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Rumour: Final Fantasy Versus XIII is dead
0By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | July 23rd, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
If you are a Final Fantasy fan and have been anxious to get some sort of update on the development and release date of the PlayStation 3 exclusive title Final Fantasy Versus XIII, we have a bad news for you. According to an alleged report from Kotaku, Square Enix has cancelled the project and folded back its development and resources to utilise them in the development of anothe...
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Nintendo President believes Wii U will be important for the world
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | July 23rd, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
Nintendo Wii U may have plenty of hurdles to overcome in order to establish itself as a successful system, but that does not stop the company president Satoru Iwata from stating that the upcoming console will be “important for the world.” While most of the hype surrounding Wii U is related to it being the first in line of next-generation consoles, beating out the likes of S...
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Dishonored developer voices concern over lack of variety in industry
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | July 21st, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
The lack of unique intellectual properties (IP) in gaming industry has been getting more apparent over the last few years. A number of analysts have pointed out the lack of variety when it comes to video game experience and emphasised on the need for creativity in order to keep the industry from dying. The developer of Dishonored and Half-Life 2 Viktor Antonov has also spoke...
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Sleeping Dogs to feature voices of Emma Stone and Lucy Liu
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | July 21st, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
Square Enix’s upcoming game Sleeping Dogs will be featuring the voices of well-known Hollywood and Hong Kong cinema stars, including Emma Stone and Lucy Liu. The company revealed the names of the celebrities who are involved in the project, stating that “a line-up of both Hollywood and Hong Kong cinema stars were enlisted to help the game capture the tone of Hong Kong cinem...
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Dota 2 Heroes – An introduction of Krobelus the Death Prophet
By: Jason McCarthy | July 20th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
Krobelus the Death Prophet is not like your average intelligence hero in Defense of the Ancients (Dota) 2 as her endurance capability is comparable to that of a strength hero. Death Prophet is an intelligence hero that has an ability to push lanes and towers like none other. Built quite tank-like, she can also deal quite a bit of physical damage per second (dps) with her ultima...
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40-hour Diablo III session results in death of teenager in Taiwan
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | July 20th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
Too much of anything can prove harmful and that is exactly what has transpired in a Tainan, Taiwan, as a man identified by his surname of Chuang collapsed and died after a 40-hour gaming session of Diablo 3 on Sunday, July 15. According to reports, the 18-year-old man booked a private room in an internet café on Friday afternoon. He did not emerge from the room for the next tw...
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Sam Raimi steps down from his role of World of Warcraft film director
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | July 20th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
The movie adaptation of Blizzard’s immensely popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game (RPG) World of Warcraft has suffered a setback as director Sam Raimi has detached himself from the project. Talking with CraveOnline at the Comic-Con last week, Raimi revealed that he had stepped down as the director of the forthcoming film based on the popular World of Warcraf...
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No Mega Man and Pac-Man for Xbox 360 version of Street Fighter X Tekken, confirms game producer
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | July 19th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
The recent discovery of data relating to Mega Man and Pac-Man on the Xbox 360 version of Capcom’s Street Fighter X Tekken disc came as a huge and pleasant surprise for the owners of the Microsoft current-generation console. However, the joy did not last for long as the producer of the two-dimensional (2D) fighting game Tomoyaki Ayano made it clear during an interview with Sil...
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EA Easy Studios Oskar Burman resigns after a brief tenure
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | July 19th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
Working at Electronic Arts (EA) has a lot of appeal at the moment, considering the successful run that the company has been having for a number of years now. It seems to have gotten hold of the Hand of Midas, converting anything it touches into gold. At such a time, it seemed very unlikely to find an employee emptying his drawer and leaving the company for good. However, the...
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Valve responds to Steam Summer Sale controversy
By: Musa Afridi | July 18th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
Jason Holtman, the director of business management at Valve, states that if the sale was harming the IPs then the digital distributor would halt the sale. Valve is easily the largest digital distributor of video game content through its platform, Steam. In fact, Steam was so successful that other publishers such as Electronic Arts and Ubisoft followed suit and launched their ow...
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WWE 13 gets Austin 3:16 Collector’s Edition and Mike Tyson
By: Musa Afridi | July 18th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
Stone Cold Steve Austin will be available as a playable character on the game’s roster but only for those who order THQ’s latest title from GAME or GameStation. THQ may have lost the rights to UFC but they still have the WWE franchise and the massive fan base that comes with it. With the Ultimate Fighting Cha...
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EA likens Origin backlash to that of Steam
By: Musa Afridi | July 18th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
Electronic Arts’ digital distribution platform has responded to ‘issues’ from the core gamer demographic and maintain that Origin has been a huge success. There is an industry wide consensus that the age of the physical disc is coming to an end soon and that once the kinks of the digital distribution model ...
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EA announce Need for Speed Most Wanted pre-order incentives
By: Musa Afridi | July 18th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
Limited Edition also detailed for Criterion’s upcoming game. EA is pulling out all the stops for the game they hope will make up for Need for Speed: The Run, which the studio admits was a disappointment for everyone. Need for Speed Most Wanted will come with...
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Sony initially wanted to own the Limbo IP but failed
By: Musa Afridi | July 18th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
Playdead studios opted out of an exclusivity deal with PlayStation after being approached by Sony and decided to go multiplatform. Everyone in the gaming industry knows about a certain title by the name of Limbo. Not everyone may have played the game but there have been numerous videos and media coverage surround...
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Nintendo Wii U is bound to fail, predicts industry analyst Michael Pachter
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | July 18th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
Despite an underwhelming response to Wii U after its unveiling at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles last month, Nintendo is still confident about its success. The post-E3 reviews and comments about Wii U has not exactly been something that Nintendo would be too happy to come across, but that does not necessarily promise the worst fate for the console. Howeve...
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Rockstar Games apologises to fans over slow development of GTA V
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | July 18th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
Recognising the increasing anxiety within the fans of the Grand Theft Auto (GTA) franchise because of having to wait really long for the latest instalment in the series and receiving very few details on the product so far, Rockstar Games has apologised for the delay. The new Asked and Answered feature on the company’s website saw Rockstar Games responding to the various queri...
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PlayStation All Stars Battle Royale gets InFamous, Jak and Daxter characters
By: Musa Afridi | July 17th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
The party brawler gets two new characters with Cole MAcGrath from the InFamous games and Jak & Daxter joining the cast following an announcement during the San Diego Press Conference. The party games genre is making a big comeback with a number of publishers announcing titles similar to some of the Nintendo Wii’s best sellers. Mario Karting and Super Smash Mario Bros. wer...
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F1 Race Stars to provide “more entertainment than simulation”
By: Musa Afridi | July 17th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
Codemasters’ spin-off of the Formula One series sees Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel, Fernando Alonso and others go head-to-head in a Mario Kart type game. Chris Gray, the senior producer of the upcoming F1 Race Stars game from Codemasters, spilled the beans on the developer’s latest game and believes it will bring in more players to the popular Formula One games from the ...
