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Read More »Apple hit by new Chinese workforce allegations
Advocacy group China Labour Watch has laid a fresh set of allegations at the feet of Apple regarding the conditions placed upon its Chinese workforce. Bloomberg reports that the organisation has accused Apple’s Taiwanese supplier Pegatron Corp of using underage workers, paying insufficient wages and forcing employees to work overtime”. …
Read More »Disney kills off licensed games with Infinity
Entertainment behemoth Disney has taken yet another step away from the licensed video games market. The firm will instead promote upcoming films with content for toy/game hybrid Disney Infinity, which is due on August 23rd. Disney has not released games based on its major blockbusters Monsters University or The Lone …
Read More »3DS – The Console of the Year
Nintendo has revealed its plan to make 3DS this year’s biggest games console. As disclosed by MCV last week, 3DS sales for the year are closing in on PS3 and 360. It has been the best-selling UK console for almost six weeks, and more 3DS titles have been sold for …
Read More »US media rounds on Minecraft, dubs it ‘Minecrack’
One of the most successful and creative games of recent times has become the bizarre target of the US media. As expertly rounded up by Kotaku, this video shows the efforts gone to by the US media to identify Minecraft as the current evil polluting the minds of poor, innocent, …
Read More »Battlefield 4 could also allow for cross-gen stats transfer
Players of Battlefield 4 may be offered the chance to carry over their stats and progress from the current-gen to the next. EA announced last week that those who buy FIFA 14 on PS3 or Xbox 360 – which is released in September – will be able to transfer much …
Read More »The Saboteur, and the beautiful randomness of open-world games
I’m not a fan of open-world games. In the present scenario, where customers are so vocal about console restrictions and where pay-what-you-like indie bundles and free-to-play are all about giving gamers more choice, it sounds strange for me to say this, but I don’t enjoy the amount of freedom most …
Read More »Ashes Cricket 2013 delayed to November; "it’s not good enough"
505 Games and developer Trickstar Games have delayed Ashes Cricket 2013 once again, this time to November. That means that the game will not launch during the on-going Ashes series, something 505 Games had been gunning for after pushing back its initial 21st June release date. Put simply, the game …
Read More »505 Games delays Ashes Cricket 2013 for a second time
Ashes Cricket 2013 has been delayed for a second time by its publisher 505 Games. The reason? In blunt terms the publisher admitted that the game simply wasn’t good enough in its current state”. The game has already missed its previously scheduled for release of June 21st. It will now …
Read More »Minecraft 360 claims first UK No.1; Pikmin 3 debuts in 2nd
A 74 per cent week-on-week jump in sales has seen Microsoft’s Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition claim its first No.1 in the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. In doing so it forces Nintendo’s latest Wii U release Pikmin 3 to settle for second place in its debut week. The …
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