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Criterion Games take over the Need for Speed franchise
0By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | June 27th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
There is a famous saying: if you can’t beat them, join them. However, Criterion Games has gone one step further and taken complete control of the renowned Need for Speed franchise, once their greatest rival in the racing games genre. During an interview with Game Informer magazine, Criterion Games vice president Alex Ward conceded that Electronic Arts (EA) Games had entrusted...
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Future of Resistance franchise appears dim, Sony admits no definitive plans for series
By: Jason McCarthy | June 27th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
The Resistance franchise seems to have reached the end of the road as Sony suggests it has no clear plans of keeping the sci-fi horror series of first-person and third-person shooter alive. During an interview with Official PlayStation Magazine UK, the online producer of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) Daniel Brooke came out and bluntly stated that while it had been a...
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PlayStation 3 firmware update v.4.20 to go live within a few hours
By: Jason McCarthy | June 26th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
Sony is all set to release update v4.20 for PlayStation 3’s operating system in not more than a few hours from now. The latest firmware update will make several minor improvements to the system and also resolve a few issues that had emerged after the release of firmware update v4.10 back in February, 2012. As per the information revealed, the upcoming software update will ...
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Crytek warms up to free-to-play model, projects it as the future of consoles
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | June 26th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli believes the age of free-to-play games is just around the corner regardless of the current attitude of game industry giants such as Microsoft and Sony towards the new business model. Executive of the European gaming giant that brought us gems like Crysis and Far Cry claimed that his company was boldly going along with the shifting trend instead of resisti...
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Sony admits fault, explains why PS Vita was neglected at E3
By: Jason McCarthy | June 26th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
Sony Worldwide Studios’ President Shuhei Yoshida conceded that it may not have been the best move by the company to considerably neglect PlayStation (PS) Vita at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) that went down earlier this month in Los Angeles. During a recent interview with VG247, Yoshida came out and bluntly talked about the absence of PS Vita at their E3 conference, ...
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Eidos President Ian Livingstone claims demand for single-player experience is immortal
By: Jason McCarthy | June 26th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
President of Eidos Interactive Ltd. Ian Livingstone believes the demand for single-player games will never cease to exist. The gaming industry has been showing a significant transformation in recent times, with the focus of developers shifting from hardcore gamers to more casual players. The industry finds themselves staring at a whole new market to cater to, which in turn have...
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Nintendo reveals release date and price of 3DS XL for North American market
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | June 26th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
Nintendo has confirmed that a super-sized version of its portable console 3DS will be hitting the shelves in North America this August Going by the official name of Nintendo 3DS XL, the new system will be releasing in North America on August 19 at a retail price of $199.99. The launch date coincides with the release date of “New Super Mario Bros. 2,” the first-ever 3DS game...
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Resident Evil 6 is more than double the length of its predecessor
By: Moses Abaortae | June 26th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
Capcom’s Yoshiaki Hirabayashi, the game’s producer, claims that the game will last gamers much longer than Resident Evil 5 did, with there being three separate storylines and all. Resident Evil 6 has been termed as Capcom’s most ambitious project yet, as not only is the studio investing heavily in the title and expects it to emulate the likes of the Call ...
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Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified details emerge
By: Moses Abaortae | June 26th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
Walmart pulls the PlayStation Vita game’s description but not before the eagle-eyed gaming community could spread the news regarding the plot details and features about the upcoming game. Sony proudly announced that the Call of Duty franchise would be debuting on their second generation portable gaming console, the PlayStation Vita, later on this year with Black Ops: Declassi...
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Xbox 720 price and release date leaked?! – Rumour
By: Moses Abaortae | June 26th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
Microsoft’s next generation secret may be out of the bag as a leaked document not only shows the game’s price and release date but also that the console will use Blu-Ray and augmented reality. The next generation console race is heating up by the day and although no announcements were made by the likes of Sony and Microsoft, one could tell that both platform developers were...
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Polytron warns Fez patch may corrupt saved games
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | June 26th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
Developer Polytron has advised Fez players against downloading the recently released patch in order to protect their save games from breaking. The independent software developers have acknowledged the gravity of the issue and already started working on resolving the issue, hinting that it may take up to two months. Until then, the players have been recommended to stay clear of ...
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The PlayStation Vita is better than the Wii U tablet – Sony exec
By: Moses Abaortae | June 26th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
Scott Rhode claims that the fact that the Wii U does not have a processor limits its potential and use when compared with the Vita and how it could be used alongside consoles. The Vice President of Sony Worldwide Studios, Scott Rhode, has blasted Nintendo on their lack of processor in their upcoming Wii U controller. Rhode who previously commented on how Sony was still takin...
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Watch Dogs the movie! Ubisoft buying movie domains, sparking rumours
By: Moses Abaortae | June 26th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
A big-screen Hollywood adaption of Watch Dogs may be in the works as Ubisoft buys up domains online, or it could just be forward thinking, either way everyone is excited. There has been a trend in recent years of popular video game franchises receiving the Hollywood treatment and being adapted to film. More often than not however, the excitement, immersion and atmosphere of the...
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EA Games executive Peter Moore expects to find microtransactions in every game in near future
By: Jason McCarthy | June 25th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
Chief Operating Officer of Electronic Arts (EA) Games Peter Moore has predicted that microtransactions will become a norm in games in about five to ten years’ time. Sharing his views with Kotaku at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) earlier this month, the top industry executive had said that the gaming industry was undergoing massive transformation. A number of different...
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GTA 5 unlikely to release on the Wii U, along with other mature Rockstar games
By: Musa Afridi | June 24th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
Strauss Zelnick, the CEO of Take-Two games, believes that although Rockstar will develop games for the Nintendo Wii U they will not be aimed to cater for mature audiences. Rockstar is known for making some of the best games in the industry as well as managing to stir up the most controversy at the same time. Its biggest franchises include the Grand Theft Auto series, which has ...
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Ghost Recon Commander sneaks unnoticed onto Facebook
By: Musa Afridi | June 24th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
The first hardcore game makes its way on to the popular social platform and is directly linked with players’ progress in Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. Ghost Recon Commander is a game that not many users of the popular social networking site, Facebook, will be aware of, however, according to those who have played the game, it is definitely worth a try. The game is like nothi...
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Dishonored will take at least 12 hours to complete excluding side quests
By: Moses Abaortae | June 24th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
The game’s developer, Arkane Studios, has announced that gamers can complete their upcoming game in around 12-14 hours It seems that Bethesda has a habit of announcing how quickly their games can be finished and it turns out that instead of having the developers run through the game at a blistering pace, the developer, Arkane Studios, has simply announced that the game can be...
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Black and White Nintendo Wii U models rumoured for launch
By: Moses Abaortae | June 24th, 2012 |News, Uncategorized
Apparently Nintendo seem to want to give fans choice when it comes to the colour of their next-gen console as a retail listing hints at both a black and a white model of the Wii U for release. Nintendo is set to be the first out of the blocks as the next-gen race kicks off having already shown off their console in not one but two E3 Press Conferences so far. ...
