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The second episode of The Walking Dead Season 2 will launch next week, developer Telltale has announced. The content will launch Tuesday, March 4th on PC and Mac, as well as PS3 in North America. Telltale confirmed PS3 in Europe, Xbox 360 and iOS versions would arrive at a later …
Read More »Online play and other services being shut down on Wii and DS
Nintendo’s Wi-Fi Connect services will shortly be shut down. This means a host of online services enjoyed by Wii and DS users will soon be unavailable including online multiplayer and leaderboards. Affected titles will include the likes of Mario Kart, Smash Bros and Pokemon. Other services due for the chop …
Read More »"Just think of paying 99 cents just to get Mario to jump a little higher"
Hedge fund manager and Nintendo share holder Seth Fischer has urged Nintendo to move into the smartphone market. The Oasis Management founder said in a letter to Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, as republished by The Wall Street Journal, that the platform holder is "well placed to make an immediate entry …
Read More »Smartphone games account for 75% of app store spending
Google Play and iOS games accounted for 75 per cent of app store spending last year. It was a year of major growth for the smartphone sector as areport by IDC and App Annie foundconsumer spend on Google’s Android games store increased by over four times in Q4 2013 compared …
Read More »LEGO The Hobbit gets release date
Warner Bros has given LEGO The Hobbit an April release date. The publisher told Eurogamer that the title will be coming to UK stores on April 11th. It will cover the events of the first two Hobbit films – no plans have been revealed for adapting the final part of …
Read More »Call of Duty: Elite to close this Friday
Activision’s social network for Call of Duty is to be canned. The stat tracking service was introduced with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Call of Duty: Black Ops II. However, it received little use in new release Ghosts, which instead favoured the new Clan Wars system. The publisher …
Read More »PS4 sells 322,000 units in two days in Japan
Sony's latest console beats early sales of PS3
Read More »Rogen and Goldberg to co-direct Console Wars film adaptation
Comedy writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are set to write and co-direct a movie adaptation of Blake J. Harris’s upcoming book, Console Wars. Rogen and Goldberg’s credits include penning the scripts of comedy films Superbad and Knocked Up. Polygonfurther reports that Sony Pictures will assist with the development of …
Read More »WWE Network on-demand app launches on PS4, PS3, and Xbox 360
The WWE Network app has arrived on PS3, PS4, and Xbox 360 consoles, the professional wrestling company has announced. The subscription-based service, revealed back in January, packs access to over a thousand hours of on-demand video content across WWE’s lifetime. Along with classic WWE/WWF match-ups, archives include WCW and ECW …
Read More »Abertay Uni opens Europe’s largest PlayStation teaching lab
Europe’s largest teaching laboratory with access to PlayStation development kits has been opened today at Abertay University in Dundee. Abertay’s has now permanently installed 30 new PlayStation Vita development kits, adding to its existing stock of PS3 and PS4 dev kits. And students have access to all of the hardware …
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