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what's up Internet Kevin here with your weekly serving in the gaming news this past week we've got a couple of different game announcements as well as further confirmed titles and a little bit interesting news regarding what Microsoft currently has planned for its future as a whole company and for its Xbox division in particular but to begin with let's talk about some of the actual game announcements we've seen this past week to start with on this past Sunday which was the last day of the fighting game tournament evolution 2014 Cup tahira Harada announced the seventh main installment of the Tekken franchise while no actual release date or even released quarter has been given yet it does look as though the game's going to be getting and our kid release first followed by home console versions later and will be built using Unreal Engine 4 now on the related topic of fighting games on the following morning on Monday super smash brothers for Wii U and 3ds announced three more characters confirming the return of Captain Falcon as well as introducing two new characters from the Fire Emblem franchise Robin and Lucena counting all the me fighters as one this brings the full announced roster thus far to 36 making this now the largest Super Smash Brothers roster compared to brawls 35 and it may still not be finished yet we're still missing a few series favorites and veterans most particularly Ness and given the frequency of how often we've been getting these character announcements it's actually very likely we'll see at least one or even two more until the 3ds version gets released on October 3rd with the most likely time coming up being Comic Con later this month where Nintendo will be hosting a Super Smash Brothers for 3ds tournament now as far as other game announcements from this past week go Tecmo Koei's Nintendo got together to announce and reveal a new trailer for the next fatal prim game which is planned for the Wii U whose title loosely translates to fatal frame the black haired shrine maiden this is the fifth game in the Fatal Frame series the first three were on the ps2 with the fourth one coming out on the Wii although that one was restricted only to Japan and it's not clear yet whether or not the fifth one is going to follow that trend we just know that the fifth one is currently planned for a Japanese exclusive release date of September 27th now last but not least this weekend has been QuakeCon and during it a new gameplay trailer was released that is currently exclusive just a QuakeCon we're not seeing any internet coverage of it just yet for a game that has been stuck in dev hell for years doom 4 which is now retitled simply as doom this one does look to be a full reboot of the doom franchise which does actually make a lot of sense considering how long it's been since doom three and how many times it's changed owners hands now obviously I haven't seen the actual gameplay trailer this was exclusive just a quakecon attendees but as far as the news coming out and what people have been saying it looks as though those new games going to have a much heavier emphasis just on fast paced combat and really getting back to FPS roots with an emphasis on outlandish monsters outlandish weapons and no more regenerating health we haven't got an exact release date or quarter for this game yet as well but it has been announced that it will be made available on Xbox one ps4 and of course PC now with all that aside one of the biggest pieces of news to come out of gaming industry this past week in terms of business is that Microsoft is having a lot of cutbacks and layoffs this was originally reported after an email was sent out by the current Microsoft CEO announcing plans to have major layoffs across the entire company numbering as high as 18,000 although the majority of those are coming from its Nokia division which is looking to have about 12,500 jobs cut over the next year Microsoft has made it clear that they plan to support the Xbox division and have a lot of big plans for it in the future but that doesn't make it an exception from these planned cuts in fact we're already getting a lot of reports that a lot of different studios are either shutting down in the near future or already suffering major layoffs of these it's been reported that there's been a lot of job cuts over at the Xbox EMEA team which includes a lot of their operations over in Europe the Middle East and Asia as well as the soon shutdown of the Xbox entertainment division this is the same group that Microsoft placed a lot of emphasis on to e3 s ago when they were announcing a lot of original television content exclusive for Xbox Live it looks as though the reason for part of this decision is due to the fact that Microsoft wants all of its different divisions to focus more heavily on their core content rather than having more extensive side programs as a result the Xbox division is now going to focus a lot more on just games rather than trying to make the Xbox one the be-all end-all entertainment system it was originally pitched as now obviously not all cuts and layoffs are happening right this moment there might be more announced as the year goes on so it'll be interesting to see what happens to the Xbox division as time goes by so that was just a quick look at some of the gaming news to come out this past week what games have been announced and a little bit on the gaming industry I'll be seeing you guys next weekend with another update now until then I do have some more reviews plan to come up in the next week including metric 2015 Duels of the Planeswalkers and divinity original sin to make sure you guys don't miss those videos hit that subscribe button so you stay up to date and while you're at it if you like this video hit that thumbs up button let me know it's always appreciated you guys can also follow me on twitter at Kevin Kenton where you can hear my update thoughts or what games I'm currently playing and find out what videos I'm currently working on and what channel I'm going to upload them to I hope to see you guys soon with those reviews but until then I'm Kevin Kenson and I'll see you later