Game Length Does Not Drive A Game's Price, Ever

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Over the weekend, on Valentine's Day, a YouTube account leaked 16 videos that made up a complete walkthrough for Sony's newest exclusive, The Order: 1886, which will be out this Friday. The total running time for these videos combines at around 5 hours. This leak has kicked off an angry and vitriolic conversation across the web as to whether or not this game should be a full blown, $60 title. So that begs the question: Does play time really amount to the price of a game? 

Square Enix Wants Developers for Old Franchises, Including Gex and Fear Effect

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Square Enix has become quite a juggernaut over the years, picking up developers like Crystal Dynamics to increase the company's game library. Now, the publisher/developer is looking for help developing some of it's older franchises. 

Apple is Increasing Game Size Limit

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Apple will doubling the size of games for iOS, which is great news for gamers.

Reports Emerging That Apple is Rejecting Games With Gun Imagery

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Apple is cracking down on gun imagery on the App Store by denying approval for games that have guns in the logo or screenshots to display on the App Store.

Everquest Developer Laying Off Large Number of Staff

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Earlier this month we learned that Sony is selling off Sony Entertainment Online, which includes developers behind H1Z1 and Everquest. Today, information has surfaced that developer Daybreak, formerly SOE, will be laying off a large portion of it's staff.

Netflix is Working on A Legend of Zelda Series

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For years fans have been clamoring for a good, live action television or movie version of The Legend of Zelda series, and up until today, there has been little hope that it would ever happen. However, it looks as though Nintendo is teaming up with Netflix to make gamer's dreams come true.

Q*Bert is Making It's Return to Gaming With Q*Bert Rebooted

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Q*Bert, the famous old school puzzle game, is coming to PlayStation platforms.

Halo 5: Guardians to Change With Beta Feedback

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Halo 5: Guardians beta has been over for a while, but today developer 343 Industries revealed some interesting stats, as well as explaining some of the changes coming from the beta and user feedback.

Atlus Shows Off Persona 5 Gameplay With New Trailer

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This week has been full of Persona information as Atlus continues it's stream of various Persona games, but the biggest news comes in the form of a brand new trailer for Persona 5.

Sony Sells Off Sony Online Entertainment, Along With Game Franchises

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As of today, Sony Online Entertainment is no more. Sony has sold off the studio/publisher to investment firm Columbus Nova for an undisclosed amount of money.

Sega Restructuring; Moving Focus to PC and Mobile Games

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SEGA is downsizing it's American branch and moving the branch from it's current location in San Francisco to Southern California, according to the president and COO of SEGA of America John Cheng.

February Holds Ancient Greek and Sci-Fi Futuristic Adventures for PlayStation Plus Members

Today the PlayStation Plus games for the month of February, and they include the titular follow up to inFAMOUS Second Son.  

Sony Teams with Spotify for PlayStation Music

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Sony is closing down it's Music Unlimited service in exchange for a brand new program: PlayStation Music. But Sony won't be doing it alone, as the company announced today that Sony will partner with Spotify to create the online music program.

Februrary's Games With Gold Includes Hashtags and Snipers!

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The Xbox Games with Gold free games for February have been announced, and it looks like players will be getting a wide variety of games, including two excellent indie hits. 

The Last of Us Movie to Have Major Changes From Game

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The Last of Us movie is in full swing, according to game and movie writer Neil Drukmann. Despite working on Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Drukmann is currently working on the script for the movie, and says there are big changes in store.

PS Vita is Losing Some Apps

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It looks like the PS Vita is losing some of it's location feature apps, as well as YouTube support. 

Nintendo Shows Off Splatoon Equipment

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Nintendo has released some new screens to the third-person shooter Splatoon, with details explaining just how the customizable equipment will work in the game. 

Ken Levine Talks About New Game on Twitter

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With the new direction that Irrational Games (which will be getting a new name) is taking, founder Ken Levine has been very outspoken about trying to be as open as possible while the new game is being created. As such, Levine has taken to Twitter today to answer as many questions as possible about the new title. Here are some things I learned today:

Capcom Announces Next Dragon's Dogma Game

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Capcom's fantasy franchise Dragon's Dogma is getting a new iteration. Releasing on PS4, PS3 and PC, Dragon's Dogma Online will be a free-to-play title.

Xbox One Preview Members Get Controller Update

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As of yesterday, members of the Xbox Preview Program are now able to update their controllers to the latest firmware update, which adds several new improvements.