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Zapak Mobile has crossed the 100 million game downloads milestone on the Nokia Store, the company has announced. Of the 350-plus games offered by Zapak on the Nokie Store, 22 racked up over a million downloads, including Chhota Bheem Racing, Ninja Strike, ICC Cricket World Cup 2011, WWE Raw, and …
Read More »Konami adds AFC Champions League licence to PES 2014
The Asian Football Confederation Champions League licence will be present and correct in future versions of PES. The AFC Champions League will be present as a standalone competition and will include all 32 competing teams. PES already includes the UEFA Champions League licence. The acquisition of such a high-profile license …
Read More »Indie vents frustration at Steam submission process
Renegade Kid dev Jools Watsham questions Steam Greenlight voting and lack of feedback from Valve
Read More »Pink 3DS XL coming to UK
Nintendo will release a pink version of its 3DS XL next month. It’s due for release in the UK on May 31st. Nintendo says the release provides newcomers to the Nintendo 3DS XL experience with more options than ever before”. A pink version of the entry-level 3DS is already available. …
Read More »FIFA wants Call of Duty’s No.1 crown
Watch out Call of Duty – EA believes FIFA 14 could be the best selling game of the year. The upcoming soccer sequel was unveiled to the press at a special event in Guildford last week. It boasts a number of new features, which EA believes will fire the game …
Read More »Nvidia bundles free copy of Metro: Last Light with graphics cards
A free copy of Deep Silver’s Metro: Last Light is currently available to those who buy certain Nvidia GTX graphics cards. The game is offered to those who buy a GTX 660 or better, meaning it also includes the likes of the GTX 660Ti, GTX 760, the high-end GTX 680 …
Read More »Tesco and Disney join forces to launch Iron Man 3 app
Iron Man 3 may lack the traditional licensed console game, but it has got an app courtesy of Disney… and Tesco. The Stark Armoury app is described as a new interactive Marvel experience that will have fans and families across the country enjoying a digital treasure hunt through Tesco stores …
Read More »SimCity going offline ahead of Update 2.0 implementation
EA is taking SimCity offline – deliberately this time. The game will go offline for around two hours from 9pm tonight in order for dozens of fixes to be applied for many of the issues that have been irking players since launch. Here are the changes in full, as posted …
Read More »Injustice: God Among Us is this week’s No.1
Warner Bros’ new fighting game Injustice: Gods Among Us is the new UK No.1. It’s the first Warner title to top the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 since LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes in mid-2012. The game improves upon the performance of its spiritual predecessor Mortal Kombat …
Read More »Ouya strikes 10,000 developer partnerships
Kickstarter-funded Android console Ouya has signed 10,000 developers worldwide. Ouya’s head of developer relations Kelle Santiago revealed the milestone to Games Industry, with the news coming just a month after CEO Julie Uhrman confirmed at GDC that the console had already signed on 8,000 devs. "It’s really awesome, especially at …
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