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Tropes vs Women creator Anita Sarkeesian has been subject to another death threat, causing her to cancel a planned public speaking event. Standard Examiner reports that she was due to talk at the Utah State University’s Center for Women and Gender later today until the organisers received an email threatening …
Read More »World of Warcraft subscriptions shoot up by over 600,000 ahead of Warlords of Draenor
It seems that World of Warcraft is regaining some of its previously lost users ahead of its next big expansion. Blizzard announced during its latest earnings calls that its MMO had seen subscriptions jump by over 600,000 ahead of the release of World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor on November …
Read More »Join Intel in London for Droidcon
Android community prepares for UK event later this month
Read More »Chivalry: Medieval Warfare to conquer consoles later this month
First-person medieval combat title Chivalry: Medieval Warfare is coming to last-gen consoles. Originally released on PC two years ago, Torn Banner Studios’ game will make its transition to PS3 and Xbox 360 on October 29th. The game saw up to 36 players battle it out online with swords, bows and …
Read More »Tetris Ultimate lands on 3DS in November
Upcoming Tetris update Tetris Ultimate will launch next month on Nintendo 3DS, publisher Ubisoft has announced. The 3DS version includes four single-player Challenge modes: "Master" has Tetriminos drop instantly and appear at the bottom of the screen, "Rotation Lock" randomizes the orientations of the Tetriminos and freezes them in one …
Read More »Minecraft Lego set images leaked
New images of the upcoming Minecraft-themed Lego sets have leaked, courtesy of Russian Lego retailer Mir Kibikov. Shacknews reports on the retailer’s accidental” leak of the new line prematurely, which reveals images of six upcoming Minecraft Lego sets – including The First Night, The Mine, Workbench, Dragon Edge, The Cave, …
Read More »Peggle 2 out now on PlayStation 4
Peggle 2 is available today for PlayStation 4 owners in Europe and North America, EA and PopCap have announced. The sequel to PopCap’s popular casual title offers single-player offline play, as well as local mutliplayer and two online multiplayer modes with support for up to four players. Peggle 2 had …
Read More »Google says Amazon, and not Microsoft, is its biggest rival
Google chairman Eric Schmidt believes that Amazon is its biggest search competitor. In a speech in Berlin, Schmidt pointed out that internet users are likely to go directly to the retailer when shopping, stating: Many people think our main competition is Bing or Yahoo. But, really, our biggest search competitor …
Read More »Windows 10 gets 1m preview sign-ups
Microsoft has revealed that it has already seen one million installations of the Windows 10 Technical Preview. The preview has been available for just two weeks, butin a blog post,Microsoft has said that users have already sent more than 200,000 pieces of feedback about the new operating system. Microsoft added …
Read More »Killzone: Mercenary updated for PlayStation TV support
PlayStation Vita title Killzone: Mercenary has been updated to support PlayStation TV. Patch 1.11 updates the game so that its touch controls are translated to a user’s PS3 or PS4 controller and introduces a restart-from-checkpoint system, meaning players can quit mid-mission and resume from where they left off. Guerilla says …
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