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Disgraced Sunderland footballer Adam Johnson is being expunged from the world of games. 28-year old Johnson faces a prison sentence after being found guilty of sexual activity with an underage girl. Due to the nature of his crime football game publishers are currently working to remove him from their titles. …
Read More »Now Spencer calms Xbox console upgrade talk
Having distanced himself from comments made about the further merging of Xbox and PC, Phil Spencer has now watered down his stance about possible console hardware upgrading. Spencer last week said that he wanted console hardware to be both backwards and forwards compatible, with Microsoft releasing new hardware capabilities during …
Read More »MAME emulation goes open-source
Long-running emulation project MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) has transitioned to open-source availability after nearly two decades of existence. Popular among video game archivists and retro enthusiasts for its ability to emulate titles from the 1970s up until the modern day, the software was previously released under a modified BSD …
Read More »£250m being invested into Nintendo’s Universal Studios attraction
The planned Nintendo expansion to the Universal Studios theme park in Japan will boast a budget to rival other big-named projects, it has been claimed. The Telegraph reports that the Japanese press are reporting that some 250m is being invested into the project after details were finalised last week. This …
Read More »Overwatch release date leaks; Open beta could gatecrash Battleborn party
An ad seemingly posted on IGN by mistake seems to have revealed the release date for Blizzard’s Overwatch. Reddit spotted an ad for the upcoming multiplayer shooter that carried a release date of May 24th for the title. However, perhaps more interesting is the date it had listed for the …
Read More »Arcade emulator software MAME goes open-source
‘Our aim is to help legal license owners distribute games based on MAME, and to make MAME become a learning tool for developers working on development boards,’ said engineer Miodrag Milanovic
Read More »eSports Industry Awards to hit London November 21st
Industry awards ceremony celebrating the talent in the meteoric international eSports scene to land later this year
Read More »Target Australia enforces plain packaging for R18+ games
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
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