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Xbox 360 sales double in Japan following Halo 4 release
0By: Moses Abaortae | November 26th, 2012 | Uncategorized
That’s not saying much though as 343 Industries’ latest game debuted in at number three spot in the Japanese software sales charts. The latest charts are in with plenty to talk about on both the software and hardware front as an Xbox 360 game manages to make it into the top three for the first time in eons and Sony will disappointed with the Vita’s sales figures…again. ...
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No Online Pass for Agent 47’s Hitman Absolution
By: Moses Abaortae | November 26th, 2012 | Uncategorized
Square Enix decides to assassinate the feature, making online multiplayer available to both first-time and pre-owned gamers alike for no extra cost. Ubisoft cancelled the Online Pass for Driver: San Francisco and it seems that Square Enix is going down the same route as well. The Online Pass was accepted by publishers as they saw a new way to create a post-launch revenue str...
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BioWare rewarding those with Mass Effect 2 in their Black Ops 2 copy
By: Moses Abaortae | November 26th, 2012 | Uncategorized
The developer is offering the entire Mass Effect trilogy to the first fifty people who found one CD of Black Ops 2 and one of Mass Effect 2 when they purchased the latest Call of Duty game. The world seems to be a better place after a in a bizarre twist to already bizarre events. Black Ops 2 is set to shatter records set by its Infinity Ward predecessor, Modern Warfare 3, as Ac...
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The top three PlayStation Move moments
By: Moses Abaortae | November 26th, 2012 | Uncategorized
Unsure about the Move, so were we, until we used them in these sequences. They may be few and far between but they are worth experiencing. So with over 15-million PlayStation Moves sold worldwide, thus far, chances are that are a number of gamers who have tried Sony’s motion controller. However, for the core gamer switching from the controller to the Move for first-person sho...
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PlayStation Vita gets Uncharted: Fight for Fortune spin-off
By: Moses Abaortae | November 26th, 2012 | Uncategorized
Card based game set to be released for the portable console as both a standalone and an expansion for Uncharted: Golden Abyss in early December. Successful games and series means a number of things, one of which is the inevitable spin off that is bound to rear its head sooner or later. While the games may be outsourced to other studios for release on different platforms, such a...
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The PlayStation Vita v2.00 firmware update brings a host of changes
By: Musa Afridi | November 26th, 2012 | Uncategorized
Sony detail how the new update will improve the console’s performance as well as the new features it brings, most notably, PlayStation Plus. Already having gone live, the update will bring changes, tweaks and enhancements on a number of fronts. Starting things off with the Browser, which has been optimized to improve “the display speed of Web pages”, the ability to “...
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ZombiU devs consider DLC for title
By: Musa Afridi | November 26th, 2012 | Uncategorized
Ubisoft isn’t ruling out the possibility of releasing the downloadable content for their post-zombie-apocalypse first-person shooter survival-horror title. You can’t get a more precise description of the game than that! The Nintendo Wii U is out and as the world waits for the official sales figures of the console to be released developers are already taking a look at the ne...
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Mirror’s Edge 2, where is it?
By: Moses Abaortae | November 25th, 2012 | Uncategorized
The original Mirror’s Edge game was released in 2009 and garnered a bit of a cult following and many are wondering when EA will announce the widely rumoured sequel. It was different, it was risky and in the end, not many people bought it but the few that did and understood what the game was trying to, do spent endless hours traversing the game’s world looking for the perfec...
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Call of Duty’s dominance is killing innovation in the industry
By: Moses Abaortae | November 25th, 2012 | Uncategorized
Part 3: Spec Ops: The Line is just one example of a great game marred by a tacked on multiplayer component to compete with Call of Duty, but it’s not the latter’s fault. The multiplayer in Spec Ops: The Line demonstrated the publishers are willing to push developers into places they do not want to go in terms of the level of freedom they have with their titles. The game was...
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Call of Duty’s dominance is killing innovation in the industry
By: Moses Abaortae | November 24th, 2012 | Uncategorized
Part 2: every studio is copying Call of Duty’s formula and we take a look at and highlight the various instances as to how. No matter which game on takes a look at, it has been influenced in one way or the other by Activision’s Call of Duty series. While many of the staple multiplayer features and single-player set pieces have inspired other developers, the formula’s succ...
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