Thursday Gaming News – 17/10/13

October 17, 2013

  • With Halloween only a few weeks away developers are busting out their themed DLC. As mentioned yesterday, Dead Or Alive 5 Ultimate  and League of Legends will both be launching additional skins, and Borderlands 2 is launching Headhunter 1: TK Baha’s Bloody Harvest bonus mission.
  • Creator of the Grand Theft Auto series, Michael Dailly, is remaking the original game in 3D to show off his new development engine. It won’t be released to the public but you can follow the program on his Twitter feed.
  • As if making a game in a short period of time isn’t hard enough, creators of Train Jam are challenging participants to do it in 52 hours, ON A TRAIN, between Chicago and San Francisco, arriving in time for the San Francisco Game Developers conference.
  •  Microsoft has outlined the online capabilities of the Xbox One, including  including dedicated servers for multiplayer games, and full system information being stored on the cloud.
  • Nintendo are advertising the 2DS by reminding us what a good range of games there are  available.

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