Arkham Knight.

I have taken it upon myself to give all you guys who visit The Bit, an acceptably written piece of news, because if our chief writer Mr. Tom Dent…

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The Bitcast E3: Sony and Square Enix Wrap-Up

Listen to our wrap-up of the Sony & Square-Enix E3 media briefings!

Good evening everybody! We’re going to keep this one short and sweet, as this week has been utterly, utterly incredible for the world of video games (and we don’t want you to read too much!).

So here at The Bit, with all the excitement and buzz of E3 we’ve decided to take it upon ourselves to give you guys a couple of round-up podcasts full to the brim of the opinions of just a couple of guys who…

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Kingdom Hearts 3 gets new footage, and it is breathtaking.

Kingdom Hearts 3 surprised us all and made an appearance at E3. Of course, it looks brilliant.

One of the nicest surprises of this year’s E3 was Square Enix showing off a brand new trailer for the upcoming Kingdom Hearts 3. Missed it? You can check out the wonderfully colourful trailer down below.

Square Enix took to the stage Tuesday evening, a first for the publisher, to show off what they had in store for their loyal fans for 2015 and beyond. Originally, Tetsuya Nomura – Kingdom Hearts’…

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By the Power of Shin-Ra! Final Fantasy VII Remake Officially Coming!

Well that’s it people. We can all die happy now, as Square Enix have officially unveiled a remake for one of the most critically acclaimed JRPG’s of all time: Final Fantasy VII.

Unveiled in Sony’s press briefing in the early of this morning (for us UK folks), the announcement came as a huge surprise, with the majority of fans losing their entire stash of marbles over, but as always there are…

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Finally, DOOM gets a bloody disgusting new trailer!

Finally, DOOM gets a bloody disgusting new trailer!

With E3 well under way and a complete ton of excitement happening in every nook and cranny of the video game world, Bethesda took the stage last night for their very first E3 Press Briefing.

Following on from the news of Fallout 4 and it’s excellent looking Pip-Boy Collectors Edition, we’ve been treated with our very first official look at the brand new blood soaked reboot of DOOM.

The trailer…

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The Park is Open in TT Game's Lego Jurassic World

The Park is Open in TT Game’s Lego Jurassic World

It’s been just over 22 years since the original Jurassic Park launched in cinemas across the world, and almost 15 years since the, arguably bad, third instalment. Some would say the series needed to take a serious break, and luckily that’s exactly what we’ve been given.

Now today sees the release of Jurassic World, and what’s more fabled Lego game developer Travellers Tales has released their…

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Hellblade - Ninja Theory's game that explores mental illness.

Hellblade – Ninja Theory’s game that explores mental illness.

Sony’s exclusive line up for this year may be a little sparse, even so for them to even admit it, but that doesn’t mean 2016 isn’t already shaping up to be something special.

Ninja Theory, known for their previous works on the excellent titles Heavenly Sword, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West and the re-envisioned DmC: Devil May Cry, have given us a brand new trailer for their upcoming epic Hellblade.

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Brand New Ratchet & Clank Trailer Released.

Brand New Ratchet & Clank Trailer Released.

Good lord! Insomniac have gone and released an absolutely terrific new trailer for the upcoming reboot/remake of the original Ratchet & Clank. Based on the film, which is based on the game, the new trailer boasts incredible visuals, with lots and lots of fancy colours and explosions.

Watch the trailer below for one minute and forty seconds of pure joy!

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The Last Guardian apparently making an appearance at E3

Reports suggest The Last Guardian will finally reemerge during E3 2015, but take this with a whole bag of salt.

Take this with the biggest pinch of salt.

The Last Guardian, Team Ico’s follow up to Shadow of the Colossus and Ico, may finally rear it’s head at Sony’s press conference at E3 next week.

The Guardian have posted a rundown of their most anticipated titles for this year’s E3 press conferences, and suggest that ”this will be the year that Team Ico finally presents its follow-up to much loved…

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Retro Studios tease an appearance at E3 this year

Retro Studios ask ''can you dig it''? The Metroid and Donkey Kong Country developers are teasing an appearance at this year's E3.

Retro Studios, creators of the Metroid Prime series and 2014’s Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, have teased an appearance at this year’s E3.

On their official Twitter account yesterday, the studio posted the below tweet:

https://twitter.com/RetroStudios/status/608307402312679424

While this doesn’t completely guarantee an appearance from the studio during Nintendo’s Digital Event at E3 2015,…

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All Halo 5: Guardians map packs will be free

343 Industries won't charge you a penny for Halo 5's map packs. They want us all to feel ''united''.

Following Halo 5: Guardians’ launch later this year, 343 Industries have 15 downloadable maps set for release. When they drop, 343 won’t be asking for any money for them.

Speaking to Game Informer for their July cover story, 343 studio heard Josh Holmes revealed the welcome news, explaining that the decision was made in order to keep the player-base united.

When you have paid map packs and…

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MGS5 PS4 Coming to the West!

MGS5 PS4 Coming to the West!

Well this is a fantastic surprise to start off the week! The lovely folks over at Sony and Konami have revealed that the previously ‘Japan-Only’ Metal Gear Solid 5 themed PS4 is now officially headed to the west!

Fans of the series can rejoice as the announcement was made earlier today via the official Playstation Blog and it’s awesome. Truly awesome.

As you can see the console features a red…

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Fallout 4 won't be coming to PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360

Bethesda have put to rest any talk of Fallout 4 coming to previous generation consoles.

Bethesda have confirmed that Fallout 4 won’t be coming to previous generation consoles, putting to rest rumours that the open-world game would launch as cross-generational.

Answering questions within a NeoGAF thread over the weekend, Matt Grandstaff – global community manager at Bethesda Softworks – replied with a very definitive answer.

”It is not coming to 360 and PS3, the stuff we’re doing…

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Phil Spencer provides update on Crackdown development

Phil Spencer has given us an update on the development of the new Crackdown, but it may not be at E3 this year.

At last year’s E3, Microsoft announced the return of Crackdown, coming to the Xbox One. Now, Xbox boss Phil Spencer has provided an update on the game’s development.

Answering a curious fan on Twitter, Spencer mentioned that development is going smoothly but stopped short of saying whether or not we would see Crackdown at this year’s Microsoft E3 press briefing in a couple of weeks.

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