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hey everyone i'm steve from gamers nexus dotnet and this is your weekly game news recap black desert Online has the most in-depth character creator ever made for a game from what we've seen and that's a fact that's probably been used for more evil than good at this point early adopters of black deserts freshly released free MMO character creator have modeled some of the most genuinely hideous characters we've ever seen from the hilariously grotesque to physically improbable the toolkit is fully capable of graphically stunning rule-breaking creations black desert online is the korean mo that you've probably all heard of at this point at least in passing but it's finally nearing completion developers pearl abyss are working with publisher down games to leverage the games early attention offering up the character creator for free download to start more interest the game's release date is vaguely set for the first quarter of 2016 but we've already been given our first quest and that's in the form of downs Beauty and the Beast contest using the BDO character creator players are tasked with submitting the most out-of-this-world creations they can fathom to the black desert forums everyone gets a participation prize and a few top winners get extras minecraft is back in the news it's been a while now since the blocky game dominated the news cycle I think our last major story was probably about Microsoft's two billion dollar acquisition of Mo Jane and notches departure from the industry at least temporarily this week Microsoft's fronted its initial plan for the investment and it's called minecraft education edition Microsoft's recognized that minecraft connects with kids in a fashion that is often educational leading mo Jane to acquire the Finnish mod minecraft edu for further development microsoft aims to monetize education edition at the enterprise level selling directly to schools and instructors as a means to engage students more actively minecraft education Edition will be free through the summer and on limited trial license but will require full license purchases after that if you're an educator you can learn more at education minecraft net Epic Games mysterious new game has finally received some information of substance the first teasers didn't even tell us what genre the game would be any thing of its gameplay or anything other than the name which is Paragon by the way since then we've learned that Paragon is a MOBA with a new element of verticality switching up gameplay mechanics from the standard top-down arena format in a substantial way a new trailer emerge for Paragon last week entitled mid lane push when we see the high fidelity heroes engage in routine Lane combat the game's most profound statement is made simply in its graphics propagated by the use of Unreal Engine 4 and will make Paragon one of the most visually intense mobiles to date if not the most visually intense MOBA to date some limited gameplay and encounters can be seen with most of epic cinematic efforts focusing our eyes toward the vertical positioning of characters we're still waiting for more information to emerge but it's already known that Paragon is presently in alpha and that the game is targeting a release sometime early in 2016 our next story relates to oculus rift founder Palmer Luckey who's been embroiled in legal battles with Total Recall technologies and has been accused by Xenia max of stealing trade secrets on the 16th it was ruled that the Total Recall lawsuit against lucky could proceed though a judge did dismiss several additional claims against lucky the part of the lawsuit which has been permitted to continue relates to a breach of contract with Total Recall technologies who allege that oculus founder Palmer Luckey broke his contractual agreement by allegedly using trade secrets to develop his Kickstarter for oculus in response to this lucky stated that the Total Recall lawsuit is quote a brazen attempt to secure for itself a stake in oculus vr s recent multi-billion dollar acquisition by Facebook the case will continue in the Northern District of California finally humble bundles winter sales have continued into January unlike steams winter sale the humble store is rotating deals in and out every three days offering a build-your-own bundle option for users there's also a humble Firaxis bundle right now offering XCOM sid meier's pirates civilization 3 and ace patrol all for one dollar civ four and five are offered to anyone who currently anyway pays more than ten dollars that's it for this week's game news recap if you like this type of coverage check us out on patreon.com / gamers an access to help us directly or just visit gamers Nexus dotnet three the latest content and thank you for watching I'll see you all next time