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The third Riddick game unearthed online last week is real… but is also likely not what you expected. Eurogamer reports that Riddick: The Merc Files is due out on iOS on Friday September 20th. Its development team includes some who previously worked on Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay …
Read More »Gears of War on Xbox One? Microsoft is hopeful
Microsoft hopes that it can one day bring its incredibly successful Xbox 360 franchise Gears of War to Xbox One. There’s bad news, though – it doesn’t sound like there are any plans in place at the moment. Gears of War is developed by Epic Games, and they’ve been our …
Read More »Why the Reeperbahn embraced games
Can a Hamburg music festival become the SXSW of Europe?
Read More »Ouya pulls funding from questionable Free The Games Fund candidate
Potential Ouya game Dungeons the Eye of Draconus has been unceremoniously booted from Ouya’s Free The Games Fund program following suspicious activity on Kickstarter. The move can be interpreted as Ouya finally responding to the increasing criticism it has endured for its lackadaisical stance toward what appear to be some …
Read More »Gamers petition for sacking of GameSpot writer who criticised GTAV for misogyny
This is why the world thinks video games are all made for silly little boys. A petition has been started – and thankfully subsequently pulled – on Change.org calling for the sacking of a GameSpot writer who in her 9/10 Grand Theft Auto V review highlighted the game’s questionable attitude …
Read More »PS4 launching in Asia two months before Japan
Sony's next-gen console coming to South Korea and Singapore this December
Read More »"It’s time to stop pointing fingers at games"
Games industry representative and trade body UKIE has hit back at The Mirror’s headline blaming Call of Duty for a US Navy base massacre. The story ‘Driven to Kill by Call of Duty?’ says that Aaron Alexis went on a gun rampage after becoming addicted to violent video games. But …
Read More »Grand Theft Auto V "is going to destroy the good reputation" of Scottish town Hawick
A councillor for the Scottish town of Hawick has reacted badly to the news that its name has been used for a district in Grand Theft Auto V. The BBC reports that Los Santos’ Hawick is, unlike the real-world Scottish Borders town, a druggie commune of sorts. The name was …
Read More »New SimCity DLC to give 80% of revenue to Red Cross
The next piece of DLC for EA’s SimCity will allow gamers to improve the real-world as well as their fictional hangouts. The Red Cross Relief Centre DLC will, as the name suggests, add a Red Cross Relief Centre and two branded vehicles to a user’s city that will appear in …
Read More »Wii Sports in for HD Wii U re-release as Wii Fit U goes free
Nintendo has announced a planned digital release for an HD Wii U version of Wii classic Wii Sports. It will be called Wii Sports Club and can be purchased in a number of ways, CVG reports. All of the five included sports – tennis, bowling, golf, baseball and boxing – …
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