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BOOM! Deals! News! Releases! The Rundown! We talk about Minecraft: Education Edition, plus fan-made rebuilds of classic games. Plus, ESPN has launched an eSports branch, which is just bound to confuse basement dwellers everywhere!

NOTEWORTHY DEALS

XBL Games for Gold for January (link)
- XB1: Killer Instinct Season 1 Ultra edition
- XB1: Zheros
- 360: Dirt Showdown
- 360: Deus Ex: Human Revolution
PSPlus Games for January (link)
- Dragon Age: Origins , PS3
- Grim Fandango Remastered , PS4, PS Vita
- Hardware: Rivals , PS4
- Legends of War Patton , PS Vita
- Medal of Honor Warfighter , PS3
- Nihilumbra, PS Vita
Humble Bundle (link)
BundleStars (link)
http://www.cheapshark.com – an aggregate for PC digital game discounts across various sites

NEWS TICKER

MS/Mojang have announced Minecraft: Education Edition, launching this summer (link) (video)
- Based on MinecraftEdu mod, which MS has acquired.
- Will be $5 per user for Libraries, Schools, etc
- Boosted 40 person multiplayer
RETRO ROUND-UP
- Fans rebuilding Metal Gears Solid for PC using Unreal Engine 4 (link) Trailer (link) (video)
- Fans also rebuilding Goldeneye 64 in Unreal Engine 4 (link) (video)
Releases
- Out This Week (video)
- A Boy and His Blob — PS4, Xbox One Digital, PC
- Baseball Riot— PS4, Vita Digital (Cross Buy)
- Dark Cloud 2 — PS2 Classic for PS4
- Resident Evil 0 — PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One Digital, PC
- Resident Evil Origins Collections — PS4
- Tachyon Project— PS4 Digital
- Life Is Strange — PS4, Xbox One Retail
- Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak — PC
Out Next Week (video – the witness)
- LEGO Marvel’s Avengers — PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, 3DS, Wii U, Vita
- Nitroplus Blasterz Heroines Infinite Duel — PS4
- Saturday Morning RPG — PS4, Vita Digital (Cross Buy)
- The Witness — PS4 Digital, PC
- Rise of the Tomb Raider — PC

THE RUNDOWN

Youtuber Cosmic Contrarian melted faces with a 20,000 troop war in Fallout 4. Things get nuts. (link)
Former U.S. Marine and game developer Amir Hekmati has been released from an Iranian prison after FOUR YEARS of captivity for accusations of propaganda while working on a language retention program indirectly for the U.S. DoD. (link)
More TMNT: Mutants in Manhattan screens leak from the Australian ratings submission because, well, everything leaks from their Australian ratings submissions. (link) (image)
ARK: Survival Evolved on Xbox One getting a hundred more servers to handle the crippling load. (link) (video)
SHOCKING: Mario Maker stages are being removed by Nintendo, and Nintendo isn’t bothering to tell anyone why. (link) (video)
DOOM co-creator John Romero just released a DOOM level – 21 years later. (link) (video)
Raspberry Pi Zero allows users with access to a 3d printer stuff a Nintendo emulator into a NES controller (link) (image)
CS: GO pro team Titan has “capsized” after member was banned for cheating. (link) (image)
ESPN has launched ESPN Esports. All that is nerd is now bro. (link)
All these years laters, SPOTUS will hear Microsoft’s appeal over the 360 eating discs like an optical media Cookie Monster (link)
Xbox One users will get background music… eventually… but like, not before summer (link)
Amazon Prime now offering 20% off new games for members! (link)
DICE Awards nominations are out with Rise of the Tomb Raider and The Witcher 3 leading with eight nominations each. (link) (image)
Rockstar North president Leslie Benzies, lead designer on the GTA series from GTA3 on, took a year long sabbatical and then just decided not to come back. (link)
Psychonauts still just won’t die, and is coming to PS4 this spring (link) (image)
Half-Life writer Marc Laidlaw has said sayonara to Valve after 18 years (link)