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Winter games: the big video game releases of 2015 and what they tell us about the state of the industry

We're heading into video game release season, when all the major blockbuster titles are flung onto the market in the hope of snaring those Christmas millions. However, amid the flood of sequels, shooters and sci-fi epics it seems that variety and diversity of experience are being increasingly overlooked in the rush to give a certain demographic exactly what they think they want.

Can big publishers really sustain this hugely expensive Triple A model into the next decade? On this week's games takeover podcast, Keith Stuart and Jordan Erica Webber take look at all the biggest releases with independent games developer Holly Pickering, journalist at Kotaku, Keza Macdonald and Nicholas Lovell from Gamesbrief to ask if creativity is being strangled in the mainstream video game sector.

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