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For the next few days we're going to be posting daily roundups of the news coming out of Gamescom, just like we did at E3. Unlike E3, we're going to be a bit lighter on breathless mega-news: Gamescom, though a bigger show, never has the range of megatons that LA manages (although this didn't stop the ESA from pushing out an infographic yesterday about how, actually, it's the best. Insecurity always a good look, chaps.)That said, Microsoft did a pretty good job with its opening conference: we got the promised look at Crackdown 3, which looks like a more comprehensively destructible Red Faction Guerrilla and thus is fine by us, and Platinum's Scalebound, which looks like a cross between Monster Hunter and, inexplicably, 1990s cyber-film Hackers. Punchable protagonist aside, one to watch, as is the actually-not-obviously-dreadful TV series of Remedy's Quantum Break. It's got real actors in it and everything, as does the game itself, which is a third-person shooter with nice lighting and fancy temporal effects because it's from Remedy.
Littlefinger from Game of Thrones is in Quantum Break. Hope he picks an accent and sticks with it this time.
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