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Konami has said that it will be killing off the online element of PES 2015 this autumn. All online services for the game will be terminated on August 25th, just 21 months after it was first released. Any unspent game credit will be wiped from user accounts at that time. …
Read More »Report: Watch Dogs 2 launching in November, set in San Francisco
It appears that Ubisoft’s follow-up to its hacking blockbuster Watch Dogs will be coming out this year. That’s if a leak from IGN to be believed. Advertising on the media giant went up early, revealing an November 15th release date for Watch Dogs 2 (courtesy of Eurogamer, below). This is …
Read More »Persona 5 launching in the US next February
The latest entry in Atlus’ cult JRPG Persona series will be hitting American shelves at the start of 2017. Publisher Atlus has revealed that Persona 5 will be launching for PS4 and PS3 on February 14th, 2017. Not only that – the firm has announced a special edition, which is …
Read More »Adventure Time, Sonic, The Goonies and Harry Potter tipped for LEGO Dimensions
Nine new brands will be added to the LEGO Dimensions roster at E3, one report has claimed. Press Start reckons it has the jump on the announcement, claiming that the additions will be headlined by cult games IP Sonic the Hedgehog and current Cartoon Network hit Adventure Time. Also on …
Read More »Flaregames breaks company records with Nonstop Knight
Kopla Games’ clicker-meets-dungeon-crawler tops 2m downloads
Read More »Challenge scraps UK games TV show Videogame Nation
The UK’s only regular TV video games show, Videogame Nation, has been cancelled after its fourth series. The decision was described by co-host Dan Maher as sudden” in a Facebook post, where he added: Challenge TV decided not to renew the show in order to focus exclusively on gameshow content. …
Read More »Discover Vulkan, the successor to OpenGL
Intel Developer Blog: Find out how the new API is taking graphics forward
Read More »OPM sponsors Develop Awards 2016
Recruitment firm returns as Table Gift Partner for this year's ceremony in Brighton
Read More »Facebook login coming to Blizzard games, with streaming to follow
Overwatch, Hearthstone and World of Warcraft players may soon be able to stream their gameplay directly to Facebook. Blizzard has confirmed that as of later this month players will be able to log into PC versions of Battle.net titles using their Facebook login. However, logins are just the start – …
Read More »FIFA 17 switches engine from Ignite to Frostbite
This year’s FIFA instalment will be the first built on the Frostbite 3 engine, EA has announced. The football series made the leap to the freshly-built Ignite engine in 2013, alongside the launch of the PS4 and Xbox One consoles. The publisher has now confirmed that FIFA 17 will run …
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