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Nintendo has confirmed Wii U and 3DS titles will be able to offer cross-play support with other consoles, handhelds and mobile devices. Speaking with VG247, a Nintendo representative backed indie studio Ripstone’s recent claim that the company had given the feature the go-ahead for its title Pure Chess. We can …
Read More »Sony: Brazil’s $1800 PS4 not good for our consumers or our brand
Sony has responded to the inevitably poor consumer reaction to its recent announcement that the PlayStation 4 will cost the equivalent of nearly $2k when it launches in Brazil. Polygon reports on a translated PlayStation Brazil blog posted by Sony Latin America general manager Mark Stanley, who details why the …
Read More »Xbox One headset adapter delayed until 2014
Turtle Beach has claimed that Microsoft has delayed its Xbox One headset adapter peripheral until 2014. The result is that the headphones specialist isn’t able to release its XO Four and XO Seven headsets until Q1 2014. "Microsoft has informed its partners in the Xbox One console launch that the …
Read More »Ubisoft is planning a digital revolution
Ubisoft’s recent Digital Days event showed the publisher has its sights firmly set on digital, but not in all the ways you might expect. When EMEA executive director Alain Corre took to the stage to open the show, he set high ambitions for the company’s digital growth, outting a goal …
Read More »The end of an era – Nintendo stops Wii production in Japan
Nintendo of Japan has confirmed that it has ceased production of the Wii. CVG spotted an addition to the console’s product page on the NoJ website that simply says ‘manufacturing has ended’. The same page earlier this month carried the message ‘manufacturing is scheduled to end soon’. That means that …
Read More »OPINION: Street date crisis says it all about retail’s future
Worrying about broken street dates might seem like a very Old World problem to many. But ‘tiny‘ issues like this matter more and more as games retail fights for a bigger part to play in the release of big titles. These days anyone can launch a game, but it’s not …
Read More »Toy retailers back Skylanders
The Entertainer, WHSmith, and Toymaster are among the retailers who will be selling video games in the run up to Christmas this year. Those stores, along with Fenwicks, Bentalls and Harrods began offering Skylanders: Swap Force toys after its release last week (Friday October 18th). Activision UK managing director Roy …
Read More »Poor Wii U sales behind reason not to bring Need for Speed Rivals to console
Need for Speed: Most Wanted did not put in the commercial performance on Wii U that EA was hoping for. And that, according to the game’s creative director Craig Sullivan, is the reason why the publisher is not bringing the upcoming Need for Speed Rivals to Nintendo’s machine. We did …
Read More »Warface now available in Europe and America
Crytek’s free-to-play PC browser FPS Warface is now available in Europe and America. Also going live in said regions today is Crytek’s equally as colourfully named GFACE network, which users will be signed up to if they play Warface. "Our goal with Warface has always been to show that free-to-play …
Read More »Windows 8.1 update causing mouse lag in some games – report
The long-awaited Windows 8.1 update seems to have brought with it more than just a Start menu. There are claims on Reddit that the OS update has also introduced some unwelcome mouse lag, with titles such as Deus Ex Human Revolution, STALKER and Valve games among those that are affected. …
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