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Apple will reportedly unveil a pair of new iPad products later this month. The firm will reveal the fifth generation iPad and second generation iPad mini as part of an October 22nd event, according to an AllThingsD report citing multiple sources. The iPad 5 will apparently be thinner and lighter …
Read More »Call of Duty: Ghosts for PC requires 50 GB space; full system requirements here
Nvidia has posted the minimum PC requirements for Call of Duty: Ghosts on its website, and the most startling requirement is a whopping 50 GB of hard disk space. Activision hasn’t announced these specs itself, but the fact that it’s on Nvidia’s website should lend some credibility. Nvidia reckons you’ll …
Read More »Xbox One’s fight for independents
PlayStation has aggressively courted and attracted huge independent developer support in recent months, and even dedicated an entire Gamescom press conference to showcasing indie-made games. But now Xbox is fighting back with its ID@Xbox initiative. MCV learns more from the programme’s director Chris Charla… Why launch this independent developer programme? …
Read More »Ex-Rebellion and Guerrilla devs join City Interactive
Sniper: Ghost Warrior creator City Interactive Games has hired two former developers from Rebellion and Guerrilla Games. Ex-Rebellion senior producer Steve Hart has joined the firm as executive producer, and Paul Robinson has also been recruited to the firm’s senior creative and design team. During his five-year stint at Rebellion, …
Read More »Ambition to ship GPU-less console delayed PS3
Desire to ship console without a graphics chip pushed it back an entire year
Read More »Grand Theft Auto V claims seven Guinness World Records
Rockstar’s GTA V has only been on sale for just over three weeks but the game has already claimed seven world records. The PS3 and Xbox 360 epic sold 11.2m units in its first day, generating revenues of $815.7m/511.8m. It hit $1bn/624.25m after just three days. In the process it …
Read More »Martyn Gibbs to deliver opening keynote at London Games Conference
GAME CEO Martyn Gibbs will opening next month’s London Games Conference with a talk about next-gen games retail. He joins leaders from the likes of Twitter UK, PlayStation, Google in talking at the November 13th event. Gibbs will examine how the evolving digital content landscape is re-defining business strategy through …
Read More »Warface gamers wanted raunchy female characters… and Crytek happily complied
Crytek’s free-to-play shooter Warface recently added a host of female character skins sourced from the game’s existing community. The results are as you might expect – huge, exposed breasts. Which does nothing other than confirm the stereotype of exactly who is playing Crytek’s free-to-play FPS. What’s disturbing is not that …
Read More »GMA 2013: A-Z of the UK’s games media set for the big night
The biggest names in the UK games press will attend tomorrow’s Games Media Awards And if you want to mingle with the media, you need to act fast! Just a couple of trade tickets are left, priced at 150 each. Contact Kathryn.Humphrey@intentmedia.co.uk to find out more. Games press from all …
Read More »Bioshock Infinite drops to Rs 1,499 on PS3
A little over six months after release, Bioshock Infinite has received an official price drop in India. Having been launched at Rs 2,499, one of the year’s most critically games will now be available at just Rs 1,499. However, the new price only applies to the PS3 version of the …
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