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It’s been quiet on the Wii U front since E3, but tomorrow, finally, Nintendo will reveal all. The platform holder has confirmed – via a tweet sent by Nintendo president Satoru Iwata – that tomorrow’s Nintendo Direct announcement will include the price, release date and ‘other information’. The firm is …
Read More »Indie hit Terraria coming to XBlA and PSN
World-building adventure game has sold more than 3,000 copies a day since release last year
Read More »Bohemia says it would "be stupid" not to bring DayZ to Xbox Live Arcade
An Xbox 360 version of zombie survival hit DayZ is looking a certainty. Developer Bohemia Interactive is overseeing the official development of a standalone version of DayZ, which started life as a fan-made mod for its war shooter Arma II. But logic dictates, it admits, that it would be sound …
Read More »REVIEW: Steam’s Big Picture shows Valve sees the big picture for retail
There’s not much innovation in Steam’s new Big Picture mode. But there are plenty of elegant answers here to questions few are asking about the future of selling games. A lot had already been written about Big Picture mode yesterday before it even went live in beta late last night. …
Read More »PSP was overrun by ports admits Sony
A lot of content was 'thrown over' from the PS2 by developers to the handheld, says marketing VP
Read More »Large Sony dev team supporting Skyrim for PS3
But console giant cannot promise any kind of resolution or timeline to bug fixes, says VP Adam Boyes
Read More »Female gamers are 4x more likely to be harassed online than men
The sad truth of sexism amongst on line gamers has been laid bare by a new report. A study published on PriceCharting, which surveyed over 800 online gamers, says that 63.3 per cent of all female participants had been taunted or harassed while playing online. Common slurs included ‘c*nt’, ‘bitch’, …
Read More »Gaming tablet Wikipad heading to GameStop in US
The US arm of retailer GameStop has confirmed its intention to stock upcoming gaming tablet PC Wikipad. The device includes an attachable console-style controller housing that includes two analogue sticks, d-pad and four face buttons that sit either side of its 10.1” screen. Inside is a quad-core processor, while memory …
Read More »Football Manager 2013 is coming – complete with accessible Classic mode
A brand new accessible Classic Mode is the headline feature of the freshly announced Football manager 2013. Described by publisher Sega as a seismic shift” in the series, FM2013’s Classic Mode offers an alternative, less time-consuming” game type that is hoped will appeal to those who have until now found …
Read More »Wii U version of Ghost Recon Online "on hold"
It was presented alongside the Wii u hardware itself by Nintendo at E3, but it looks like Ghost Recon Online may now never reach the console. Videogamer reports that the Nintendo SKU is on hold” for the machine, with the dev pouring all of its resources into the PC version. …
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