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12 Month PlayStation Memberships Have Never Been Cheaper

Shopto.net have dropped the asking price for a 12 Month Membership to just £27.85 which is currently the cheapest place to purchase 12 Months of PSN. Even if you currently have PSN, it is definitely worth picking it up for this price for when you do run out.

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New Xbox Live Avatars Arriving Later This Year

Xbox Live Avatars are getting a makeover for Xbox One and Windows 10, with an increased focus on customization and inclusiveness.

The new Avatar system will be available late 2017, Microsoft announced during Xbox Daily: Live @ E3. Bryan Saftler, lead project manager at Xbox, said the new Avatars are a "complete redesign" and are being built in the Unity engine, allowing for increased customization.

A look at the upcoming new Xbox Live Avatars. A look at the upcoming new Xbox Live Avatars.

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Nintendo on Switch VC: ‘We Recognize There’s an Appetite’

While Nintendo has yet to announce plans to bring Virtual Console to Switch, the company is well aware of the demand for legacy content on the console.

"We know that our fans, our players, want access to all of our digital content, we know that," Nintendo of America president and chief operating officer Reggie Fils-Aime told IGN when asked if the company is interested in bringing Virtual Console to Switch.

According to the Nintendo exec, the company is currently working on finding the best way to deliver its classic content to Switch owners. "What we're working through is, 'okay, what's going to be the best way to make that happen, to make that available?'" Fils-Aime said. "Certainly, we recognize there's an appetite for all of our great legacy content."

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Nintendo Working to Scale Up Switch Production

Nintendo knows it's not meeting Switch demand currently, but the company is working to improve the situation.

"What we are doing, as quickly as we can, is scaling up the production to make more available into the marketplace, to get to the point where every consumer who wants a Nintendo Switch can find a Nintendo Switch," Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America's president and chief operating officer told IGN in an interview at E3 2017.

"That’s what we’re trying to get to. I’m not going to tell you when we’ll get there, but our goal is to improve our supply chain so that more product is available to more consumers. And that is a key focus."

Nintendo sold over 900,000 Switch systems in March in the United States, followed by over 280,000 in April. Worldwide, Nintendo sold more than 2.74 million Switch consoles in its launch month, surpassing the company's original goal of 2 million.

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Sly Cooper Animated TV Series in the Works

A Sly Cooper animated TV series is in development.

Technicolor Animation Productions, the same studio behind the Sonic Boom TV show, has teamed up with Sony to work on the Sly Cooper TV adaptation. The series will follow Sly Cooper and his two best friends, the muscular hippo Murray and the intelligent turtle Bentley, as they steal and try to save Sly's city while being on the run from Inspector Carmelita Fox.

The show will also feature a few of Sly Cooper's villains and promises to retain the franchise's blend of action and humor. No release date for the show has been set yet and there are no details regarding the voice cast.

"There is no doubt that teenagers will be happy to rediscover their beloved game as a series, while younger kids will be charmed by the debonair raccoon and his exciting universe," said Sandrine Nguyen, Managing Director, Technicolor Animation Productions.

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Batman, Spider-Man Composer Danny Elfman to Score Justice League

Danny Elfman, the composer behind 1989 Batman and Spider-Man, is set to score Justice League.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Elfman has taken over for Junkie XL, who recently departed the project to work on Warner Bros.' Tomb Raider movie. This will be the first time Eflman composes music for Batman again since 1992's Batman Returns.

Along with the two Tim Burton Batman movies and the first Spider-Man film, Elfman has also scored the Men in Black trilogy, Spider-Man 2, 2003's Hulk, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Dick Tracy, and the 1990 The Flash TV series. Justice League will also see Elfman reunite with Joss Whedon, as the composer was brought in to add additional music for Avengers: Age of Ultron.

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Pikmin 4 ‘Progressing,’ Says Shigeru Miyamoto

Development on Pikmin 4 is still well underway, according to Shigeru Miyamoto.

In an interview with Eurogamer Miyamoto said that, even though he can't share any new details about the game, Pikmin 4 is "progressing." In a separate statement, Nintendo followed up on Miyamoto's comments, confirming "that Pikmin 4 is in development but that is all we can confirm at present."

The fourth installment in the series was first announced back in 2015, when Miyamoto revealed the game was "actually very close to completion" and that the "Pikmin teams are always working on the next one." A year later, Miyamoto revealed that Pikmin 4 fell down "a list of priorities" at Nintendo, which was why there have been little to no updates on the game since its announcement.

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Life is Strange: Before The Storm is For the Fans

Life is Strange: Before the Storm does not feature any supernatural powers. There will be no rewinding in Chloe Price’s 16-year-old life, no alternate realities or time-bending. This is not Life is Strange 2, which DontNod is quietly working on in Paris.

Instead, Before the Storm is a prequel developed by Colorado-based Deck Nine Games, and it’s focused on Chloe Price and her relationship with Rachel Amber. And relationships, says Deck Nine, are what fans loved from the original.

It’s certainly what I loved from the original, and what I’ve seen from Before the Storm, it’s going to offer all the wonderful angst that comes from close teenage friendships, or indeed, romantic relationships. Chloe and Rachel’s relationship was ambiguous in the original Life is Strange, which opened up a lot of options for exploring what it might have looked like in the prequel.

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Super Mario Odyssey: All Gameplay, News, Trailers

Nintendo first showed footage of Super Mario Odyssey back in October 2016. Assuming all goes according to plan, you’ll be able to play it on October 27, 2017.

In Super Mario Odyssey, Mario leaves the Mushroom Kingdom and visits all kinds of new places. Most strikingly, one of them looks very much like our world, complete with skyscrapers and humans who are much taller than the cartoonish plumber. Read on for everything we know so far about Super Mario Odyssey.

During Nintendo's E3 video presentation, we finally got  a release date for Super Mario Odyssey: October 27, 2017. We also got a new trailer that showed a ton of things we'd never seen before, including Mario throwing his hat on enemies and objects to inhabit them.

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