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Rare’s fighting franchise Killer Instinct could be back from the dead. Microsoft renewed the IP’s trademark last week; and while they’re not hiding that fact, there’s not a whole lot the company is saying at this point. "We have either renewed or refiled a trademark application in various jurisdictions,” Microsoft …
Read More »The Walking Dead Episode 4 hits next month
Telltale has announced the next episode of The Walking Dead will arrive in October. Entitled ‘Around Every Corner’, the fourth chapter in the set of five has been penned by Book of Eli screenwriter Gary Whitta. A specific date wasn’t revealed, but look for it to release digitally on PC, …
Read More »Unity opening Berlin studio
Job listing suggests online focus for new branch
Read More »Platinum labels PS3’s Bayonetta as its "biggest failure"
Bayonetta is a modern Japanese classic. As long as you played it on Xbox 360. The PS3 version – a port of the Xbox 360 code – was handled by an in-house team at publisher Sega. The result was a release dogged by framerate and control issues. The biggest failure …
Read More »GAME OF THE DAY: FIFA 13
FIFA 12 was one of the best video games ever made. And improving on it must have been a nightmare. But it’s a challenge that the EA Canada team has most definitely risen to. On the face of it, FIFA 13 appears very similar to its predecessor. The game modes …
Read More »Samsung smartphones threatened by data-wiping vulnerability
A new vulnerability has emerged that can instantly wipe the data stored on some Samsung smartphones that use the TouchWiz UI. The Verge reports that the seemingly innocuous HTML code has been shown to affect both the Samsung Galaxy S Advance, Galaxy S II and at least some network variants …
Read More »Warner reveals pair of free-to-play Hobbit titles
Upcoming Hollywood outing The Hobbit is to get the free-to-play game treatment. Warner has revealed a pair of titles – The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-earth for mobiles and Hobbit:Armies of the Third Age for web browsers. Both are due for release in autumn of this year, with the film itself …
Read More »Sega vs The Son of God and pan-dimensional lizards
And to think, you thought Ubisoft was brave to take on the anti-DRM brigade… David Icke has lashed out at Sega over its refusal to allow him to use a track from Medieval: Total War II in an upcoming stage tour. Who is David Icke, you ask? Well… He was …
Read More »The games market may be down, but digital engagement is higher than ever
The money spent on games may be dwindling, but the time spent researching them certainly is not. A new Google whitepaper entitled ‘Understanding the modern Gamer’ says that desktop searches for top tier” games in the ten months before and after release have increased 20 per cent year on year. …
Read More »The iOS 6 App Store ‘is a disaster’ for developers
Indies speak out on lack of discoverability and claim new OS favours established studios
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