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BioWare rewarding those with Mass Effect 2 in their Black Ops 2 copy
0By: Moses Abaortae | November 26th, 2012 |Uncategorized
The developer is offering the entire Mass Effect trilogy to the first fifty people who found one CD of Black Ops 2 and one of Mass Effect 2 when they purchased the latest Call of Duty game. The world seems to be a better place after a in a bizarre twist to already bizarre events. Black Ops 2 is set to shatter records set by its Infinity Ward predecessor, Modern Warfare 3, as Ac...
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The top three PlayStation Move moments
By: Moses Abaortae | November 26th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Unsure about the Move, so were we, until we used them in these sequences. They may be few and far between but they are worth experiencing. So with over 15-million PlayStation Moves sold worldwide, thus far, chances are that are a number of gamers who have tried Sony’s motion controller. However, for the core gamer switching from the controller to the Move for first-person sho...
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PlayStation Vita gets Uncharted: Fight for Fortune spin-off
By: Moses Abaortae | November 26th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Card based game set to be released for the portable console as both a standalone and an expansion for Uncharted: Golden Abyss in early December. Successful games and series means a number of things, one of which is the inevitable spin off that is bound to rear its head sooner or later. While the games may be outsourced to other studios for release on different platforms, such a...
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The PlayStation Vita v2.00 firmware update brings a host of changes
By: Musa Afridi | November 26th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Sony detail how the new update will improve the console’s performance as well as the new features it brings, most notably, PlayStation Plus. Already having gone live, the update will bring changes, tweaks and enhancements on a number of fronts. Starting things off with the Browser, which has been optimized to improve “the display speed of Web pages”, the ability to “...
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ZombiU devs consider DLC for title
By: Musa Afridi | November 26th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Ubisoft isn’t ruling out the possibility of releasing the downloadable content for their post-zombie-apocalypse first-person shooter survival-horror title. You can’t get a more precise description of the game than that! The Nintendo Wii U is out and as the world waits for the official sales figures of the console to be released developers are already taking a look at the ne...
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Mirror’s Edge 2, where is it?
By: Moses Abaortae | November 25th, 2012 |Uncategorized
The original Mirror’s Edge game was released in 2009 and garnered a bit of a cult following and many are wondering when EA will announce the widely rumoured sequel. It was different, it was risky and in the end, not many people bought it but the few that did and understood what the game was trying to, do spent endless hours traversing the game’s world looking for the perfec...
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Call of Duty’s dominance is killing innovation in the industry
By: Moses Abaortae | November 25th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Part 3: Spec Ops: The Line is just one example of a great game marred by a tacked on multiplayer component to compete with Call of Duty, but it’s not the latter’s fault. The multiplayer in Spec Ops: The Line demonstrated the publishers are willing to push developers into places they do not want to go in terms of the level of freedom they have with their titles. The game was...
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Call of Duty’s dominance is killing innovation in the industry
By: Moses Abaortae | November 24th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Part 2: every studio is copying Call of Duty’s formula and we take a look at and highlight the various instances as to how. No matter which game on takes a look at, it has been influenced in one way or the other by Activision’s Call of Duty series. While many of the staple multiplayer features and single-player set pieces have inspired other developers, the formula’s succ...
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Call of Duty’s dominance is killing innovation in the industry
By: Moses Abaortae | November 24th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Part 1: While Black Ops 2 is looking to break the record for fastest-selling entertainment product and it may be great news for the publisher, Activision, it may not be the best thing for those looking for a new experience. So Call of Duty: Black Ops is out and managed to sell 1-million copies through retailer, GameStop, alone. Analysts are estimating the game sold over 6-milli...
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EA exec call out hypocritical fans
By: Moses Abaortae | November 23rd, 2012 |Uncategorized
Patrick Soderlund, the Vice President of EA, claims fans are “creating the problem” by not supporting new IPs and sticking to sequels while complaining about a lack of innovation. While Soderlund may not have been as brash or explicit in his recent statements, he did call out gamers for making the industry the way it is at the moment. To add some context and background, man...
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Templars steal shipment of Assassin’s Creed 3
By: Moses Abaortae | November 23rd, 2012 |Uncategorized
The ancient war between the Assassin’s Creed and the Templars is still being fought and it seems the latter managed a small victory after stealing a shipment of their enemy’s propaganda material. For those who are still oblivious to the secret war between the two ancient orders, this news will not be as significant to you as it will be to those who do. The members of the...
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Metro: Last Light developer calls Wii U’s CPU “slow” and “horrible”
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | November 22nd, 2012 |Uncategorized
The first-ever high-definition console by Nintendo, Wii U, may be the hottest system in the North American market at the moment, but not everyone is thoroughly impressed by the hardware and its capabilities. Metro: Last Light developer 4A Games is one of the studios that do not have much faith in the rendering power of the new console and gone as far as bluntly stating that its...
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Wii U mandatory firmware update can be run in the background
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | November 21st, 2012 |Uncategorized
Nintendo brought the long wait of consumers to an end with the Wii U launch in North America on November 18. The consumers were understandably excited to get their hand on what is the first system in the next-generation space and it was only natural for them to rush home, plug their system in and kick-off the gaming experience. However, things did not go down smoothly for th...
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Mass Effect producer asks fans if the next game should be a prequel to the series
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | November 21st, 2012 |Uncategorized
One thing that has become crystal clear over the last few weeks is that the maker of the Mass Effect series BioWare is completely dedicated to its goal of ensuring that the next title in the franchise is a blockbuster. The developer has been turning to its loyalists from time to time, seeking feedback and calling for suggestions from the fans regarding what they would like to s...
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PlayStation Plus launches on the Vita with a host of free games
By: Musa Afridi | November 21st, 2012 |Uncategorized
Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Gravity Rush and WipEout 2048 free for PlayStation Plus subscribers as the service hits the Vita with the latest update. The PlayStation Plus is Sony’s premium subscription service for the PlayStation Network members and so far it has been hailed by those who have its service, mostly because of the constant supply of free games. However, so far it ...
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Sony announce free SDK for the PlayStation Vita
By: Musa Afridi | November 21st, 2012 |Uncategorized
The dev kit is available for free it will cost $99 a year to be able to publish. The PlayStation Vita is struggling for unique content and Sony seems to have come to a rather interesting solution to the problem. With only a handful of titles exclusive to the console such as Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Resistance: Burning Skies and LittleBigPlanet Vita, and the majority of other ti...
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The Walking Dead and Hitman Absolution invade the PlayStation Network
By: Musa Afridi | November 21st, 2012 |Uncategorized
Sony has a number of hitting the PlayStation Store this week with something new, something old, something Dead and something RPG. The publisher is working extensively to provide day-one releases on the PlayStation Network and looks set to continue that trend with Hitman Absolution which is set to release on the PlayStation Store the same day as retailers. So...
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More demand than supply of Wii U in market causing problems for consumers
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | November 21st, 2012 |Uncategorized
The strong demand of Nintendo’s first-ever HD console Wii U in the market is becoming a bit of a concern as the consumers are being forced to show a great deal of patience. The anger that follows a long journey in cold weather and enduring horrible traffic to get to a store to buy a console that you or your child has been anxiously waiting for months, only to find it out of s...
