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  • John Carmack remains unenthusiastic about the next-generation consoles

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    By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan  |  June 21st, 2012  |  News, Uncategorized
    Video Games Army Soldier

    id Software co-founder John Carmack has distanced himself from the list of developers who are thrilled about the arrival of the next-generation hardware. The legendary games programmer conceded that Sony and Microsoft should focus more on the experience offered by their upcoming consoles instead of focusing on a boost in technical power. During an interview with Games Indust...

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  • Sony not rushing the Last Guardian

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    By: Moses Abaortae  |  June 21st, 2012  |  News, Uncategorized
    SCEA PlayStation Booth E3 2012 - Day 1

    One of the most notable absentees at this year’s E3 was Team Ico’s The Last Guardian and Scott Rohde, the head of software development at PlayStation, was coy on giving any comments on the matter. E3 is the one event in the entire gaming calendar where everyone who is anyone in the gaming industry pays attention to what the developers and publishers have to say. This yearâ€...

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  • Crysis 3 dev slams Unreal Engine 4, claims competition is three years behind

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    By: Moses Abaortae  |  June 21st, 2012  |  News, Uncategorized
    Whatever you can do, I'm already doing better

    Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 reveal does not impress CryTek as the developer claims that while the former is just showing off demo’s, CryTek  has games that have already been released and are doing the same things. For those who do not know why two developers, CryTek and Epic, are making such a fuss about their various iterations of game engines, it is because in terms of harnes...

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  • PlayStation Vita sales almost double in Japan

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    By: Musa Afridi  |  June 21st, 2012  |  News, Uncategorized
    SCEA PlayStation Booth E3 2012 - Day 1

    Sony will be pleased to hear that after last week’s increase in sales of the Vita the console has seen a 150% increase in sales in the previous weeks thanks to Persona 4. After an agonizing couple of months, the PlayStation Vita has finally started picking up in the sales department. The sales of the console have skyrocketed in Japan from 13,383 units sold last week to 34,459...

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  • Survey shows mobile gaming market is expanding due to freemium and tablets

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    By: Moses Abaortae  |  June 21st, 2012  |  News, Uncategorized
    Games E3

    PopCap studios survey is giving the industry an insight into the growth of the mobile games market as well as how tablets are bringing in new players and how freemium could be the future. PopCap studios rose to fame with its Bejeweled games as well as the quirky yet addictive, Plants vs. Zombies series. It was recently acquired by EA in a deal worth more than an estimated $1.2-...

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  • Industry Analyst Michael Pachter expects the next Xbox to hit the shelves in 2014

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    By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan  |  June 21st, 2012  |  News, Uncategorized
    Microsoft

    Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter does not expect Microsoft to release Xbox 360’s successor anytime before 2014. The industry analyst strongly believes that Xbox 720 will be skipping 2013 despite the speculation that suggest otherwise. The next-generation console was tipped to be announced at next year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), but Pachter has rejected ...

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  • Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto concerned about the ubiquity of gun-focused games

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    By: Jason McCarthy  |  June 21st, 2012  |  News, Uncategorized
    Britain NINTENDO

    Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto admitted that he is concerned about the gaming industry’s heavy and continued reliance on gun-oriented games. Just a week after expressing his desire to make a first-person shooter himself, the legendary designer conceded that he did not approve of games based around guns as such themes contain a very potent risk of affecting the minds of th...

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  • Diablo 3 real-money auction house goes live but only in the US

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    By: Moses Abaortae  |  June 21st, 2012  |  News, Uncategorized
    BlizzCon 2011 - California

    Blizzard has finally released the long awaited real-money auction house after delaying the feature a number of times. However, the service is only available in the United States for the time being. The Diablo series took a long break from the world of video games after the second game in the series, Diablo 2, was released a decade ago in 2002. Gamers have had to wait and rely o...

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  • The Nintendo Wii U price and release date leaked on Amazon.com?

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    By: Musa Afridi  |  June 21st, 2012  |  News, Uncategorized
    E3 Gaming Convention - Los Angeles

    The online retailer’s German site has listed Nintendo’s next generation console on their site complete with a 399.99 Euro price point and a December release date. It is almost a norm in the video game industry to stumble upon news via sources other than official channels these days. Whether it be work experience on an as yet unannounced video game that has been listed on a ...

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  • Metal Gear Solid 5 in development, Snake set to return

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    By: Musa Afridi  |  June 21st, 2012  |  News, Uncategorized
    Spike TV's Video Game Awards 2011 - Show - California

    The creator of the MGS series, Hideo Kojima, has singlehandedly created more excitement than E3 singlehandedly by announcing that his studio, Kojima Productions, is currently working on the fifth instalment in the Metal Gear Solid series. The news Metal Gear Solid fans have been waiting to hear since Metal Gear Solid 4 was released, almost an eternity ago, is finally out: Hideo...

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