Rockstar have been a bit shy with GTA V news recently and have also decided not to make an appearance at E3 or most recently the Microsoft Event. But what they have recently announced more than makes up for it, Rockstar have finally announced the Special and Collector's edition of the game.

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Need for Speed Rivals, an action/racing game created by EA's newest development team over at Ghost Games studio. Using a meaty new engine to deliver next-generation gameplay, Ghost Games studio have much needed innovation on their minds as they tackle the prestigious Need for Speed franchise.

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Crytek has officially announced that their CryEngine 3 technology is equipped to start creating software for the system now, sounds promising as Crytek are responsible for some insanely impressive looking games. Crytek also recently became an official provider of middleware and tools for the new Xbox One and will support the platform was well as equipping CryEngine 3 licenses with the advanced toolset required to achieve their own games for the system.

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Last week at the Stifel Nicolaus 2013 Internet, Media and Communications Conference, EA spoke out about developing games for the Wii U, stating that "We are building titles for the Nintendo consoles" but does that mean the Wii U or 3DS? Most likely the Wii U, but which games are they?

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Official Twitter and Facebook accounts of DICE, the brains behind the Battlefield franchise, have said that "Big announcements are coming soon! Retweet to alert your friends #BF4" and "Big announcements are coming soon - Don't miss a single thing!" on Facebook. What news could it be? Official next-gen Battlefield 4? Battlefield footage at Microsoft's event?

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Activision and Treyarch are playing nice this weekend and allowing everyone to play the latest Revolution DLC for absolutely free this coming weekend, in fact it is free to play from Friday 24th May until Tuesday 28th May but no word of double XP (bit much to ask?). The new micro-transactions will come in the form of four new gun-skins, themed reticules and calling cards. They will work on a vote system, where CoD fans can vote for their favourite and the two with the highest votes will me made available to buy.

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Ubisoft has released a new trailer for the upcoming Splinter Cell: Blacklist depicting Sam Fisher and his +1 (Isaac Briggs) in the game's 2 player co-op mode. The co-op mode in the previous Splinter Cell: Conviction was just as fun and immersing as the single player campaign and the latest installment looks to build on it's predecessor's strong points and gives us a named co-op character.

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I'd like to take a few moments to welcome our newest member into Digital Gathering, for the past month he has been settling into DG and you may have already read some of his work on the site, I refer to of course our new Editor-in-Chief Kong-Wai Wong.

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Good news for Battlefield players, DICE has announced that the Double XP will start on 23^rd May and rung through to 27^th May. This announcement follows issues that DICE has recently had with their servers due to a cyber-attack that initially delayed the Double XP event.

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A Paintball arena in East Dundee, Illinois called ‘Paintball Explosion” has recreated the Nuketown multiplayer map from Black Ops 2 and it is pretty damn impressive and can’t believe this hasn’t been done before already. Imagine the amount of Call of Duty fans that would want to re-live their online multiplayer moments in real-life paintball action, especially if Activision got involved in the project.

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