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The bright white face masks of We Happy Few turned heads on the PAX East show floor this year with their sinister gaze and art style. If you played Contrast, you will immediately recognize Compulsion Games’ handiwork. We Happy Few‘s characters wear a look that says, “Be happy, or else.” And that’s what the game is about.

Creative Director Guillaume Provost explained that We Happy Few explores a dystopian alternate history that takes place 20 years after the Nazis won World War II. How might have Hitler’s ideological fantasies manifested themselves over time? What would daily life be like? What would happen if you tried to resist?

It’s these open questions that the team at Compulsion Games put a lot of thought into. They came up with a world in which the government engineered a utopia where every single person is required to be blissfully happy — no exceptions. To accomplish this, the government keeps everybody drugged so that they will never need to worry about anything at all, not even worry itself. Everybody must be happy, and everybody must conform.

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Tickets for MineCon 2015 are going on sale today. Tickets will be sold in two waves; the first 5,000 tickets will go on sale today (March 27) at 6pm …
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For the month of April the Xbox team has decided to celebrate the fact that over 100 million games have been downloaded through the program and over five billion …
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Two and a half years after it was first announced for an Xbox platform, Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty will finally release tomorrow, March 27, publisher Oddworld Inhabitants, Inc. has …
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Game of Thrones Episode 3: The Sword in the Darkness was developed and published on Xbox One and Xbox 360 by Telltale Games. It was released March 25, 2015 for $4.99. A copy was provided by Telltale for review purposes.

Where Episode 1 and Episode 2 of Telltale Games’ Game of Thrones adaptation gave us a slow but intriguing insight into what the series might have in store for us, Episode 3: The Sword in the Darkness is somewhat lacking in the same kind of peril, intrigue and action that fans of the epic novels have come to expect.

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The third entry of Telltale Games’ six-part Game of Thrones saga is out today. The Sword in the Darkness continues to follow House Forrester as their path only gets darker. The Whitehill occupation of Ironrath continues, and members of the family will do whatever it takes to save their house. Asher seeks an army in Mereen, Mira is handling politics in King’s Landing and Gared must head north of The Wall. Every character will be facing new dangers, as seen in the trailer below. The episode is available now on Xbox 360 and Xbox One for $4.99, or as part of the season pass.

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The Pattern Texture Pack has now been released for all Xbox versions of Minecraft and is great for players looking to spice up their worlds. The pack allows players to litter their planet with bright colors, fancy patterns and knitted animals until the cuteness level simply reaches too much. The theme of the pack can also be applied to any previously made world, as well as any new worlds that are created. Those that are looking for a more through idea of what the pack has to offer, check after the jump to see a gallery of screenshots.

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The $2.5 billion deal that saw Minecraft change hands from creator Markus “Notch” Persson to Microsoft all started with a tweet, reports Forbes.

“Anyone want to buy my share of Mojang so I can move on with my life?” Persson tweeted in June of last year. “Getting hate for trying to do the right thing is not my gig.”

Mojang CEO Carl Manneh read the tweet, and, by his estimation, the phone rang just 30 seconds later. A most interested party was on the line: Microsoft. The console holder and software giant wanted to know if Persson was serious. So did Manneh.

As it turned out, the Minecraft mastermind had written the tweet half-jokingly, but things quickly turned serious when Persson realized this was his chance to divorce himself from Minecraft. He had once sworn he would never sell out, but after years of dealing with caustic communications — sometimes in regards to content changes Persson wasn’t even aware of, let alone responsible for — Persson had a change of heart.

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The first, of two system update waves, have been released for preview members and with it comes three new improvements to the system. One of the improvements comes in …
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The XBLA Fans Twitch Stream Team has grown drastically in recent months thanks to the support of our viewers. I’d love to personally encourage each of our readers to check out at least one broadcast this week. We will be updating the site on a weekly basis with a plethora of streams for you to enjoy.

In addition to our scheduled streams below we also sometimes do impromptu streams. The best way to stay informed of those is to follow XBLA Fans on Twitter and follow us on Twitch.

If there is a game you want to see streamed, please contact us.

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Monday 3/23

• 5p – 8p White Night with K4rn4ge
• 8p – 12a Ziggurat with Zero (Till he passes out)

Tuesday 3/24

• 12p – 5p Smite with Zero
• 7p-10p Jet Car Stunts + Giveaway with Cain141
• 10p – 1a Slender: the Arrival with Snapplecap

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