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Preorder bonuses for NetherRealm Studios’ superhero brawler Injustice: Gods Amongst Us will be exclusive to one offline and one online retailer in India. The preorder bonus is the Arkham City DLC skin pack, which includes character skins for Batman, Joker and Catwoman as seen in Batman: Artkham City. This DLC …
Read More »Happy Wars breaks 2m downloads
First free-to-play Xbox title gets 800k new users in four months
Read More »Codemasters owners buys Asian mobile firms
Codemasters parent company Reliance Big Entertainment has acquired new studios in Korea and Japan with a view to increase its footprint in the two markets. Mumbai outfit Reliance has scooped mobile game development and publishing company Funnel Japan in Japan, and secured a majority 51 per cent share of mobile …
Read More »Xi3 Piston priced at $1000
Steam-powered microcomputer joins PS4 in holiday 2013 release window
Read More »BioShock Infinite will be ‘talked about for a long time to come’, says 2K
2K Games proudly claims that BioShock Infinite will live long in the memory of gamers and the industry. The publisher has faith in the quality of its new shooter and it’s backing the title with a monster marketing campaign. BioShock Infinite is like no other shooter out there,” Simon Turner, …
Read More »Ubisoft: Assassin’s Creed IV gives pirates the ‘HBO treatment’
Ubisoft wants to ‘redefine piracy in modern entertainment’ with Assassin’s Creed IV. The new title features a new pirate assassin, but this is a far more serious take on the pirate story than Treasure Island and Pirates of the Carribean – something that’s new to video games and Ubisoft hopes …
Read More »Australian games fund guidelines finalised
Trade body adjusts requirements to suit team sizes and solo developers
Read More »Miyamoto: Pikmin 3 should have been a Wii U launch title
Nintendo’s creative mastermind Shigeru Miyamoto says Pikmin 3 ought to have been a Wii U launch title. He told Time Magazine, that the line-up was not ‘as robust’ as he’d have liked, and a triple-A, high quality game like Pikmin would have helped He said: "If you look back at …
Read More »Free Xbox 360 game Happy Wars scores 2m players
Xbox Live’s first free-to-play title Happy Wars has amassed over 2m players worldwide since launch. Developer Toylogic announced the figure as it rolls out a new content update designed to secure even more players. I’m so excited that more than two million people love Happy Wars. I hope all of …
Read More »PS4 tops YouTube’s most-watched ads list
More than 26 million people watched Sony’s reveal trailer for its next-generation PS4 console last month. The video, which can be viewed below, topped YouTube’s ads leaderboard for February 2013 with five million more views than the next most popular ad, which was from Samsung Mobile USA. The rankings are …
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