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Star Wars HQ discusses whether or not we will see Battlefront on last-gen consoles, plus DICE teases the Star Wars Battlefront beta.

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Monolith Productions' creative director Michael de Plater ran through a presentation on the topic of player-led narratives at this week's DICE Summit event. Discussing his company's work on the well-received Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and its clever ‘Nemesis System', de Plater revealed that the initial concept was inspired by multiplayer games and pro sports. ( Middle-earth: Shadow Of Mordor , PC [...] Via Shadow of Mordor's ‘Nemesis System' was inspired by pro sports

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Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida isn't a fan of annualized franchises. In fact, the PlayStation exec went so far as to say he "hates" them, when speaking at a panel during the DICE Summit.

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Dragon Age: Inquisition, last year's fantasy role-playing epic developed by the folks at BioWare, was awarded Game of the Year by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences at the 18th annual DICE Awards.

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Shadow of Mordor wins pretty much everything else.
Dragon Age: Inquisition is a vast game filled with some great characters, some lovely environments, some funny and thoughtful writing, and a lot of fetch quests, and it's been rewarded for all that (well, maybe not the fetch quests) with a DICE Summit Game of the Year award.

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BioWare's RPG takes the top honor.

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Sony Computer Entertainment boss Shuhei Yoshida spoke about a wide range of topics at the 2015 DICE summit, including where the company got its name.

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Last year, WB Games studio Monolith had an unexpected hit with the release of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. It's a superb game overall, but it was the game's Nemesis system, and its ability to facilitate player-driven story and narrative, that really made the game standout from the typical triple-A relase. Michael de Plater, design director on the game, gave a quick run-down of the system at the DICE Summit in Las Vegas.

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Last year, WB Games studio Monolith had an unexpected hit with the release of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. It's a superb game overall, but it was the game's Nemesis system, and its ability to facilitate player-driven story and narrative, that really made the game standout from the typical triple-A relase. Michael de Plater, design director on the game, gave a quick run-down of the system at the DICE Summit in Las Vegas.