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Gears of War Judgement release date and multiplayer changes announced
0By: Musa Afridi | July 17th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
Well, release month actually as People Can Fly has announced the game will release in March next year and introduces new multiplayer modes including OverRun. Gears of War is one of the gaming highlights that Microsoft’s Xbox 360 has to offer with the trilogy having a huge fan base as well as being both a critical and a commercial success. Epic Games, the studio behind the wid...
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WipeOut 2048 Demo – Worth downloading?
By: Musa Afridi | July 17th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
The PlayStation Vita has quite a few demos on offer but that does not mean they are all worth space on the memory but is WipeOut 2048 worth a download or one everyone should pass? To start off with, the WipeOut 2048 demo is a single-race that gives player a short but sweet taste of what they can expect from the full game. The game is developed by Sony Computer Entertainment’s...
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Battlefield 4 leaked through Medal of Honor: Warfighter
By: Musa Afridi | July 17th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
EA had to move fast to remove a post stating that players who pre-order Medal of Honor: Warfighter would get access to the Battlefield 4 beta, but the publisher was not fast enough. The video game industry is unique in many ways, one of which is how news breaks. Sometimes the news comes from official sources with formal announcements but those are rare as more often than not ne...
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Dota 2 Heroes – An introduction to Lanaya the Templar Assassin
By: Jason McCarthy | July 17th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
Lanaya the Templar Assassin made her entry into the Defense of the Ancients (Dota) 2 Hero roster last week. Being one of the most positioning and timing-intensive heroes in game, she is most suitable for advanced players. Templar Assassin is an agility semi-carry and ganker. The latter becomes even more apparent with her abilities allowing her to set up ganks from a very far di...
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Dota 2 Heroes – An introduction to Lina the Slayer
By: Jason McCarthy | July 17th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
A ranged intelligence hero in nature, Lina the Slayer is not afraid to play with fire or manipulate lightning. Once you get over the fact that she is extremely hot, no pun intended, you will be blown away by the sheer amount of damage she is capable of dealing in a matter of seconds. Lina is a burst-damage hero that is extremely versatile in the laning phase, being able to be a...
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Mortal Kombat creators eager to test their might in non-fighting genre
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | July 16th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
NetherRealm Studios, the developer that brought us Mortal Kombat, is planning on exploring other genres instead of simply sticking to fighting games. The co-creator of the popular and outrageously violent fighting-game series Ed Boon conceded that the team was really looking forward to trying out something new and expanding their wings of creativity even further. The announc...
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Nintendo president recognises the need to differentiate to compete against smartphones and tablets
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | July 16th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
Regardless of what is being said by the analysts and depicted by the statistics, Nintendo refuses to acknowledge smartphones and tablets as a significant threat to the success of its portable video game consoles. In an interview with the UK newspaper The Independent, the president of the Japanese video game giant Satoru Iwata asserted that competition from the likes of Apple’...
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Battlefield 3 chief leaves DICE after reviving series
By: Moses Abaortae | July 16th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
The lead designer of the Battlefield games, David Goldfarb, has resigned from his post at DICE but assures fans of the games that the series is in good hands. The Battlefield series has long endured as the first-person shooter title on the PC for tactical online gameplay. The vast maps, vehicles and class system ...
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Nintendo Wii U rumours frustrate Scribblenauts dev
By: Moses Abaortae | July 16th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
Jeremiah Slaczka, the CEO of 5th Cell, has quashed rumours that claim the Wii U is not as powerful as the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The race to be the first next generation console seems to have been won by Nintendo based on the fact that the platform developer seems set to launch its console by either the end of the year or in Q1 next year. With both Microsoft ...
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Uncharted: Golden Abyss tips, tricks and hints – Part 4
By: Moses Abaortae | July 16th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
The tips keep on coming with how one can use the PlayStation Vita to turn yourself into a headshot machine, among other things. One thing that Bend Studio delivered wonderfully is using the gyroscope in the PlayStation Vita to great effect for aiming. First things first, players can move the Vita around to move the crosshairs on screen while aiming. On its o...
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Uncharted: Golden Abyss tips, tricks and hints – Part 2
By: Moses Abaortae | July 15th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
The guide continues with more combat related tips. If stealth is not the way a player wishes to play then they are under no compulsion to as there are plenty of useful tips for gunplay as well. The first is the emphasis on Headshots, although they may be tricky to start off with mastering the one-shot kill will be of great help later on in the game when the ...
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Uncharted: Golden Abyss tips, tricks and hints – Part 3
By: Moses Abaortae | July 15th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
The guide continues with more combat related tips. With the basic combat out of the way it is now time to move on to the Weapon combinations that work and do not work. Finding the right balance here will make the game all the more enjoyable and in many cases simpler than if one just ran around with the wrong guns in the wrong situations. The basic rule is to...
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Angry Birds coming to consoles this holiday season
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | July 14th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
If you were under the impression that Rovio Mobile’s Angry Birds had dominated every possible space, you were wrong. There was one space that was yet to find itself getting conquered by the slinging feathery action. However, the highly-acclaimed game is all set to invade that particular space as it has been announced by Activision that Angry Birds Trilogy is in the works for ...
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Increased longevity of consoles proving to be a bane for industry, says Square Enix executive
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | July 14th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
The extended life of current-generation consoles is beginning to get the blame for hurting the industry by pushing developers away to other platforms such as mobiles and browsers. The technology director of Square Enix Julien Merceron bluntly stated that Sony and Microsoft were not doing the right thing by hanging on to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 respectively for seven to ten y...
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Dota 2 Heroes – An Introduction to Aurel the Gyrocopter
By: Jason McCarthy | July 13th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
One of the many playable characters in Defense of the Ancient (Dota) 2, Aurel the Gyrocopter is an interesting hero to try out. His abilities are easy to get the hang off, though only the more seasoned players will be able to unlock its true potential. Gyrocopter is an agility hero that thrives as a ganker/semi-carry. Perhaps his greatest strength is his ability to chase down h...
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CBS Films to make a Deus Ex: Human Revolution movie
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | July 13th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
For those who had trouble digesting the news about a video game adaptation of Ubisoft’s highly-acclaimed Assassin’s Creed franchise in the making and a writer getting hired for the God of War movie, here is another intriguing bit of information for them to chew on. CBS Films has acquired the rights to work on Square Enix’s 2011 sci-fi action-adventure video game Deus Ex: ...
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Michael Fassbender to star in film adaptation of Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | July 13th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
Ubisoft’s popular Assassin’s Creed franchise is set to make the jump from video game to big-screen with the X-Men: First Class and Inglourious Basterds star Michael Fassbender to play the lead role as well as co-produce the movie adaption of the game. Commenting on the selection of Fassbender for the main role, the CEO of recently-founded Paris-based Ubisoft Motion Pictures...
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Uncharted: Golden Abyss tips, tricks and hints – Part 1
By: Musa Afridi | July 13th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
News.wishfree.com brings you a list of useful tips and tricks to help you master Bend Studio’s PlayStation Vita title. The Uncharted series is known for being one of the most complete titles in the market today; the game has everything from puzzle solving to shooting, hand-to-hand combat to platforming and some...
