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Gay-focused gaming and tech convention Gaymercon has received the official backing from publisher EA. The gathering, which is designed as a friendly destination for the LGBTQ community, smashed its $25k Kickstarter target last month. EA’s global diversity and inclusion boss Ginger Maseda stated: EA believes that to be truly innovative, …
Read More »Game4u announces preorder promotions for upcoming blockbusters
Game4u has announced its preorder promotions for upcoming titles such as Assassin’s Creed 3, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Medal of Honor: Warfighter and Call of Duty: Black Ops II. The retailer had earlier revealed promotions for FIFA 13 and Resident Evil 6. Here’s what you can get when you …
Read More »Obsidian CEO: Publishers approached us to front Kickstarter campaigns
Certain publishers are looking to take advantage of Kickstarter to develop new IPs and generate money without having to invest, Obsidian’s CEO Feargus Urquhart has claimed. Urquhart mentioned on Obsidian’s Project Eternity Kickstarter page that he had been reached out to by ‘some publishers’ looking to use the developer as …
Read More »Uncharted 3 GOTY edition announced, out next week
Sony has announced a ‘Game of the Year’ edition of Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, set to arrive later this month. The game will see an individual launch as well as release with the freshly announced PS3 Super Slim as a bundle later on. The re-release will pack in the base …
Read More »Kingston celebrates 10 years of HyperX with StarCraft II tournament
Kingston will conduct a free online StarCraft II tournament to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of its HyperX range of gaming-specific memory products for PC. Gamers from around the world can compete online in order to qualify for the finals at CES 2013 in Las Vegas in January. Amongst the finalists …
Read More »Valve’s first hardware beta set for 2013
One-year goal to make Steam games 'more fun to play in your living room'
Read More »Unity announces deal to support Wii U
Unity Technologies has announced the signing of an agreement with Nintendo to license the Unity engine for the Wii U. The deal grants Nintendo the right to distribute the development platform to all its licensee developers including in-house, external, and third party. The rapid growth of incredible games coming from …
Read More »Unity inks Wii U deal
Deployment to next-gen Nintendo console coming to engine; platform holder gains distribution rights
Read More »Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain joins IGN for FIFA review
England, Arsenal and FIFA 13 cover star Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain will join IGN tomorrow to discuss FIFA 13 during a special live stream dedicated to the video game. The football star will join the UK team during a special demonstration of the game tomorrow (Thursday, September 20th) at 4pm. The show …
Read More »Fans to host 500 WWE ’13 launch parties
THQ wants hundreds of gamers to run their own WWE launch parties, offering the chance . The publisher has teamed up with IGN, Kerrang! Radio and party organisers Come Round to offer 500 gamers the chance to get WWE ‘13 a week ahead of release. Winners will receive their title …
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