Consoles

Sony has announced a new title for Vita that it no doubt hopes will do for Vita what 2006 DS outing Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training did for Nintendo’s machine. Called Smart As, it is described by XDev Europe’s assistant producer Nick Accordino as a social brain-training experience”. Smart As is …

Sony has introduced a Steam-like ‘pre-buy’ feature on PSN. It allows gamers to pay for an unreleased title that is then downloaded and stored on their PS3. When release day finally arrives Sony then unlocks the title from the hard drive and it is available to play immediately. Furthermore, the …

The freshly unleashed Peter Molyneux has done what we’d all knew he’d do – stir the hornets’ nest. In an announcement that the famed developer will be offering analysis of next month’s E3 on Spike TV, the Lionhead founder and former Microsoft Game Studios Europe boss described Nintendo’s upcoming Wii …

We lose count of the number of rumours that come our way and get ignored every day at MCV. But sometimes you just have to bite. That’s because today GoNintendo has run one of the most creative E3 rumours to date. Forget the Next Xbox. Forget PS4. Forget the Valve …

Jonathan Chambers, AV manager at media planning and buying specialist Generation Media, looks at how much impact publishers and platform holders have had on TV advertising so far, how this year’s investments stand up against 2011 and who the top advertisers are… TV remains essential to games and consoles advertising, …

EA has outlined the ways in which it intends to build upon the fantastic success of FIFA 12 with the freshly announced FIFA 13. The game will deliver what EA describes as the most sophisticated artificial intelligence ever achieved for the FIFA franchise”, with tech being shared between both the …

Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition has surpassed 1m units sold globally since its launch, Microsoft has announced. The title has exploded out of the gates, hitting the figure in under a week and leaving all previous XBLA records in its wake. Microsoft’s Major Nelson also mentioned that 5.2m total hours have …

Company to integrate Kinect gestures, report suggests

The age of the 3DS is upon us, so it seems only right that Nintendo moves now to slash the price of its last generation handheld. The DSi will be cut to $99 and its bigger brother, the DSi XL, is to drop to $129. That’s represents a saving of …

A sequel to recent 3DS release Kid Icarus: Uprising looks incredibly unlikely. The 3DS game itself is 25 years in the making, with the original release of the NES game dating back to December 1986. However, after a prolonged development period for Uprising – which was initially presumed to be …