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A slip up on the Amazon listing for the official Mass Effect: Andromeda art book may have revealed the game’s release date. Destructoid noticed that the listing for The Art of Mass Effect: Andromeda on the US version of Amazon currently has a release date of March 21st 2017. Now …
Read More »CI Games shooting for triple-A standards with Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3
Critics have not exactly been nice to CI Games and its Sniper: Ghost Warrior franchise in the past. Although the series has been commercially successful since its 2010 launch, its Metacritic scores are all below 55. But with Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3, CEO Marek Tyminski hopes to move away from …
Read More »Bandai Namco officially confirms Power Rangers game
There will be a tie-in game arriving alongside next year’s Power Ranger movie reboot. As leaked last week, Bandai Namco is publishing Saban’s Mighty Morphin Power Ranger: Mega Battle. The ‘Saban’ part of that title refers to the return of the series’ creator Haim Saban, who is producing the new …
Read More »Respawn on Titanfall’s PS4 debut, its new story mode and facing Battlefield 1 and Call of Duty
When Titanfall launched in 2014, it was a new IP brimming with potential. Made by Respawn, a new developer formed from alumni of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare studio Infinity Ward, it looked like an interesting evolution of the first person shooter genre. Titanfall took the first-person shooter mechanics Respawn …
Read More »Crowdfunded Wasteland 3 reaches goal in three days
24 days still left on the Fig campaign, stretch goals added
Read More »Wasteland 3 fully funded in just three days
Wasteland 3 has successfully been funded on Fig to the tune of $2.75 million after just three days. The campaign for the party based roleplaying game was launched on October 5th, seeking $2,750,000. At the time of writing the total raised stands at $2,819,926, with 24 days left on the …
Read More »Jeff Minter’s Polybius is a PSVR exclusive
Jeff Minter from Space Giraffe and TxK fame is re-imaging the legendary Polybius arcade game as a PSVR exclusive. Announced with an incredibly detailed short story on the Playstation Blog, Minter revealed that he has decided to create Polybius exclusively for PSVR. He said in the announcement that it was …
Read More »Star Citizen’s single player campaign will miss 2016 launch date
Squadron 42, the single player branch of Star Citizen, has been delayed into 2017. At Citizencon the team at Cloud Imperium Games announced the delay, saying that the campaign would not meet its 2016 release date. While a lot of the technology behind the game is done there are still …
Read More »Production of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 reportedly suspended
According to reports from South Korea production of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 has been suspended. South Korean news company Yonhap reported that all production of the Note 7 has been halted after it was discovered that the new replacement devices were also likely to catch fire. Last month Samsung …
Read More »FIFA 17 still UK No.1, Mafia III debuts in second place
EA’s latest FIFA title has held onto the top spot in the UK charts for its second week on shelves. That’s according to GfK’s software ranks, which say that the football title saw a sales decline of 79 per cent week-on-week. Meanwhile, 2K Games’ latest new release, Mafia III, debuted …
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