The most anticipated game for the Xbox One won’t be landing this year.
On Friday, Microsoft announced that Halo 5: Guardians, the next installment in the epic sci-fi shooter series, will launch in late 2015.
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Flappy Bird flying back to the App store
Flappy 
Bird’s course is about as straight as Woodstock’s crooked flight path in the Peanuts cartoons. After being pulled months ago, the one-time mega-hit is headed back to the App store.
Creator Dong Nguyen, in a conversation with CNBC, says he will bring the game back this August after famously pulling it down in February. And he’s making some changes.
Sony execs cut their salaries in half
With 
Sony’s turnaround taking longer than expected and large losses in the foreseeable future, executives at Sony are slashing their own salaries to appease angry investors.
President and CEO Kaz Hirai and other Sony execs will take a 50 percent pay cut in the coming year, and will not receive any bonuses.
Microsoft to sell Kinect-less Xbox One for $399 — the same price as the PS4
Microsoft 
is reversing course on the Xbox One — again.
The company has announced it will begin selling a version of its next-generation console — minus the somewhat controversial Kinect peripheral — for $399 starting June 9. The move is the latest in a series of surprising decisions Microsoft has made since its initial introduction of the system, as it had previously described Kinect as an essential part of the new Xbox experience.
The Sims 4 gets adults only rating in Russia
Generally, 
when you start a list of controversial, adults only video games, The Sims is nowhere to be found.
In Russia, though, it’s towards the top of the list, apparently. The Sims 4, the latest in the long-running EA series, has been given an 18+ rating in the country – the equivalent of the dreaded AO in the U.S.
Researchers use Xbox One’s Kinect to help kids with cerebral palsy
If 
we’re being honest with ourselves (and we should), Kinect for Xbox One has been something of a dud. The games integrating the motion-control tech have been so-so and the voice recognition is still noticeably lacking.
Scientists at Canada’s Bloorview Research Institute, though, might have found a way to make it an extraordinarily useful peripheral by using it to help kids with cerebral palsy regain lost motor function.The games being used, reports Polygon, were originally created for the Xbox 360’s Kinect. However, kids (being kids) found that they could use that system’s lack of precision tocheat. The original Kinect also couldn’t discern if a child was in a wheelchair.
10 Must-Play Mobile Games
Still 
spending your time with Angry Birds or Candy Crush? While there’s certainly nothing wrong with flinging fowl at pigs or matching sweets, the maturation of mobile gaming is bringing about a new crop of must-haves, ranging from titles that can take just a moment of your time to games you can sink a few hours into and still barely scratch the surface.
If you’re missing any of these on your smart device, you’ll want to correct that quickly.
Nintendo to introduce Skylanders-like action figures for Wii U
Mario 
is following in the footsteps of Skylanders.
Nintendo has announced plans to introduce real-world toy figurines that could be used (and seemingly imported) into multiple games.
Nintendo earnings tank as Wii U continues to struggle
The 
bad times are getting worse at Nintendo.
The company posted a $228 million net loss for its fiscal 2014 year (which ended on March 31). That reverses 2013’s profit of $71 million.
The joystick used to land Apollo 15 on the moon is up for sale
Plenty 
of people have used joysticks to land on virtual moons, but now you can own a controller that has done the real deed.
The hand controller Commander Dave Scott used to manually guide the Apollo 15 Lunar Module Falcon to the moon’s surface in 1971 is going on the auction block. Bidding for the rare piece of space memorabilia is expected to reach as high as $300,000.
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