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EA confirms Battlefield 3 Premium sales hit 800,000 in first two weeks
0By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | July 2nd, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
Electronic Arts (EA) has confirmed that the paid-for downloadable content (DLC) Battlefield Premium for Battlefield 3 has attracted 800,000 subscriptions in the first two weeks since its launch on June 4. In an interview with USA Today, EA Games Label boss Patrick Soderlund revealed that the DLC has already driven $40 million in revenue. The add-on pack is priced at $50 for Pla...
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Hindu deities in SMITE stirs controversy, Hi-Rez COO confirms no plans to use Abrahamic figures
By: Jason McCarthy | July 2nd, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
Hi-Rez Studios has confirmed that it will not be introducing Jewish, Christian and Islamic figures to its deity-based multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game SMITE. The studio has shown a lot of boldness by using deities and figures from various religions as playable characters and creating a scenario where they have to combat each other in SMITE. Deities from the Hindu ...
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Mobile a boon rather than a bane for consoles and PC, says DICE general manager
By: Jason McCarthy | July 2nd, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
DICE general manager Karl Magnus Troedsson believes that the demand for console and PC games are not under threat because of the booming mobile gaming space. In an interview with Edge, Troedsson asserted that the two gaming platforms are not posing a threat to the popularity of the other, but are instead aiding each other by alluring more people towards video games. "People ...
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Call of Duty: Black Ops for the Vita is actually classified
By: Musa Afridi | July 2nd, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
Treyarch admit they are in the dark as to which studio is developing Black Ops: Declassified for the PlayStation Vita, while remaining tight lipped on whether or not the game would be released for the Nintendo Wii U. Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified has a lot riding on it for both Sony and Activision. The game is the first title from the studio for the PlayStation Vita and...
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Gran Turismo 5 gets fresh DLC, a free car and a not so free track
By: Moses Abaortae | July 2nd, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
Polyphony Digital is continuing to support its PlayStation 3 exclusive racing simulator, Gran Turismo 5, by announcing yet another DLC Pack for the game. Gran Turismo 5 has been released for well over a year. The game hit stores in November 2010 and has undergone a host of changes thanks to over 13 minor updates as well as one major update since then. At the same time the de...
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Activision shuts down Radical Entertainment, assures Prototype 2 to hit PC on July 24
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | July 2nd, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
The failure of Prototype 2 to find broad commercial audience has resulted in an effective demise of the game’s developer Radical Entertainment. Owned by Activision, the studio has been instructed to cease development of its own games immediately and instead support other projects that the publisher is currently working on. A significant reduction has also been made in the stu...
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New Mass Effect 3 endings to “add value” to the game and the series
By: Moses Abaortae | July 2nd, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
BioWare’s Casey Hudson, the game’s executive producer, explained that the development team’s passion, fan feedback and adding value to the franchise was the reason they changed the endings. Mass Effect fans were left raging after they ended the latest game in the series, where none of the three endings that players could unlock, based on their decisions and actions during...
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The Amazing Spider-Man takes on Batman in the UK Charts
By: Moses Abaortae | July 2nd, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes and The Amazing Spider-Man both debuted in the United Kingdom last week and began an epic battle for the top spot in the video game sales chart, but who came out on top? It has been another seven days since the last time wishfree.com took a look at the charts and it is time now to once again delve into the sales figures to see which game reigned s...
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BioWare admits there was some feedback they couldn’t address
By: Moses Abaortae | July 2nd, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
The Mass Effect developers conceded that there was some feedback they could not address regarding the endings of the game. Mass Effect is one of the current generation’s best selling and loved series with the three games selling in the millions. The series centres around the game’s protagonist, Sam Shepard, whose gender is up to the player to decide, as he or she embarks on...
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LittleBigBioShock? LittleBigPlanet Vita pre-orders get BioShock content
By: Moses Abaortae | July 2nd, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
PlayStation’s cutest icon is making his way on to Sony’s second-generation portable gaming console as Sack Boy makes his debut on the PlayStation Vita with a bit of help from BioShock. Sony has a bit of a problem on their hands as their second-generation of portable gaming console, the PlayStation Vita, is struggling on the sales front. Although the consumer electronics gia...
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Rare looking into “more natural conversation” for the Kinect
By: Musa Afridi | July 2nd, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
The developer behind Kinect Sports and Kinect Sports 2 is working towards advancing the Kinect’s voice and speech recognition capabilities. Nintendo introduced the concept of motion controlled gaming into the mainstream as their Wii console was based on the concept. To everyone’s surprise the console outsold both the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 as gamers, both core and c...
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Microsoft explain Ryse’s absence from E3
By: Musa Afridi | July 2nd, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
CryTek’s ambitious Kinect brawler was a notable absentee from this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo but both the publisher and the developer have stated that the game is still in development. In terms of motion control, the Nintendo Wii remains the king as it introduced the phenomenon to the mainstream and made a couple billion dollars out of it. Microsoft and Sony took...
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Assassin’s Creed PC release date “Still to be announced” – Ubisoft
By: Musa Afridi | July 2nd, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
The game’s developer refuses to specify the release date for the PC version of Assassin’s Creed 3, although reports indicate that the game will be leap of faith-ing onto Windows sometime in November. One of the biggest franchises in the current generation of video game consoles, Assassin’s Creed never fails to disappoint to show up with a new instalment every year. While ...
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Best Buy, GameStop launch $99 Xbox 360 console
By: Musa Afridi | July 2nd, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
A 4GB console for under $100 available from both retailers in a contract deal, which ultimately requires consumers to pay $40 more than the market price over two years. Microsoft is looking to get an Xbox 360 console into every household in the United States of America as it has now allowed retailers to offer the $99 Xbox 360 console package. Two major US retailers, Best Buy an...
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ESL introduces major changes for season seven of IEM at Gamescom
By: Jason McCarthy | June 30th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
Electronic Sports League’s (ESL) Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) will feature a number of changes in season seven that is scheduled to get underway at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, from August 15-19. The changes range from the number of official games for the latest season to the removal of a game that had been a part of IEM ever since its inception seven year ago, Counter-Strike...
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Konami admits mistake, concedes Castlevania: Lords of Shadow DLC was not planned
By: Jason McCarthy | June 30th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
Konami’s production head Dave Cox has admitted that the downloadable content (DLC) for Castlevania: Lords of Shadows was released against the better judgement of the company. Talking to Gameranx recently, Cox explained that they had never planned on making a DLC for the Castlevania reboot released in 2010. However, the excellent reception to the game took the senior managemen...
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Renowned creative director Clint Hocking quits LucasArts
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | June 30th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
LucasArts creative director Clint Hocking has called it quits after sticking with the company for two years, revealing that he is now moving on to something new. The former employee of LucasArts broke the news on his personal blog, conceding that he has already found himself new work and currently in the process of moving out of San Francisco, California. However, the blog u...
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South Korean Shutdown Law challenged in court by gaming companies and parents
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | June 30th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
The constitutionality and validity of South Korea’s Shutdown Law is being challenged in the court by two groups. The first of these groups comprises of Korean game makers such as NCsoft, NeoWiz and Nexon, while the second group represents both parents and teenagers. The two groups have taken a stand against the law that was introduced by the government in November last yea...
