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Far Cry 3 and Just Dance 4 both delayed, Ubisoft confirms
0By: Musa Afridi | June 27th, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
Both titles have been hit with delays with Far Cry 3 now set for release in November and Just Dance 4 being moved back until the start of October as Ubisoft wants extra time to develop both titles. Ubisoft’s E3 Press Conference was perhaps the best of the year with only Sony coming anywhere near the publisher. Whether it was the mind-blowingly, orgasm inducing, goose bump spa...
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Zynga’s Bubble Safari runs at 60-fps on Facebook
By: Musa Afridi | June 27th, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
Publisher claims the latest game is one of many that will bring new experiences to gamers on Facebook with each title being optimized for the platform Social gaming has really taken off since Facebook allowed apps onto the platform. Worldwide phenomenon such as Farmville, The Sims Social and Words with Friends burst on to the scene making their respective publisher very, very r...
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EA lashes out at Business Informer over Sims Social article
By: Moses Abaortae | June 27th, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
Electronic Arts denies that the popular Facebook social game’s management has been handed over to another studio claiming the source has been ‘misinformed’ among other nasty things. Facebook may not be an emerging new market for gaming as it has been around for quite some time, however it is one that is growing exponentially as new publishers continue to join the market a...
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Spider-Man villain joins PlayStation 3 game cast – Rumour
By: Moses Abaortae | June 27th, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
Willem Dafoe is set to feature in Quantic Dream’s upcoming title, Beyond: Two Souls, alongside Ellen Page as the studio looks to raise the stakes in their latest project. Heavy Rain took the gaming world by surprise when the title brought an entirely new experience to the PlayStation 3 platform. Quantic Dream’s innovative title played more like an interactive movie than an ...
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Criterion Games take over the Need for Speed franchise
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | June 27th, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
There is a famous saying: if you can’t beat them, join them. However, Criterion Games has gone one step further and taken complete control of the renowned Need for Speed franchise, once their greatest rival in the racing games genre. During an interview with Game Informer magazine, Criterion Games vice president Alex Ward conceded that Electronic Arts (EA) Games had entrusted...
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Future of Resistance franchise appears dim, Sony admits no definitive plans for series
By: Jason McCarthy | June 27th, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
The Resistance franchise seems to have reached the end of the road as Sony suggests it has no clear plans of keeping the sci-fi horror series of first-person and third-person shooter alive. During an interview with Official PlayStation Magazine UK, the online producer of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) Daniel Brooke came out and bluntly stated that while it had been a...
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PlayStation 3 firmware update v.4.20 to go live within a few hours
By: Jason McCarthy | June 26th, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
Sony is all set to release update v4.20 for PlayStation 3’s operating system in not more than a few hours from now. The latest firmware update will make several minor improvements to the system and also resolve a few issues that had emerged after the release of firmware update v4.10 back in February, 2012. As per the information revealed, the upcoming software update will ...
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Crytek warms up to free-to-play model, projects it as the future of consoles
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | June 26th, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli believes the age of free-to-play games is just around the corner regardless of the current attitude of game industry giants such as Microsoft and Sony towards the new business model. Executive of the European gaming giant that brought us gems like Crysis and Far Cry claimed that his company was boldly going along with the shifting trend instead of resisti...
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Sony admits fault, explains why PS Vita was neglected at E3
By: Jason McCarthy | June 26th, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
Sony Worldwide Studios’ President Shuhei Yoshida conceded that it may not have been the best move by the company to considerably neglect PlayStation (PS) Vita at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) that went down earlier this month in Los Angeles. During a recent interview with VG247, Yoshida came out and bluntly talked about the absence of PS Vita at their E3 conference, ...
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Eidos President Ian Livingstone claims demand for single-player experience is immortal
By: Jason McCarthy | June 26th, 2012 | News, Uncategorized
President of Eidos Interactive Ltd. Ian Livingstone believes the demand for single-player games will never cease to exist. The gaming industry has been showing a significant transformation in recent times, with the focus of developers shifting from hardcore gamers to more casual players. The industry finds themselves staring at a whole new market to cater to, which in turn have...
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