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Administrators Deloitte has announced it will close a further 164 Blockbuster stores. The stores are part of a phased closure and closing down promotions will be run across the shops. 324 Blockbusters stores are now up for closure, leaving around 200 outlets. The remaining stores will remain open while administrators …
Read More »Creating offline applications with HTML5
Intel Developer Blog: Christoph Jechlitschek offers advice on using HTML5 caching features
Read More »EA admits that Medal of Honor: Warfighter was not good enough, but series will be back
Medal of Honor may have been taken out of rotation”, but expect to see more of the series in the future. Last month EA confirmed that the series has been shelved with the intention being to make Battlefield a Call of Duty-rivalling annual series. Yet despite claiming in October that …
Read More »Intencity offers 12% off on all games over Rs 999
Specialist games retailer Intencity is offering a 12% discount on all games priced above Rs 999. The offer covers new and preowned games across all platforms, but doesn’t include peripherals and hardware. Simply apply the code EB8E3F during checkout to avail of the discount, which also applies to games that …
Read More »Xbox 360’s transition from hardcore to casual "was an accident of circumstance"
One of the founders of the original Xbox programme at Microsoft has lashed out at the direction the company has taken with Xbox 360. Nat Brown was one of the key figures behind Microsoft’s assault on the living room and while he understand Microsoft’s want to make the Xbox 360 …
Read More »VIDEO: Real Racing 3 goes free-to-play, gets release date
The next instalment in the EA-owned Firemonkey’s Real Racing series is going to be free to play. A release date of February 28th has also been confirmed for Real Racing 3 on iOS devices. It should also hit Google Play and Amazon Appstore on the same day. It’s a stark …
Read More »Valve fires hardware engineer Jeri Ellsworth
Steam Box controller prototype staffer exits studio after just over a year
Read More »EA: Next-gen consoles may not be backward compatible
Next-gen consoles will most likely not be backwards compatible, EA’s CFO Blake Jorgensen has suggested. Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco, as reported by Gamasutra, Jorgensen said that he expects EA to do good business on current-gen consoles for financial year 2014 even if …
Read More »Of course Gearbox made Aliens: Colonial Marines, Sega insists
Gearbox did not hand over the development of Aliens: Colonial Marines’ single player mode to TimeGate, Sega has insisted. The claims arrived yesterday amidst the twitter and forum storm that followed the lifting of the review embargo for the game – that itself revealed what can best be described as …
Read More »EA on the fence about pre-owned; Next-gen not backwards compatible; Market will never be 100% digital
Publisher EA has admitted that it would in some ways like to see an end to pre-owned games, but has also admitted that the market could suffer were they to vanish. That’s according to chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen, who Gamasutra reports told an audience at the Goldman Sachs Technology …
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