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Rocket League unleashed two new arenas yesterday: Neo Tokyo (for regular play) and Pillars (for Rocket Labs).

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Neo Tokyo feels like one of the Rocket Labs arenas with two tiers to the playing field, making it mandatory to time your shots and blocks perfectly if you want to succeed. There's a countdown (in Japanese) at the start of each game, and your team's score is always on display above your net. Outside of the arena is a futuristic depiction of Tokyo, with train tracks and skyscrapers galore. There's constant noise, too. Lovely design but frustrating to play.

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Pillars is probably my favorite arena yet. It's a circular map with two pillars in the middle. Your starting positions are greatly impacted by them, with increased potential for face-off goals if you know how to angle shots. Defense and offense are both such a breeze with this set-up that you're going to see plenty of high-scoring games.

In addition to the new arenas and cars, the results screen has been modified into something better. Not only do you get the standard screen (showing each team and their individual statistics), but you also get a brief presentation of the winning team and alternative individual scores. This includes rewards like Striker (for most shots on goal/scores), Enforcer (for most opposing cars bumped into), and others.

Here's a video from YouTube user Gibbs (username iBP Gibbs) where he plays both new arenas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOZXlo8L9Fw

Four new cars are also being released with the physical copy of the game and won't be downloadable until July 18. Two have been confirmed (below, Masamune and Esper), but two more are still unknown right now*. There's some speculation as to whether or not there is going to be any more famous cars added to the roster, as the DeLorean (Back to the Future) and the new Batmobile (Batman Vs. Superman) are available for DLC.
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*UPDATE: I found this image of two other new Rocket League cars, returning from SARPBC (of which Rocket League is a sequel).
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Shovel Knight has a new, free campaign for Spectre Knight on the way. Then King Knight after that. Also a Body Swap mode, and a multi-player Battle Mode. And they're doing a limited run of a physical Vita version.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/yachtclubgames/shovel-knight/posts/1610029
 

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Just snagged this figure for $13.96 a month early at my Barnes & Noble (despite it being technically an Amazon.com exclusive on Guardians of Harmony) thanks to our store's Pop Culture week going on. It looks pretty badass as a full figure.

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Sonic Mania and Sonic Generations 2 were announced tonight!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxmtYdEWVzo

Mania looks like a great throwback game.
 

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Sooooo.... anyone playing the beta of The Elder Scrolls Legends? Pretty good game so far with what I've played, the lane mechanic seems kinda kitschy but otherwise I'm having a blast playing it.
 

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lirl why would you do this to yourselves? http://kotaku.com/thq-is-back-from-the-dead-sort-of-1785205582

Nordic, a game publisher based in Austria, has had their hands in retail deals and ports for various games including Ori and the Blind Forest and Broken Age. They purchased a number of game properties like Darksiders and Red Faction during the big THQ auction in 2013. They also bought the THQ trademark, which they’ve now decided to embrace wholeheartedly, officially changing their name from Nordic Games to THQ Nordic.
 

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They pretty much own all of THQ's assets, so they might as well be THQ.

Also, what the fuck Konami. Seriously, wtf.
 

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The next Rocket League update will be out September 8th. Some big things it will include:
  • Rumble mode with 11 weapon/power-up items
  • Beta versions for Mac and SteamOS
  • Crate drop and key purchase system, ostensibly to help fund RL eSports events and prize pools—$1.49 each key, or $5 for 5
  • Player-to-player item trading
  • Saving up to 10 "Car Preset" item loadouts, including different ones for blue or orange teams
  • Custom team names and colours in private matches
  • Rocket Labs "Octagon" map, and 2 new weather variant maps
  • Party chat
http://www.rocketleaguegame.com/news/2016/09/rumble-update/
http://www.rocketleaguegame.com/game-info/rumble/
 

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There's an update for Forza 6: Apex for Windows 10. They've left "beta", and added support for several wheel controllers.

http://news.xbox.com/2016/09/06/forza-motorsport-6-apex-comes-beta-wheel-support/
 

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http://store.steampowered.com/news/24155/

User reviews on Steam have some new options, including separating reviews from Steam purchasers, or key activations. The default is to only show Steam purchasers, and the aggregate recommended percentage scores only include Steam purchasers.

The goal is supposedly to reduce abuse from developers/publishers who'll give away Steam keys, or pay people, or create alternate accounts for positive reviews. Though this also restricts people who buy from physical retail; digital stores like Amazon, Humble, Bundle Stars, etc.; Kickstarter or other crowd-funding sites​​.
 

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South Park: The Fractured But Whole was delayed from Dec 6 to Q1 2017.
http://blog.ubi.com/south-park-fractured-whole-update/

The BioShock remasters should be available now on Steam—free to anyone who owns the originals. Infinite and DLC did not get remastered for PC.
http://store.steampowered.com/bundle/1417/
 

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Steam user reviews have been changed back, to show all text reviews by default—including key activations. Aggregate scores will still only be for Steam store buyers.

http://store.steampowered.com/news/24331/
 

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Mirror's Edge, The Saboteur, and Spore are all for sale on GOG.

Really strange thinking back to the initial disc releases of these, when they came with SecuROM DRM, and 5 activations, ever. I took a screenshot of EA's website back in 2009: "EA SecuROM Wall of Shame.bmp"

I can remember lamenting that I wouldn't be able to play those games on PC, because I wouldn't buy anything that restrictive. Back when a disc release had a sense of permanence; not long removed from games like Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory being similarly "ruined" by StarForce DRM.

The first BioShock was one of the most prominent initial releases to include the same DRM, and it's a Humble Store Steam + DRM-free game now. Not to mention the whole remastered and re-released thing.
 

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There's a new update for the Steam version of Street Fighter V that creates some pretty serious vulnerabilities in Windows. Some people are calling it a rootkit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/545cjy/sfvs_new_pc_update_is_accessing_kernel_level_in/
 

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Assuming Destiny 2 won’t let players carry over their old characters, Bungie will likely offer something to players who have poured hundreds of hours into the first game. (Last I heard, Bungie has not yet finalized these decisions.)

Hmmmm..

http://venturebeat.com/2014/12/08/destiny-2-characters-carry-over/
 
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