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LittleBigPlanet Vita development complete
0By: Moses Abaortae | September 4th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Sony announce that the title has gone Gold and is right on schedule ahead of its September release date. The game is one of many titles set for release over the next few months as Sony looks to provide more content to its Vita user base. In the video game industry, when a game’s development process is complete and it is ready to be transferred onto physical media or ready to ...
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Wii U version of Mass Effect restricted to 720p
By: Moses Abaortae | September 4th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Straight Right, the developers responsible for porting the game to Nintendo’s console, has revealed that the game will not run at 1080p as many were expecting, which could prove to be a blow for both EA and Nintendo. The Nintendo Wii U is nearing it’s, as yet unannounced, release date and with it comes the hype and announcements by developers about their latest games and pr...
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Dark Souls dev has second thoughts on difficulty
By: Moses Abaortae | September 4th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Hidetaka Miyazaki, the director of Dark Souls, is considering making the game easier in order to be more accessible to a wider gaming audience and wants to find the right balance between “satisfying” and “difficult”. Chances are that the reader has not played either Dark Souls or its predecessor, Demon Souls, or if he did then he did not make it past the first level, bu...
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Ubisoft slams ‘easy mode’ in video games
By: Moses Abaortae | September 4th, 2012 |Uncategorized
Assassin’s Creed 3’s lead designer, Alex Hutchinson, believes that too many games are ruined by the lack of challenge, i.e. ‘easy modes’ but assures fans that Ubisoft’s games are more about balance than difficulty. Video games are seen by many as a past time and then there are those who take them as a challenge. The former usually play a game no higher than the ‘Nor...
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Half Life remake, Black Mesa, release date announced
By: Moses Abaortae | September 4th, 2012 |Uncategorized
The fan made remake of the classic first-person shooter title is set for release on the 14th of September, although some of the latter chapters/levels of the game are still in development. There may be a number of gamers who have not played the original Half Life and do not get what the fuss is about w...
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Is Sony’s PlayStation Vita worth a buy?
By: Musa Afridi | September 3rd, 2012 |Uncategorized
Part 6: The Verdict So after going into plenty of detail about Sony’s second generation portable gaming console, the PlayStation Vita, it’s applications, games, accessories and every other factor, it is now time to answer the question whether or not the PlayStation Vita is worth a buy.
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Is Sony’s PlayStation Vita worth a buy?
By: Musa Afridi | September 3rd, 2012 |Uncategorized
Part 5: The Augmented Reality games can be counted on one’s fingertips with the most notable being Reality Fighter, Cliff Diving, Table Top Tanks and Fireworks. There are others as well but these are the only ones worth checking out. Reality Fighters is an interesting title ...
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Is Sony’s PlayStation Vita worth a buy?
By: Musa Afridi | September 3rd, 2012 |Uncategorized
Part 4: One can expect this baffling shortcoming to be remedied in the future but for the time being importing playlists is all the user has to make do with. Games Coming to the foundation of the PlayStation Vita and one re...
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Is Sony’s PlayStation Vita worth a buy?
By: Musa Afridi | September 3rd, 2012 |Uncategorized
Part 3: Apart from Sony’s in-house social networking programs, the Vita also comes with applications for Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and Skype. Although the console does have its own web browser, it does not support most video files, hence the YouTube application, which runs smooth and without a fuss.
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Is Sony’s PlayStation Vita worth a buy?
By: Musa Afridi | September 3rd, 2012 |Uncategorized
Part 2: The inclusion of a second analogue stick means that shooters, be it first-person or third-person, suddenly became a real possibility on the console, as are titles such as Grand Theft Auto and Assassin’s Creed. There are a number of games that demonstrate that those titles will work rather well on the Vita, with Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Resistance: Falling Skies, Mo...
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Is Sony’s PlayStation Vita worth a buy?
By: Musa Afridi | September 3rd, 2012 |Uncategorized
Almost eight months following the console’s release, should consumers be looking into purchasing a PlayStation Vita or should they hold off just a little longer? Wishfree.com takes a look. The PlayStation Vita hit shelves in Japan during December of last year and the rest of the world had to wait until February...
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Battlefield 3 producer leaves DICE to join Angry Birds studio Rovio
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | September 3rd, 2012 |Uncategorized
Employees jumping ships is not an usual sight in corporate sector since the doors of opportunities are continuously opening and closing, demanding for some bold decisions to be made without losing too much time. However, the news of Battlefield 3 producer Patrick Liu’s departure from DICE to Rovio has indeed taken many by surprise as they struggle to understand the motivation...
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Square Enix announces Final Fantasy 25th Anniversary Ultimate Box Collection for Japan
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | September 3rd, 2012 |Uncategorized
If you are a Final Fantasy and just cannot seem to get enough of it, then Square Enix is offering you something that would result in many sleepless nights. Celebrating the 25th years of the popular role-playing game franchise in Japan this past weekend, the company announced a Final Fantasy 25th Anniversary Ultimate Box Collection. Included in the box i...
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Wii U in for a tough time soon after its launch, says analyst
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | September 3rd, 2012 |Uncategorized
With Nintendo’s next-generation console Wii U just around the corner, speculations regarding its performance in terms of sales has already begun to circulate. Set to launch in the final quarter of this year, with November 18 being a supposed release date, Wii U will find itself enveloped in a number of challenges, some which Nintendo would possibly be able to handle and other...
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NCsoft decides to pull the plug on City of Heroes, developer Paragon Studios shutting down
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | September 3rd, 2012 |Uncategorized
An end of an era is beyond the fans of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) City of Heroes as NCsoft is closing down both the game as well as the developer Paragon Studios. The game will begin to sunset right away and is set to completely go offline by November 30. Closing down a department and sending an entire team home is never an easy decision to t...
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EA to avoid the mistakes that it made with current-generation consoles
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | September 3rd, 2012 |Uncategorized
Video game makers have already busied themselves with the preparations for the next-generation consoles, hoping to make a solid impact on it from the moment it arrives in the market. Electronic Arts (EA) is one of the many publishers who seem prepared to adapt to the upcoming high-end consoles and make a better impression than they did after the current-generation systems arriv...
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GameStop considering online store for vintage games
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | September 3rd, 2012 |Uncategorized
Even as we continue to move towards what is commonly regarded as a better future, completely letting go of the past is proving to be harder than everyone thought. Looking to capitalise on the nostalgia that generally persists in the community, American video game and entertainment software retailer GameStop has come up with a rather bold idea to add vintage games to its invento...
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Dead Rising creator believes games need to focus on emotions
By: Moses Abaortae | September 1st, 2012 |Uncategorized
Keiji Inafune, the creator of the Dead Rising and Mega Man series and working on the upcoming Soul Sacrifice for the Vita, believes that emotions need to become a pillar of the games of the future. While neither Dead Rising nor Mega Man were hugely emotion filled titles, the creator of both series, Keiji Inafune, believes that if video game wish to evolve as a medium then they ...
