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This year’s instalment of Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer series is stepping up the licencing war with EA’s FIFA IP. PES 2013 will boast 150 licenses in total, including the entire Spanish league, every team in Italy’s Serie A, The UEFA Champions League, a host of European club teams and 17 …
Read More »Was Vita’s Gamescom dream shortlived? Lifetime sales numbers revealed
It was the week that Vita seemed to live again. But all too quickly Sony’s ambitious handheld has been brought down to earth. Sony has traditionally been coy about revealing Vita’s sales numbers, but be it deliberately or not the numbers were finally revealed at Gamescom last week, with PlayStation …
Read More »Fluid Football dribbles toward the top of the iOS charts
GAME OF THE DAY: Some genres have struggled in the transition from TV to touchscreen. Football is not one of them. Early efforts to bring football to smartphones focused on trying to concentrate the established console game model on the smaller, button-less screen. And sometimes it worked, too – X2’s …
Read More »3D art tool Mari powers Star Wars 1313 visuals
Version 1.5 includes improved overlapping UV support, games shaders and Maya texture exporter
Read More »PICTURES: Borderlands 2 Asia preview event
Last week, while most of the gaming world had its eyes on Germany for Gamescom, Gearbox Software’s Randy Pitchford flew down to Singapore for a preview of the studio’s upcoming game – Borderlands 2. The event kicked off with Pitchford walking a roomful of journalists from around Asia through the …
Read More »Borderlands 2 preorder bonus for India revealed
2K Games has revealed that Indian consumers who preorder Borderlands 2 will receive a bunch of DLC as a bonus, including the all new Mechromancer character class. Those who preorder the game in India will receive the Borderlands 2 Premiere Club, which includes: Mechromancer class – Available as downloadable content …
Read More »Maxwell leaves Future for Eurogamer
Simon Maxwell is to leave Future Publishing – to become publishing director at Eurogamer. Maxwell will leave his post as group publishing director of entertainment and be working at the Brighton-based Eurogamer from October 1st. He has been working at Future for 9 years, joining in 2003 after stints at …
Read More »How do New Super Mario Bros 2 sales compare to the original?
SEQUEL WATCH: The latest data is in, and Nintendo’s New Super Mario Bros 2 was the biggest selling individual format game released last week. It managed No.2 in the Chart-Track All-Formats Charts, beaten by Square Enix’s Sleeping Dogs. But how well did it perform really? Should Nintendo be happy with …
Read More »Alan Duncan leaves the games industry
Former SCE UK marketing director Alan Duncan has accepted a role at lettings specialist Upad. The move signifies his departure from the games industry, a career that began in 1998 when he was hired by GT Interactive. Duncan left Sony’s games team last month after 13 years with the PlayStation …
Read More »Digital accounts for 5% of New Super Mario Bros 2 sales
Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata has revealed that digital sales of new 3DS release New Super Mario Bros 2 accounted for around five per cent of the total. "This initial offering going forward, we’ve gotten a good reaction going," he told The Wall Street Journal. He also revealed that the share …
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