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Weekly Recap

Here’s a roundup of the week’s biggest stories and some you might have missed.

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Movin’ Up

Take-Two reported earnings this week, and included in the announcement was news that Grand Theft Auto V has now shipped an incredible 60 million copies. [Full story]

Battalion 1944

Old is new again with Battalion 1944, a new World War 2 video game for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC announced this week. The multiplayer game was successfully funded on Kickstarter in just a few days and is due to launch in May 2017. [Full story]

Easy to Hack

The Division’s PC beta was apparently easy to hack. Players found they could make use of a number of exploits including altering statistics to grant players unlimited health and ammo, super-speed, critical hit chance, no recoil, and unlimited medical kits. Ubisoft is aware of the issues and has promised a “solution” for the game’s full release in March. [Full story]

Patched Up

A new Fallout 4 patch arrived this week on PC. The update, 1.3, included lots of bug fixes and even introduced some new debris effects exclusively for the PC version. [Full story]

Bungie Wants Some Answers

Bungie this week apparently sent out a survey to lapsed Destiny players asking them why they stopped playing. Some of the response options for “Why haven’t you been playing Destiny lately?” include things like “I don’t have any one to play with,” “I’ve run out of things to do,” and “I don’t like PvP,” among a handful of others. [Full story]

Bowling Bling

Grand Theft Auto and Drake are together at last. Here’s an excellent fan-made video that parodies Drake’s “Hotline Bling” using Grand Theft Auto IV. Well done.

Fortnite’s Next Character

In the lead-up to launch, Epic Games has announced another new character for Fortnite: the female constructor. You can see the character model and get more details on the latest patch here.

Bill

Did you know that Bill Gates, in the early days of Microsoft, used to memorize employees’ license plate numbers so he could monitor their work patterns? He totally did, he tells BBC in a new interview.

Mighty Trophies

Ahead of Mighty No. 9’s launch later this month, the game’s PS4 Trophies have emerged, courtesy of Exophase.

Amazing

The Witness is a darn challenging game, which makes this 25-minute speedrun tough to even comprehend. Check it out here.

Splat!

Is a new Splatoon Amiibo on the way? It sure looks like it, according to evidence dug up this week by IGN.

No Good

Martin Shkreli, the disgraced big pharma exec who raised the price of a life-saving drug and was later arrested, was also a part owner of an eSports team. He apparently owes his former players some money, according to this report from The Daily Dot.

Snowfall

The next expansion for Cities Skylines, Snowfall, will launch on February 18, Paradox Interactive has announced. Read more about it here.

Super Deal for the Super Bowl

It’s Super Bowl week! As such, EA has released its annual Super Bowl edition of the latest Madden game. You can get the full game for less than $20 now on PS4 and Xbox One. Find links here.

Fallout 4 GDC Panel

There will be a Fallout 4 panel at the Game Developers Conference this year, event organizers have announced. During it, Bethesda’s Todd Howard will talk about modular level design and more. You can see all the details on the panel here.

Merger?

Two of the biggest toy companies on the planet, Mattel and Hasbro, are reportedly in talks for a merger. It sounds like early days, but can you imagine? Transformers and Barbie under one roof. Get the full story here at Bloomberg.

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

Microsoft recently rolled out a series of improvements for Halo 5: Guardians matchmaking. You might have though it was already very good, but now it’s apparently even better. Get all the details here.

6 Million

The Super Mario Maker community is keeping busy. Nintendo announced this week that players have so far uploaded more than 6 million courses. Impressive!

Nightmare Cake

To celebrate XCOM 2’s release this week, 2K UK apparently commissioned some cake-making expert to build a cake that looks like one of the aliens in the strategy game. I am equal parts hungry, disturbed, and impressed. You can get a closer look at the cake here.