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343 Industries has just released a bunch of details about the upcoming matchmaking system for Halo 5. In the newly released information, 343 explained how penalties will work for bad behavior and how the new ranking system will work.

Players who repeatedly follow any of the following behaviors will be given temporary cooldowns which will prevent them from playing online matchmaking.

+ Quitting matches
+ Betrayals or team killing
+ Idling (AFK)
+ Intentional suicides
+ Excessive disconnects

The ranking system in Halo 5 has taken an interesting redesign. Players will first have to play placement matches. Once they have 10 wins under their belt, they will be given a rank. There will be a number of different ranks including Bronze, Gold, Platinum, Onyx and Champion.

Each rank will have a number of tiers within and once a player reaches Onyx and Champion the tiers will be replaced with a MMR score, which will be their leaderboard

Rockstar has just released a brand new trailer for GTA Online which shows off a new expansion heading to the streets of Los Santos. The new GTA Online expansion will be available for all players at no charge, but unlike previous content expansions, it will be adding some major game adjustments, especially to the way customizing player vehicles works.

The new update is called GTA Online: Lowriders and it will be released for PC, PS4 and Xbox One on October 20th. In the update, a new customs shop will open downtown called Benny's Original Motor Works. Players will also be able to head to a new website in-game that will include a number of new customizable vehicles.

Some of the new vehicles will feature new functions that can be accessed from the player interaction menu. These functions include the ability to open up the vehicle doors, hood and trunk, switch on the engine and flash your lights.

The new Lowriders update will also add some new content to GTA Online, including

After going a couple of months without any stock in sight, Bethesda suddenly announced new stock for the Fallout 4 Pip-Boy edition. In the past, the Pip-Boy collector's edition of Fallout 4 sold incredibly quickly.

It is expected that demand for the Pip-Boy edition this time round will be just as high or even higher than before so it's best that you act quickly if you'd like to have the chance of purchasing the collector's edition.

The new stock of the Pip-Boy edition is only available from Bethesda's official store. The version on the store is available for $120, just like everywhere else. Because of the huge demand, Bethesda could probably get away with selling the version for $300, but it's good to see that the price has stayed at $120.

Now that the launch of Fallout 4 is so close, it's likely that this new set of stock for the Pip-Boy edition will be the last chance for Fallout fans to get their hands on the version of Fallout 4. Once this stock has gone, fans will

343 Industries, Mojang and 4JStudios have all teamed up together to create a themed Minecraft DLC pack for Minecraft on the Xbox One and Xbox 360. This isn't the first time we've seen themed mash up packs for Minecraft on the Xbox, and in fact it's not the first time we've seen a Halo pack either.

In the past we saw a full Minecraft Halo theme which included a Halo texture pack, Halo music track and Halo map. This time, 343 Industries has worked closely with Mojang to create a Halo 5: Guardians skin pack.

Starting on October 23, players will be able to purchase a skin pack for Minecraft that adds a number of Halo skins to the game. The Halo DLC pack will only be available on Xbox One and Xbox 360.

For those that have already purchased the previous Halo mashup pack, you'll be happy to hear that this upcoming skin DLC will be available to you for free. Everybody else can pick up both the mash-up pack and the now included skins for $4.

In total there are eight different

Halo 5: Guardians will be getting a new clan system upon launch and players can already create their own clans and add their friends. The new clan system in Halo 5 is called Spartan Companies and each company can include up to 100 players.

As well as being an opportunity for players to create a social hub for communities and friends within Halo 5, Spartan Companies can be used to bring new players together. If you visit the Spartan Companies page you will find a list of all of the clans already created and it's possible to request invitations into these companies.

A player can only be in one company at once so players will have to remain loyal to their groups. As an added incentive to try out the Spartan Companies system, when a player joins a company for the first time, they will be rewarded a REQ pack with a guaranteed cosmetic item inside.

These REQ packs can of course not be used till Halo 5 is actually available and players can only gain 1 REQ pack from Spartan

The file size for the digital version of Fallout 4 has been leaked through Microsoft's listing of the game, and I must say, you will be pleasantly surprised to hear the numbers, especially if you're currently low on hard drive space.

There's no denying that Fallout 4 will be one of the most, if not the most expansive games released this year and as a result players are already expecting a large download size. Surprisingly though, Bethesda has done a great job at keeping the file size at a minimum.

If you choose to purchase Fallout 4 digitally on the Xbox One, you'll be looking at downloading and installing 28.12GB worth of space onto your console. The PlayStation 4 numbers haven't been revealed but they are likely to be very similar to the Xbox One's number.

At 28.12GB, you shouldn't have to worry at all about installing Fallout 4 onto your hard drive. It's also important to remember that you won't have to use any storage space for the base game if you purchase the

It's becoming an increasing trend for AAA titles to have less focus on the singleplayer aspects and more focus on the multiplayer. This is especially the case for many first person shooters over the last few years.

The first game to see a multiplayer only experience was Titanfall and since then we've now got Battlefront and it's now been revealed that Rainbow Six: Siege will also have no singleplayer campaign. This means that, besides the co-op mode Terrorist Hunt, everything in Rainbow Six: Siege will be on a player-versus-player basis, and almost everything will be done online either with or against other players.

There are a couple of exceptions to the above information. Rainbow Six: Siege will have a few training missions as well as a versus mode against AI for offline play, but these are the only offline options for players.

This information was revealed by Siege's art director Scott Mitchell, who said that players will, "Go through training, where you get to experience

The October lineup for Xbox Live Games with Gold has finally been revealed. Major Nelson has posted up all of the games that will be available for free throughout October. Check out the list below.

Xbox One - Valiant Hearts: The Great War
Xbox One - The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season
Xbox 360 - Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
Xbox 360 - The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season

From October 1st to October 31st, Xbox One players will be able to get their hands on Valiant Hearts: The Great War. This is easily the least known title on this month's lineup but doesn't mean it's bad. In fact, Valiant Hearts has received amazing awards and scores across the board, thanks to it's mesmerizing story and challenging puzzle aspects.

The next Xbox One title will be available starting October 16th and will be up for free till November 15th. This title is of course The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season. If you don't know this game by now, you probably

What games mean the most to you as a gamer are going to be down to personal preference and taste of genre, but when a good game has been developed, you simply can't dismiss it as anything other than a good game. EDGE has attempted to list the 100 top games of all time and I'd have to agree with a lot of the games on the list. Whilst we won't be posting the whole 100 games here, as it is quite lengthy, we've decided to cut to what matters the most - the top 10 games of all time, according to EDGE.

First up, let's take a look at the first five games, from spot number 10 to spot number 6.

10-Minecraft

9-Resident Evil 4

8-Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

7-Super Mario Galaxy 2

6-Tetris

At number 10, Minecraft definitely deserves a good mention. It's managed to break into millions of homes across the world as one of the most compatible games for all audiences. In terms of pure gameplay, Minecraft is certainly very incredible, but it misses that

There's no way to deny it. Halo: The Master Chief Collection launched with tons of issues and it completely ruined the possibility for many players to even play the game properly. 343 Industries has definitely taken the poor launch of the Master Chief Collection to heart though, and the boss of Xbox, Phil Spencer has spoken out about 343's promise to make sure Guardians is released without any problems.

"I know that of all of our teams, no team at their core feels the need to hit a great launch from a multiplayer and connection issues more than 343. That team took the issues around the launch of Master Chief Collection, it kind of hit them in the heart, because it's Halo Nation. It's the people who love these past Halo games."

Every time Phil Spencer has gone to visit 343 Industries, he's been impressed by their dedication to ensuring the quality of Halo 5, and it's multiplayer in particular, is as high as possible.

"No team is focused on it more than 343," Phil Spencer