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what's up Internet Kevin here now as part of this new channel I want to start bringing you guys more content other than just game reviews and first day impressions and as part of that I'm gonna start bringing you guys weekly Sunday news videos where I just cover the highlights of all the major gaming news that has come out this past week and maybe throw in my two cents about it so first things first there is this little event coming up in a couple of days some of you may have heard of III and as part of that a lot of companies seem like they just can't wait under releasing a lot of III trailers really early this past week some of them are for games that we already know about and are just seeing new footage of but some of them are for brand new games and now these brand new games one of the biggest ones by far was the announcement of a new Mortal Kombat game Mortal Kombat X whose trailer depicts everyone's favorite color-coded ninjas fighting one-on-one with of course the series traditional gruesome finish now this looks to be a full reboot of the Mortal Kombat franchise not just time-travel shenanigans like an MK 9 NetherRealm Studios has stated that this reboot will feature both classic characters that we all know and love as well as a bunch of new ones as well including some returning mechanics from MK 9 such as X ray attacks now MK 9 was already a great breath of fresh air into the series and really brought it back up into Fame and hopefully with new characters and enough of the right mechanics being brought back this one could continue that upswing now in addition to MK X there were a lot of trailers for games we already knew about this past week including Borderlands the pre-sequel Lord of the Rings shadows of Mordor Kingdom Hearts 2.5 remix and The Witcher 3 now speaking of The Witcher 3 its developer CD Projekt RED had one other announcement to bring us during the press conference their storefront website GOG is now going to get its own platform akin to steam called GOG calm galaxy galaxy is meant to be a way for users to purchase organize and keep their favorite games updated isn't in direct competition with applications like Steam origin and you play but with the important distinction that it has a much higher emphasis on consumer freedom just like with GOG any games you purchased through galaxy will be 100% drm free and any additional functions or features that galaxy has to offer will be completely optional for instance if you want to be able to chat with other users you can make an account so that you have an account name to talk to people with or you could choose not to do so and just focus on playing your favorite single-player games now in addition to this they've also talked up that it'll have the ability to support cross play meaning that if you buy game on galaxy and your best friend buys it on Steam you both can still play together and chat together without the need of a third party program the introduction of a drm-free platform like this might finally give steam the competition that it needs and it's my personal hope that if galaxy does get a lot more popularity that also helped rekindle a lot more interest in older classic games that are harder to find elsewhere that you can find on GOG now this last bit of news I want to cover is in regards to the Xbox one it's become pretty popular opinion that at least as far as this past year goes ps4 has basically been winning at a console war especially considering recent news that Sony has sold more units in this past fiscal year than Nintendo or Microsoft but these past couple of weeks Microsoft has been coming out with a lot of news that has really helped to improve their position including things like no longer requiring Xbox Live Gold for using a third-party services like Netflix or Hulu or finally releasing an Xbox one coming out and tomorrow that is not going to require a Kinect and doesn't include one to begin with well as a direct result of that last piece of news Microsoft announced earlier this week that its dev kit will now allow developers to make use of GPU resources that used to be dedicated just for Kinect integration now of course this is up to individual developers but what this means is that hopefully future titles on the Xbox one especially those that don't make any use of the Kinect will now have better graphics than they would have otherwise now of course there's no hard data on the suggests yet but Microsoft estimates the games could see as much as a 10% boost in performance meaning that could look a lot better and hopefully shorten the gap we've been seeing in a lot of multi-platform games between ps4 and Xbox one such as in Metal Gear Solid 5 Ground zeroes or in watchdogs so that was just a little look at some of the biggest news to come out this past week III is just in another couple of days so there's a lot more information coming out soon and in fact I plan to bring you guys actual full reviews of the different press releases happening in the first couple of days and let you know my thoughts on them if you guys don't want to miss those videos please make sure to subscribe and if you enjoyed this video please make sure hit that thumbs up button as well you guys can also follow me on my personal Twitter at Kevin consumer you can hear my up-to-date thoughts and games I'm playing or announcements at e3 as well as find out what videos I'm uploading to what channels when now guys thank you so much for watching this video I hope to see you guys later this week and until then I'm Kevin Henson and I'll see you later