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Activision has launched a free companion app for its popular Skylanders franchise. The Skylanders Collection Vault can be downloaded now from Apple’s App Store, providing fans a way to browse and manage collections on their iPhone or iPad. The app lets users compare lists with other players as well, and …
Read More »iBuyPower releases pictures of its first Steam Box
The picture to your right shows what will soon become one of the first commercially available Steam Boxes. It’s made by iBuyPower, which has told The Verge that it hopes to have the device on the market in 2014. It currently runs an early version of Steam OS and, to …
Read More »Pikmin design working on Nintendo’s new IP
Masamichi Abe's current project teased by Tekken's Katsuhiro Harada
Read More »Steam introduces user review system
Valve is offering Steam users a megaphone to voice their opinions about games through Steam Reviews. The new system is about to enter beta, and is set to replace the current Steam Recommendations system – more similar to Facebook ‘likes’ than actual reviews – borrowing the upvote/downvote mechanic of web …
Read More »London developer Hide&Seek closes
Young studio shuts doors after five years, but promises to fill Kickstarter backer rewards
Read More »PS4 gets 10 launch apps in UK
There will be a total of ten apps available on PS4 in the UK when the machine launches. Unlike on Xbox One, users will not be required to have a PlayStation Plus subscription to access the services, although obviously some (such as Netflix) do require users have a specific service …
Read More »Take-Two buys out Icahn
US investor Carl Icahn is no longer involved with Take-Two after the publisher bought out the outspoken exec’s share interest. Take-Two acquired all of Icahn’s stocks at yesterday’s $16.93 closing price, representing a transaction worth a total of $203.5m. As per previous agreements, as a result of the buyout all …
Read More »Activision claims Call of Duty next-gen dominance
Call of Duty: Ghosts has emerged as the big winner in the next-gen games race, Activision has claimed. The publisher says that Ghosts is the best-selling Xbox One and PS4 title at leading retailers” (that’s GameStop, best Buy, Walmart and Target) in North America. It also reckons it’s the most …
Read More »Now Sony America is resetting PSN passwords
Some American PSN users have had their account passwords reset by Sony. Sony Europe last week did the same for some users on this side of Atlantic as a precautionary measure” following the detection of some non-specific irregular activity”. The same it seems is now true in the US. We …
Read More »155 Asda stores offering PS4s from Friday on a first-come, first-served basis
Asda has more stock of PS4 that it will sell to customers on launch day this Friday. 155 Asda stores will be selling the machines from midnight on Thursday. The stock includes the normal 349 machine, plus the Knack bundle (379) and the Call of Duty Ghosts pack (385). The …
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