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Digital distribution for next-gen consoles will make games cheaper – Darling
0By: Musa Afridi | July 5th, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
David Darling, the CEO of Kwalee and co-founder of Codemasters pointed out the advantages of digital distribution for both gamers and publishers. Social games may be increasing in popularity but that may for a number of reasons apart from their relatively lower price as compared to full-on console titles. David Darling gave the example of Angry Birds and how the series manag...
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Quality instead of quantity primary focus of Super Smash Bros. developers for latest iteration
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | July 5th, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
The future iterations of Super Smash Bros. are likely to offer a different experience instead of featuring an expanded cast of playable characters. According to Masahiro Sakurai, designer of the famous fighting game featuring a crossover of characters from various Nintendo intellectual properties, while introducing new characters to each subsequent Super Smash Bros. title had s...
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The Amazing Spider-Man – Game Review for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
By: Jason McCarthy | July 5th, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
A Fun game lacking sharp graphics and fluid animations We all knew that sooner or later, Activision would be sending us to New York City and expecting us to put some new evil scheme to rest, defeating a number of superhuman foes and taking out a long list of muggers in the process. Therefore, when The Amazing Spider-Man was released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on June 26...
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EA Games plans to completely shift to digital distribution channel in near future
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | July 5th, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
Things are rapidly changing in the gaming industry for better or for worse. Therefore, the news of Electronic Arts (EA) Games’ plan to eventually become completely digital hardly comes off as a shock. In an interview with GamesIndustry International, EA Games Label President Frank Gibeau came out to bluntly state that a 100 percent transition to digital distribution was inevi...
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Lollipop Chainsaw – Game Review for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
By: Jason McCarthy | July 5th, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
A perfect example of a great concept with poor execution There is not a lot that can go wrong if you introduce a hot blonde girl in a short skirt, hand her a deadly weapon and send a swarm of zombies towards her, giving her a license to decapitate them as viciously as she likes. Yet, Grasshopper Manufacture has somehow managed to take the mentioned ingredients, put them in a mi...
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PlayStation’s Dust 514 moves on to second beta
By: Musa Afridi | July 5th, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
PS3 gamers can still sign up for beta on developers website as the free-to-play shooter looks to test the latest iteration of its game. Dust 514 is Sony’s offering in the emerging free-to-play market. A number of top publisher have either released their F2P titles or are in the process of doing so.
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FIFA 13’s three core improvements: Multiple Platforms 3/3
By: Moses Abaortae | July 5th, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
EA Sports is focused on innovation and providing a constant supply of fresh content for gamers for FIFA 13 while at the same time looking to provide a more expansive experience. FIFA 12 raised the bar, not just for football simulations games, but every sports title with its fluid gameplay and physical impact engi...
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FIFA 13’s three core improvements: Service 2/3
By: Moses Abaortae | July 5th, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
The EA Sports Executive Vice-President, Andrew Wilson, spoke about how innovation was a crucial element in FIFA 13’s development process before he went on to state another important factor. FIFA 13 will have the difficult task of trying to out-do its stellar predecessor, FIFA 12. The task may be likened to scal...
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FIFA 13’s three core improvements – Innovation 1/3
By: Moses Abaortae | July 5th, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
Electronic Arts label head, Andrew Wilson, highlighted the ethos the development team had adopted for FIFA 13 and his interview continued with him explaining the three major areas that the game was looking to improve. Andrew Wilson began his interview by assuring fans that FIFA 13 would not be a simple re-pack of...
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FIFA 13’s three core improvements – Introduction
By: Moses Abaortae | July 5th, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
The EA label head pointed out the three things that EA Sports have focused on in an effort to emulate the success of the previous instalment in the series, FIFA 12. There was a time when the FIFA series was under the immense shadow of Konami’s Pro Evolution series and that time was not all that long ago. Howeve...
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