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Sony Pictures has released the first trailer for Adam Sandler movie Pixels. The movie is based on a hit 2010 short of the same name. It stars Adam Sandler, Peter Dinklage and Brian Cox and is directed by Harry Potter and Home Alone’s Chris Columbus. A number of retro game …
Read More »Yakuza keeps PS4 and Vita on top in Japan for a third week, as Mario Party 10 debuts at No.4
Nintendo’s new all-star outing for Mario Party hasn’t been enough to outdo Sega’s latest virtual gangster offering in Japan. According to the latest data from Famitsu, Sega’s Yakuza 0: Chikai no Basho topped the software charts last week. The PS3 release of the title outsold its PS4 counterpart by almost …
Read More »League of Legends featuring in Chinese Windows 10 push
League of Legends is being used to accelerate the adoption of Windows 10 in China thanks to a partnership between Microsoft and Tencent. Microsoft has announced that Tencent will create a Windows 10 universal app for their existing QQ app, which currently has over 800m users in China. League of …
Read More »VIDEO: Nintendo’s level design secrets in four steps
Game Maker's Toolkit explores how Asian philosophy influences 3D Mario games
Read More »One retailer is already taking pre-orders for the Nintendo NX
Gamers in Australia are already able to pre-order Nintendo’s new NX console. EB Games has announced via Facebook that customers are able to lay down an unspecified amount of cash against the largely unspecified console in-stores right now. Note that the Nintendo NX is not only without a price or …
Read More »Raptr to stop tracking console data, become PC-only service
Games-centric tracking and social network Raptr has ditched console support. Until now Raptr has kept track of its members game time across Xbox, PlayStation and PC but in the future it will only track PC activity. When Raptr started out, we offered Steam and XBL achievements and PSN trophy tracking, …
Read More »Windows 10 launching this summer
Chinese games giant Tencent one of several partners helping to roll out new OS in the East
Read More »Nintendo NX is ‘a brand new concept’
Iwata remains tight-lipped about newly announced games device
Read More »First Nintendo smartphone game due out this year
Nintendo’s first titles developed specifically for mobile phones should be out by the end of the year. "Regarding the individual video game titles, when it will be launched, we will be making the announcement when each of those games are ready," boss Satoru Iwata told investors in a Q&A, as …
Read More »Steam purchases now refundable in EU
But users waive rights after download and installation
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