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Aveline’s background: Assassin’s Creed 3: Liberation details flood in
0By: Moses Abaortae | October 19th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Part 1: Ubisoft has blown the lid of their upcoming PlayStation Vita title and released a number of intriguing bits of info about the game’s setting, gameplay mechanics and even teased online multiplayer. Ubisoft is hard at work developing a number of titles on multiple consoles. Assassin’s Creed 3 is their biggest project to date and the game is set to release on all major...
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Dress to kill: Assassin’s Creed 3: Liberation details flood in
By: Moses Abaortae | October 19th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Part 2: The PlayStation Vita Assassin’s Creed game’s female protagonist will be able to choose from three costumes in order to gain access to or blend into areas that would be difficult to do so otherwise. Ubisoft seems to be giving Liberation its due respect. While many studios would make a portable, half-he...
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Need for Speed dev considering new Burnout and Road Rash games
By: Musa Afridi | October 18th, 2012 |Uncategorized
The developer behind the latest Need for Speed game is considering three options for its next project, including a new shooter, in addition to the adrenaline pumping Burnout and classic Road Rash games. Criterion was a studio known for competing with the Need for Speed brand. There was a time when the Burnout gam...
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Team Fortress 2 takes a stand against rage-quitters
By: Musa Afridi | October 18th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Valve is clamping down on excessive quitting by players from matches before they are completed with penalties set to be imposed on the culprits. EA should take note and learn something for their FIFA games. Rage quitting is a term used to described the act of leaving a game before its completion due to the fact t...
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The English FA’s latest scapegoat is Video Games
By: Moses Abaortae | October 18th, 2012 |Uncategorized
The FA is set to impose new rules on the England squad in terms the amount of time they can spend playing video games as a part of their soon to be announced new code of conduct. David James is partly to blame. England’s lack of success on the silverware front seems to be putting all kinds of pressure on the En...
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Sony announce Halloween Sale on the PlayStation Store
By: Moses Abaortae | October 17th, 2012 |Uncategorized
PlayStation Plus subscribers get an extra discount on select horror titles as well, including the likes of Black Ops 2 zombie DLCs, Dead Space 2 and Resident Evil among the titles on offer as part of the promotion. Halloween is the perfect time for kids and adults alike to discard their usual norms of dressing, which have been enforced by society, and dress up however they like...
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Third-party Retro Wii U Pro Controller is pretty sweet
By: Moses Abaortae | October 17th, 2012 |Uncategorized
While Nintendo’s own Wii U Pro Controller boasts over 3 days of battery life … or as they put it, over80 hours of non-stop use, which isn’t bad, though many would want to know what the primary controller, the one with the screen, offers in terms of battery life. As is the case with any new piece of hardware, a number of third-party manufacturers attemp...
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Ubisoft allays Wii U GamePad lag concerns
By: Moses Abaortae | October 16th, 2012 |Uncategorized
The Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry developer assures gamers that the GamePad is “really responsive” as worried fans wondered whether streaming content on the pad’s screen would slow down response time and thus ruin the experience with lag, the eternal enemy of the gamer. Lag and gaming together in the same sentence is rarely a good thing as it destroys the overall experie...
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Tomb Raider, Hitman Absolution heading to the Wii U? – Rumour
By: Moses Abaortae | October 16th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Straight Right, the studio currently porting Mass Effect 3 on to the Nintendo Wii U, may very well be working to bring a Square Enix title to the console. Could it be Hitman, Tomb Raider or even Deus Ex? There are many sources for news in the video game industry; there is of course the official source, with publi...
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The Unfinished Swan and Payday hit PlayStation Plus
By: Moses Abaortae | October 16th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Sony is offering premium subscribers to the PlayStation Network service, also known as PlayStation Plus members, early access to The Unfinished Swan and has added Payday: The Heist to the Instant Game Collection, which means it’s free. The latest PlayStation Plus update brings a number of enticing offers for su...
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PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale closed beta now open!
By: Moses Abaortae | October 16th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Ironic headlines apart, Sony has released the All-Stars beta for PlayStation Plus members, who also happen to get a 10% on 007 Legends if they wish to avail it and have the chance to say their last name and their full name right after with a bit of suave. Sony’s focus on pushing into the digital distribution space can be seen by how hard its pushing its PlayStation Plus membe...
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Silent Hill: Book of Memories set to hit the Vita this week
By: Musa Afridi | October 15th, 2012 |Uncategorized
The PlayStation Vita is set to get its first survival-horror puzzle game with an new Silent Hill game and Sony seems pretty excited about it. Also, there are a number of games making their way to the PlayStation Network as well. Silent Hill may no longer have the same pedigree or wow factor it had when the first few instalments in the series were released, however, the series s...
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Sony highlights Doom 3 BFG, 007 Legends release
By: Musa Afridi | October 15th, 2012 |Uncategorized
We take a look at some of the game set to hit the PlayStation 3 console this week as well as a new PlayStation 2 which was hidden in the back of the PlayStation Network cupboard. The games set to release for Sony’s console may not be the huge titles everyone is hoping for, such as Assassin’s Creed 3 or The La...
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Halo 4 dev believes leak was “inevitable”
By: Musa Afridi | October 15th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Microsoft is currently investigating the source of the leak of their latest game and are dishing out bans left, right and centre but the developers behind Master Chief’s return, 343 Industries, believe that the leak was bound to happen. Halo 4 is set to give the current first-person shooter giant, Call of Duty,...
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Madden NFL 13 scores a touchdown in the US sales charts
By: Moses Abaortae | October 15th, 2012 |Uncategorized
There was no way around that cliché as EA Sports will be glad to know that along with FIFA 13, the American Football game also topped the charts in the land where men play football with their hands. The monthly sales charts for the United States are in and make for some interesting, albeit rather predictable, re...
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Halo 4 leaked, Microsoft investigates
By: Moses Abaortae | October 15th, 2012 |Uncategorized
The Xbox 360 Police are on the case as Microsoft threatens anyone who plays the leaked version of Halo 4 with a ban. However, there is still a bit of confusion as to whether a pre-release review disc or the retail version of the game has been leaked. Microsoft seems to have a bit of an issue on their hands as their eagerly anticipated upcoming game isn’t upcoming any more. As...
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The Xbox 360 continues its dominance in the United States
By: Moses Abaortae | October 15th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Microsoft continues to hold 49% of the market share in terms of console sales in the US as it tops the hardware sales charts for yet another month, taking the run to 21 months in the number one spot. There is no doubting the fact that the Xbox 360 owns the video game market in North America. The fact that Microso...
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Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption and L.A. Noire in the same box
By: Moses Abaortae | October 15th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Rockstar is set to put four of its biggest games in the same box with the Rockstar Games Collection, set to retail at $59.99. If one thinks about it, Rockstar very rarely has any bad games on its roster. Some games did not live up to expectations, but were still way above average, some games did not sell as well as Rockstar would have liked but redefined the gaming genre and go...
