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Aveline’s background: Assassin’s Creed 3: Liberation details flood in
0By: Moses Abaortae | October 19th, 2012 | UncategorizedPart 1: Ubisoft has blown the lid of their upcoming PlayStation Vita title and released a number of intriguing bits of info about the game’s setting, gameplay mechanics and even teased online multiplayer. Ubisoft is hard at work developing a number of titles on multiple consoles. Assassin’s Creed 3 is their biggest project to date and the game is set to release on all major...
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Dress to kill: Assassin’s Creed 3: Liberation details flood in
By: Moses Abaortae | October 19th, 2012 | UncategorizedPart 2: The PlayStation Vita Assassin’s Creed game’s female protagonist will be able to choose from three costumes in order to gain access to or blend into areas that would be difficult to do so otherwise. Ubisoft seems to be giving Liberation its due respect. While many studios would make a portable, half-he...
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Need for Speed dev considering new Burnout and Road Rash games
By: Musa Afridi | October 18th, 2012 | UncategorizedThe developer behind the latest Need for Speed game is considering three options for its next project, including a new shooter, in addition to the adrenaline pumping Burnout and classic Road Rash games. Criterion was a studio known for competing with the Need for Speed brand. There was a time when the Burnout gam...
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Team Fortress 2 takes a stand against rage-quitters
By: Musa Afridi | October 18th, 2012 | UncategorizedValve is clamping down on excessive quitting by players from matches before they are completed with penalties set to be imposed on the culprits. EA should take note and learn something for their FIFA games. Rage quitting is a term used to described the act of leaving a game before its completion due to the fact t...
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The English FA’s latest scapegoat is Video Games
By: Moses Abaortae | October 18th, 2012 | UncategorizedThe FA is set to impose new rules on the England squad in terms the amount of time they can spend playing video games as a part of their soon to be announced new code of conduct. David James is partly to blame. England’s lack of success on the silverware front seems to be putting all kinds of pressure on the En...
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Sony announce Halloween Sale on the PlayStation Store
By: Moses Abaortae | October 17th, 2012 | UncategorizedPlayStation Plus subscribers get an extra discount on select horror titles as well, including the likes of Black Ops 2 zombie DLCs, Dead Space 2 and Resident Evil among the titles on offer as part of the promotion. Halloween is the perfect time for kids and adults alike to discard their usual norms of dressing, which have been enforced by society, and dress up however they like...
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Third-party Retro Wii U Pro Controller is pretty sweet
By: Moses Abaortae | October 17th, 2012 | UncategorizedWhile Nintendo’s own Wii U Pro Controller boasts over 3 days of battery life … or as they put it, over80 hours of non-stop use, which isn’t bad, though many would want to know what the primary controller, the one with the screen, offers in terms of battery life. As is the case with any new piece of hardware, a number of third-party manufacturers attemp...
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Ubisoft allays Wii U GamePad lag concerns
By: Moses Abaortae | October 16th, 2012 | UncategorizedThe Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry developer assures gamers that the GamePad is “really responsive” as worried fans wondered whether streaming content on the pad’s screen would slow down response time and thus ruin the experience with lag, the eternal enemy of the gamer. Lag and gaming together in the same sentence is rarely a good thing as it destroys the overall experie...
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Tomb Raider, Hitman Absolution heading to the Wii U? – Rumour
By: Moses Abaortae | October 16th, 2012 | UncategorizedStraight Right, the studio currently porting Mass Effect 3 on to the Nintendo Wii U, may very well be working to bring a Square Enix title to the console. Could it be Hitman, Tomb Raider or even Deus Ex? There are many sources for news in the video game industry; there is of course the official source, with publi...
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The Unfinished Swan and Payday hit PlayStation Plus
By: Moses Abaortae | October 16th, 2012 | UncategorizedSony is offering premium subscribers to the PlayStation Network service, also known as PlayStation Plus members, early access to The Unfinished Swan and has added Payday: The Heist to the Instant Game Collection, which means it’s free. The latest PlayStation Plus update brings a number of enticing offers for su...
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