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No decision has yet been made on whether or not the Wii U version of Call of Duty: Black Ops II will offer the new Season Pass. Activision announced yesterday that it was scrapping subscription charges for its CoD-based social network Call of Duty: Elite. Instead it will now offer …
Read More »Bioshock Infinite devs depart for Microsoft
Bioshock Infinite’s development team has taken another hit with the loss of two more key members. Superannuation reports the game’s AI lead, Don Norbury, and combat design director Clint Bundrick have moved on to jobs with Microsoft. According to their respective Linkedin profiles, Norbury’s new role at Microsoft is senior …
Read More »Minecraft 360 edition ‘Adventure Update’ lands today
The Xbox 360 edition of Minecraft is set to receive the content-packed ‘Adventure Update’ sometime later today. The game’s console developer 4J Studios revealed on Twitter that the patch had passed Microsoft certification and its arrival is now imminent. Along with the expected bug fixes and tweaks update 1.8.2 adds …
Read More »Steam Greenlight selects 21 new titles
Valve has announced the approval of nearly two dozen new games for its Steam Greenlight program. The second set of picks contains 21 games and is over double that of the first batch announced last month. Given the number and quality of games submitted, and the ship date of many …
Read More »Zynga sues ex-Cityville GM Alan Patmore
Former exec accused of stealing corporate secrets
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Read More »GameStop says Black Ops II on track to be "biggest game launch of all time"
Global games retail giant GameStop is predicting big things for the next Call of Duty. The firm says that Black Ops II is the most pre-ordered in its history – and that this means the franchise could once again break records at release in November. CoD: Black Ops II is …
Read More »Activision scraps Call of Duty Elite subscriptions, introduces Season Pass
Call of Duty Elite membership will come free with Black Ops II. The bespoke social network was once seen as Activision’s early attempt to manoeuvre the Call of Duty IP into the subscription-based market, but those plans have seemingly been abandoned. Instead, Activision will try to generate post-sale revenue for …
Read More »Zotac launches GTX 650 Ti budget graphics cards range
Zotac launched its line-up of budget graphics cards based on Nvidia’s GTX 650 Ti graphics processor in Mumbai last week. Alongside the launch of the company’s new line of Zbox mini-PCs, Zotac unveiled three cards based on the latest 650 Ti chipset, effectively completing Nvidia’s gamut of Kepler-based600 seriesofferings. Aside …
Read More »Microsoft perma-banning Halo 4 pirates
Permanent Xbox Live bans are being handed out to Xbox 360 owners who have illegally pirated Halo 4. The game became available online over the weekend, but can only be played by users who have modded their Xbox 360 console to run pirated code. And have then been daft enough …
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