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An Australian retailer has taken steps to reduce the appeal of games designed for those aged 18 and above. In much the same way as some territories have enforced the use of plain packaging for cigarettes, Attack of the Fanboy reports that Target is now displaying games with an R18+ …
Read More »Far Cry Primal holds Twilight Princess HD from No1
The latest entry in Ubisoft’s Far Cry series holds fast at No.1 in the UK this week. The Stone Age survival game saw a 64 per cent drop in sales as a PC version launched alongside its PS4 and Xbox One brethren. The title holds off competition from Nintendo’s re-release …
Read More »Job losses strike Three Rings Design as part of Sega mobile layoffs
Sega Networks division also sheds staff in response to the ‘hyper-competitive’ market
Read More »Spintires returns to Steam with bug fix
Troubled mud sim Spintires is once again available on Steam, complete with a fix for the title’s controversial bug. First we apologize again for the recent issue causing crashing of spintires and the delay in resolving this,” Oovee said. We are pleased to say we have now released a fix …
Read More »Nintendo was developing a transforming Arwing Amiibo
A third Amiibo was at one stage due to join the upcoming Falco and Fox figures in the Star Fox range. We were working on a couple of ideas for the game for well over a year,” Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto told Game Informer. There was one point where we …
Read More »Microsoft responds to Sweeney’s rallying cry
Windows 10 is not an attempt to close off the world of PC gaming to third parties, Microsoft has said. This morning Epic founder Tim Sweeney launched a scathing attack on Microsoft’s Windows 10, claiming that its Universal Windows Platform was the first apparent step towards locking down the consumer …
Read More »Project Guard gets a Star Fox makeover and is out next month
Shigeru Miyamoto’s Wii U game Project Guard will launch next month, only with a new name. Star Fox Guard is a co-operative security guard sim. One player controls a gun using the Wii U gamepad, while everyone else looks at the TV screen that shows multiple security camera screens. The …
Read More »Riot and Activision make Fortune’s ‘100 Best Companies to Work For’ list
The creators of League of Legends and Call of Duty have once again made it into Fortune’s ‘100 Best Companies to Work For’ league table. Riot Games features in 39th place, down from 13 last year. Stats show that 23 per cent of its workforce is female and that its …
Read More »Oculus Rift will support Mac ‘if Apple ever release a good computer’
Support for the Oculus Rift on Mac will only happen when Apple ups the GPU performance of its machines, Palmer Luckey has said. The Oculus CEO was speaking toShack Newswhen he revealed that the ball for VR support was entirely in Apple’s court, and that Oculus would love to support …
Read More »Monster Hunter X is coming to Europe as Monster Hunter Generations
The next Monster Hunter will reach 3DS this summer, Nintendo has announced. Monster Hunter Generations is, according to the company, ‘the most customisable Monster Hunter experience to date’. The title went by the name Monster Hunter X in Japan. Monster Hunter is one of the most popular game franchises in …
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