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Crysis 3, Watch Dogs and Mafia dev all make the headlines
0By: Musa Afridi | November 2nd, 2012 |Uncategorized
With the Holiday Season in full swing a number of studios are taking advantage of the extra attention and focus on the industry to promote and build up some hype for their games including EA, Ubisoft and 2K with news relating to their respective titles. Ubisoft blew audiences away at E3 when they premiered their ...
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FIFA 13’s Wii U features detailed – 2
By: Musa Afridi | November 2nd, 2012 |Uncategorized
Part 2: EA Sports seems to be giving the Wii U GamePad the same treatment it gave to the PlayStation Vita version of the game albeit with much more depth than its portable console counterpart. The ability to use the touch-screen to shoot and pass seems to be taken right out of the PlayStation Vita’s version of ...
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FIFA 13’s Wii U features detailed – 1
By: Musa Afridi | November 2nd, 2012 |Uncategorized
EA take advantage of GamePad Part 1: Nintendo seems to be gearing up for the release of the Wii U and so is EA Sports as they release a bag load of details as to how the game will be taking advantage of the Wii U’s controller’s features to provide a unique football simulation experience. EA is looking to expand its portfolio of consoles on which it relea...
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Portal 2 gets DLC designed for the PlayStation Move
By: Musa Afridi | November 2nd, 2012 |Uncategorized
In Motion is Valve’s latest offering in terms of Downloadable Content for their award-winning, Portal 2, and has been designed with motion control, or more specifically, the Move controller, in mind. The original Portal game was nothing more than a project by a group of students who used Valve’s Source engine...
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Wii U’s GamePad best-ever controller by Nintendo for hardcore games, claims Gearbox Software
By: Jason McCarthy | November 1st, 2012 |Uncategorized
While the unique GamePad controller for Nintendo’s Wii U has been struggling to convince analysts of the promise it holds over the last few months, Gearbox Software has already acknowledged it. The president of the studio Randy Pitchford is all praises for the tablet controller that the Japan-based gaming industry giant is all set to introduce later this month. According t...
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Lego: Lord of the Rings arrives for 3DS, DS and Vita, to hit consoles and PC in mid-November
By: Jason McCarthy | November 1st, 2012 |Uncategorized
The fans of the Lord of the Rings franchise can rejoice as Lego: Lord of the Rings has been released on Nintendo’s 3DS and DS, as well as PlayStation Vita. The console and PC version of the game is scheduled to hit the North American region on November 13, whereas the European release will follow in ten day’s time on November 23. The Oscar-winning motion picture by Peter...
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The best-selling game in the United States for 2012 is…
By: Musa Afridi | November 1st, 2012 |Uncategorized
Xbox 360 titles dominate the US software sales charts for the period of January to September 2012 with the likes of Madden NFL 13, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Borderlands 2 among the top 20. A testament to how well-established and dominant Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is in the United States is the fact that nine out of the top 20 best-selling games between January to Septembe...
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Battlefield 3 and Origin Subscription figures announced by EA
By: Musa Afridi | November 1st, 2012 |Uncategorized
EA’s quarterly financial reports for Q2 FY13 (Second Quarter of the Financial Year 2013) show increase in subscriptions of both services as the publisher sees growth on the mobile and digital front. Electronic Arts may have been slapped with the ‘one of the worst companies to work for’ tag in the United States but it seems the company is doing well for itself on the subsc...
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Medal of Honor: Warfighter tops the charts despite poor reception
By: Musa Afridi | November 1st, 2012 |Uncategorized
United Kingdom: the weekly charts are in and it seems FIFA 13 did not survive a well-executed ambush by the various Tier 1 Operatives from around the world. Starting things off at the bottom of the top ten and Capcom will have to be hoping some DLC can revive the falling sales of Resident Evil 6....
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Resident Evil 6 and Dragon’s Dogma sales boost Capcom’s revenue
By: Musa Afridi | November 1st, 2012 |Uncategorized
The publisher sees a half-year profit of £32-million as the two games help take the total revenue earned to £354-million; a massive increase from the same period last year. When it comes to Japan there are a number of large publishers with huge titles and franchises present in their portfolio; from Kojima Productions and the Metal Gear series, to Konami and Namco Bandai, ther...
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Kurt Sutter invites Rockstar Games to make the Sons of Anarchy game
By: Jason McCarthy | November 1st, 2012 |Uncategorized
Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter has turned towards Grand Theft Auto maker Rockstar Games to work on the biker drama game. The franchise creator admitted that working on the project would prove to be nothing short of an uphill battle, but the challenge is nothing that cannot be bested through collaborated effort. In his recent post on the social networking and micro-blogg...
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Halo franchise nears 50-million sales while Borderlands 2 sets record
By: Musa Afridi | November 1st, 2012 |Uncategorized
Microsoft has revealed that the lifetime sales figures of the Halo series stands at 46-million units sold while 2K Games declares Borderlands 2 one the best-selling game in the company’s history as it crosses the 5-million units sold mark. Starting things off with one of the hottest new IPs to have come along this generation and Borderlands 2 built on the success of its criti...
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Metal Gear Rising gets a Limited Edition to die for
By: Musa Afridi | November 1st, 2012 |Uncategorized
Konami set to make only 25,000 Limited Versions of Revengeance that come with a host of goodies including an action figure, DLC codes and concept art. The Limited Edition will also only be released in Japan on the PlayStation 3 format. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is an off-shoot of the popular Metal Gear series. It sees Raiden as the main protagonist and his ginormous sword ...
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EA “not happy” with Warfighter reception
By: Moses Abaortae | November 1st, 2012 |Uncategorized
Latest Medal of Honor game fails to impress the masses while the game’s publisher maintains that it is a solid title. Electronic Arts gave themselves a mountain to climb when they released Battlefield 3 last year. The game was praised by almost everyone and it even stole some of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s thunder. Gamers became weary and tired of the successful yet...
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EA explains reasons behind NBA LIVE 13 axe
By: Moses Abaortae | October 31st, 2012 |Uncategorized
The studio has not released a NBA game since 2010 and a number of EA executives have come forward and explained the reasons behind the move and assured fans that they will release a basketball simulation when it’s up to the mark. A number of NBA games have been rumoured and release dates thrown around in the past. The...
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Nintendo confident about Wii U success during holiday season
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | October 31st, 2012 |Uncategorized
Irrespective of what the industry analysts have been saying over the last few months, Nintendo is confident about its upcoming console Wii U enjoying a healthy launch next month. The company’s president Satoru Iwata shared his confidence during a financial presentation about the next-generation console making a strong impact in North America, Europe and Australia, where it is...
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Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse to deliver familiar experience to the fans, claims Activision
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | October 31st, 2012 |Uncategorized
Call of Duty maker Activision is all set to treat the fans of the popular animated sitcom Family Guy to an unforgettable experience with their upcoming game Family guy: Back to the Multiverse next month. The company’s lead producer Andy Owen has no doubt that anyone who loves the hilarious TV show will embrace the game with open arms as the game has been developed while keepi...
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Need for Speed: Most Wanted headed to Wii U in 2013
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | October 31st, 2012 |Uncategorized
One of the most anticipated racing games of the year Need for Speed: Most Wanted will be arriving on the Wii U sometime next year, confirmed Electronic Arts (EA). The 19th title in the immensely popular racing video game franchise will be releasing today in the North American region for multiple platforms, which include Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, Andr...
