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GAME is now selling the White PS4 Destiny bundle for the same RRP of a normal PS4. The console was on sale 379.99 but can now be bought for a penny below 350. The price cut follows a mini-price war over the normal black PS4 destiny bundle, which is available …
Read More »Clones descend on Flappy Bird creator’s new game Swing Copters
Swing Copters is the new game from Dong Nguyen, but good luck finding it. Not that the game isn’t available – it is, both on iOS and Google Play. But as The Guardian points out, clones of the game were so quick to arrive that some were even released before …
Read More »Horror games terrify in Cologne
A few years ago, horror games were a rarity. Even the big horror IP such as Dead Space and Resident Evil were abandoning scares in favour of action. That’s been changing this year, and Gamescom was filled with creepy games designed to scare the pants of gamers. The Evil Within …
Read More »Sierra is back as indies conquer Gamescom
Once again Gamescom became the home of indie development. There were a number of blockbuster game reveals, certainly. And despite the slew of indie titles, not one of them made it on to the shortlist for Gamescom’s official Game of the Show. Nevertheless, it was the range of inventive indie …
Read More »Microsoft withdraws support for F2P Xbox 360 RPG Ascend: Hand of Kul
Ascend: Hand of Kul will have its Xbox 360 servers switched off in November, Microsoft has said. The free-to-play Xbox 360 RPG was released in September and then subsequently on PC in May but has already been removed from the Xbox Marketplace. Signal Studios must regretfully announce that despite our …
Read More »Xbox One vs PlayStation 4: The battle of the exclusives
Microsoft came out fighting at Gamescom this year. If the European team was lacking any confidence after nine months in which PlayStation had dominated, and Microsoft had made wide-sweeping job cuts, there was no sign of it in Cologne. The big blockbusters such as Fable Legends, Halo, Quantum Break, Evolve …
Read More »Amazon UK: FIFA 15 dominates Gamescom
Yesterday, we published a list from Amazon that revealed the games that enjoyed the biggest pre-order spikes during Gamescom. Project CARS and Wii U apparently performed best in terms of percentage increases. Of course, although that shows the latest movers and shakers, it doesn’t really mean anything in terms of …
Read More »Assassin’s Creed Memories launches on iOS
Ubisoft has released Assassin’s Creed mobile spin-off game Assassin’s Creed Memories onto Apple’s App Store for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch devices. The free-to-play title features card battles across different periods of the franchise, such as Renaissance Italy and Colonial America (along with new areas, including Feudal Japan and Imperial …
Read More »The Walking Dead Season 2 finale hits next week
The concluding episode of The Walking Dead Season 2 will launch across all platforms next week, Telltale has announced. The episode will launch worldwide August 26th on PC and Mac, as well as in North America for PS3 and Vita. Xbox 360 gets its release on August 27th, alongside PS3 …
Read More »Motion sickness issues cause developer to abandon Oculus Rift support
Lunar Studios has ditched plans to bring its upcoming space adventure title Routine to Oculus Rift due to the extreme” motion sickness caused by play testing the game. The developer posted the news in a status update on the game’s Steam community page – explaining that while the game is …
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