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Countdown begins as Nintendo releases new Wii U commercial on YouTube
0By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | November 4th, 2012 | Uncategorized
The advertising campaign for Nintendo’s next-generation console Wii U is underway, with a brand new trailer hitting the company’s YouTube channel recently. Nintendo of America is less than two weeks away from releasing its high-end console in North America, with November 18 set as the date for the console to hit the shelves in the region. Even though the internet has bee...
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Mass Effect Trilogy hits PlayStation 3 on December 4
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | November 4th, 2012 | Uncategorized
The PlayStation 3 loyalists can finally sit down and relax as the promised Mass Effect Trilogy announced a couple of months backs finally has a release date for the Sony console. According to reports, the three-in-one Mass Effect pack will be making its way to PlayStation 3 on December 4, 2012, making the holiday season even more special for the gamers. Developer BioWare had...
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Uncharted 3 celebrates birthday with a Nathan Drake figure
By: Musa Afridi | November 3rd, 2012 | Uncategorized
Naughty Dog team up with Sideshow Collectibles to bring the Premium Format Figure to the gaming world and is sure to have fans of the series collecting their jaws up from off the floor. When it comes to exclusives, Sony leads the pack with the likes of Killzone, Resistance and Gran Turismo, as well as Heavy Rain...
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Job listings at 2K Czech website suggest new project for next-generation consoles
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | November 2nd, 2012 | Uncategorized
A visit to the jobs sections on 2K Czech reveals that the Mafia studio has plenty of job openings, seeking out new and bold talent for its office its Prague and Brno offices in Czech Republic. There has not been any announcement regarding the studio working on a new game in recent past, which has triggered rumours of the developer working on a new top-secret AAA game. The ...
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The best-selling game in Europe for 2012 is…
By: Moses Abaortae | November 2nd, 2012 | Uncategorized
FIFA reigns supreme in Europe as no less than nine PlayStation 3 titles make it into the top 20 best-selling games for the period January to September 2012. Europe is known as being more of a balanced region in terms of the type of games that are played and usually has a tendency to adopt PlayStation consoles as their primary means of gaming. That trend may be changing slowly t...
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Pokemon battles are still big in Japan as the annual sales chart show
By: Moses Abaortae | November 2nd, 2012 | Uncategorized
Japan: the software sales chart for the period January to October 2012 are in and be it Black or White, Pokemon still rules for many. Japan is its own world when it comes to video game trends, tastes and preferences. There is no guarantee for successful video games from the west to see similar success in Japan as a number of titles have demonstrated. Living up to one of lege...
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Take-Two claims to be doing well despite the challenge presented by aging consoles
By: Jason McCarthy | November 2nd, 2012 | Uncategorized
The demand for the next-generation consoles may be growing in the market, consequently having a negative impact on the sales of both the sales of consoles as well as games. One company, however, claims to be holding its own despite the changing ecosystem and people growing wary of what they are beginning to refer to as old technology. Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick conceded du...
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Take-Two expects development costs of games to fall with arrival of next-generation technology
By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan | November 2nd, 2012 | Uncategorized
A number of video games industry analysts are of the opinion that developing intellectual properties (IPs) would prove to be both costly and complicated. Take-Two, however, does not agree with this notion and instead believes the cost of development will fall with the arrival of next-generation hardware. According to the CEO of the American publisher Strauss Zelnick, the Gra...
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Crysis 3, Watch Dogs and Mafia dev all make the headlines
By: Musa Afridi | November 2nd, 2012 | Uncategorized
With the Holiday Season in full swing a number of studios are taking advantage of the extra attention and focus on the industry to promote and build up some hype for their games including EA, Ubisoft and 2K with news relating to their respective titles. Ubisoft blew audiences away at E3 when they premiered their ...
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FIFA 13’s Wii U features detailed – 2
By: Musa Afridi | November 2nd, 2012 | Uncategorized
Part 2: EA Sports seems to be giving the Wii U GamePad the same treatment it gave to the PlayStation Vita version of the game albeit with much more depth than its portable console counterpart. The ability to use the touch-screen to shoot and pass seems to be taken right out of the PlayStation Vita’s version of ...
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