SteamWorld Heist Release Date Announced

SteamWorld Heist will be launching on 3DS in the Americas, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand on December 10.

The Japanese version will be coming later, and it will also be coming to all other current platforms at a later date.

As for the price, it will normally be $20 / €20 / £15, however from launch until December 31, it will be on sale for $17 / €17 / £12.

There will also be an exclusive Nintendo 3DS Home Menu theme available with every purchase from December 10 - 31.

If you want to know more, check out IGN's preview of SteamWorld Heist from earlier this year.

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Riot Outlines League of Legends Snowdown Event

Snowdown is League of Legends' winter event, and it's starting on December 10.

Riot has outlined what we can expect from this year's event. First of all we'll see some new Snow Day skins, as well as the return of some old ones. You'll be able to pick up Snow Day Syndra, Gnar, Bard, Malzahar, Singed and Ziggs for 975 Riot Points. You'll also be able to get cute new Summoner Icons and Ward Skins.

As for the actual game, all through Snowdown the minions will be sliding into lane with cold weather gear on.

We'll also be seeing the return of The Legend of the Poro King. In this game mode you have two Poro friends flanking you, granting you a summoner spell that will help you summon the Poro King. Once summoned, this super minion will heal your team, regenerate mana, and deal area of effect damage to enemies.

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Capcom Registers Onimusha Trademark in Japan

New trademarks from a number of Japanese publishers have emerged.

Most notably, according to Hokanko (with a translation from Gematsu), Capcom has registered "Onimusha," sparking rumors of a new game, or perhaps a remaster of an existing game in the action-adventure series.

The last game in the series was Onimusha Soul, a browser game released in 2012 and ported to PS3 in 2014. However the last full console release was back in 2006 with Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams.

In other news, Kadokawa Games has trademarked "Novel 0," Sega has trademarked "Nurikeshi," and Konami has trademarked "Duel Links."

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Sony’s 12 Deals of Christmas Sees 50 Percent off MGS5

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is 50 percent off in the first of Sony’s 12 Deals of Christmas sale event.

The reduction brings MGS V’s price down to £30 here in the UK. It’s worth remembering, the 12 Deals of Christmas deals only last two days, so in 48 hours expect a different game, and for MGS V to rocket back up to full price.

If you plan on picking up The Phantom Pain, it’s probably best to lay off the nukes for the time being. Currently, the MGS community is hard at work attempting to unlock the Nuclear Disarmament secret ending, in which every player per region needs to have nuclear-free bases.

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Nintendo Account Rolls Out Across Japan

Nintendo has launched Nintendo Account across Japan.

The new service acts as a single log-in for all current and future Nintendo platforms, including the upcoming Nintendo NX.

If you have a Nintendo Network ID (NNID) signed up with a Japanese Wii U or 3DS, you can head on over to the newly launched website and register now, or register via your favourite social media platform. Nintendo Account will encompass your NNID, and link in with Facebook, Google Plus, and Twitter.

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Pokken Tournament Character Reveals Coming Next Week

New characters for Pokken Tournament will be unveiled next Thursday, December 10.

According to a post on the game's official Twitter account (via GoNintendo), another playable fighter and a new support character will be joining the fray in Bandai Namco's Pokémon-centric fighting game.

Star Trek Into Darkness’ Writer Admits Khan Twist Was a ‘Mistake’

Remember how before Star Trek Into Darkness came out everybody knew Benedict Cumberbatch was playing Khan but the filmmakers refused to admit it? The film's screenwriter Damon Lindelof does, and he regrets the secrecy.

"When we did Star Trek Into Darkness for example, we decided that we weren’t going to tell people that Benedict Cumberbatch was playing Khan" Lindelof told Variety. "And that was a mistake, because the audience was like, “We know he’s playing Khan.” That was why it was a mistake. But J.J.

is telling us nothing about the new Star Wars movie and we love it. I’ve not come across a single person who’s like, “I wish I knew a little bit more.” We are like, ‘Thank God he’s protecting us from all the things that will be revealed in the movie theater.”

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Abrams: Showing Disney Force Awakens Was ‘Horrifying’

Star Wars: The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams has revealed what it was like screening his upcoming film for the executives at Disney, calling it a "horrifying" experience.

On the latest episode of The Howard Stern Show (via Entertainment Weekly), Abrams admitted he was "nervous beyond words" before showing the studio an early cut of the film.

"We showed the first cut — which was still incomplete, a complete version of the movie but not the finished version — and we showed it to Alan Horn and Bob Iger and Alan Bergman, the three people at Disney who sat with me in the theater, and we screened the movie. And it was horrifying," he said.

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Tank Girl’s Lori Petty Joins Gotham Cast

Lori Petty will appear in episode 214 of Fox’s Gotham.

Variety reports that the actress, who also stars in Orange is the New Black, will play Jeri—"the flamboyant and enigmatic hostess of an underground club where mass murder and art are celebrated in equal measure." Jeri helps Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz) in his search for his parents’ killer, but is "less helpful when Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie) comes calling."

The isn't Lori Petty's first comic book role. She starred in the '90s comic book-inspired movie, Tank Girl—which we've written is a "faithful adaptation of the alt-comics that spawned it."

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