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Upcoming Zelda spin-off Hyrule Warriors Legends will officially introduce a female version of lead hero Link to the franchise. Legends is the expanded release of Zelda-cross-Dynasty Warriors 3DS title Hyrule Warriors, and is set for release on March 25th next year. Linkle is among five new characters set for the …
Read More »Ginx seeking £0.5m in crowdfunding to fuel growth
Games TV channel Ginx has taken to crowdfunding platform Crowdcube in an effort to boost its international presence. The firm is looking for 540,000 from backers to help fund new apps for PS4 and Xbox One, as well as growing the amount of global content it features. Available in the …
Read More »SNES PlayStation hybrid shown powered-on and working
The incredibly rare hardware collaboration between two of the industry’s giants has seemingly been proved real. The ‘SNES PlayStation’ was re-discovered back in July after a Reddit user posted images of the long-lost prototype unit, of which only 200 were made. Created before the original PlayStation, the machine was the …
Read More »Shahid Ahmad is leaving PlayStation UK next month
After ten years, Sony’s UK Strategic Content boss Shahid Ahmad is departing the company. Ahmad took to his blog to announce that he would be leaving the company to return to games development on December 1st 2015. He started working for Sony in 2005 as a technical account manager, before …
Read More »Activision Blizzard opens television and film studio
Activision Blizzard has announced the launch of a new film and television studio to produce adaptations for its various franchises. The publisher has confirmed Call of Duty will get its own multi-movie franchise, while Skylanders is to receive the animated series treatment as Skylanders Academy. Not much is known about …
Read More »Swery65 is taking a break from games development
The creator of Deadly Premonition and D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die has said that he is stepping away from games development for a while. Hidetaka ‘Swery65′ Suehiro’s career dates back to the late 1990s, although he’s best known for cult horror curio Deadly Premonition which was released in 2010. Starting …
Read More »Telltale publishing The Jackbox Party Pack retail release on PlayStation, Xbox
Telltale’s new publishing arm is bringing The Jackbox Party Pack to retail for PlayStation and Xbox platforms this week. The studio known for developing The Walking Dead and Minecraft: Story Mode has partnered with Jackbox Games to bring its popular multiplayer party game to shelves in North America and Europe …
Read More »Konami says missing PES 2016 transfers will ‘take some weeks’ to patch
The long-awaited transfer update for PES 2016 that arrived last week is missing a number of key transfers. Players were already grumpy about having to wait for a month after launch for Konami to finally update the rosters to reflect all changes up to the end of the transfer window. …
Read More »5th Cell hits Fig with free-to-play RPG Anchors in the Drift
Scribblenauts studio 5thCell has taken its upcoming action RPG Anchors in the Drift to Fig in hopes of crowdfunding the title. The campaignfor the free-to-play game is set at $500,000. As of this writing, the developer has raised just over $106,000 from just 111 backers, with still more than three …
Read More »PS4 lifetime sales near 30m
Sony posts $280m profit for last quarter
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