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Those thirsting for a bit of keyboard and mouse tomfoolery on PS4 will soon have an officially sanctioned solution. Amazon is carrying a listing for a HORI branded peripheral called the Tactical Assault Commander 4. It comes in two parts – a mouse and truncated keyboard. The wired mouse appears …
Read More »Bethesda wants Doom to rival COD and Battlefield in FPS ranks
Doom.” Bethesda wants that to be the answer to the question What is your favourite FPS”. Over a decade after the launch of Doom 3 and over 20 years since the series’ debuted, Doom will next year re-enter the FPS race. And publisher Bethesda is desperate to make up for …
Read More »Kojima and del Toro to partner on new project
Silent Hills may be no more, but there could yet be a joint venture between Metal Gear creator andfilm director Guillermo del Toro. The duo’s Silent Hills reboot was scrapped in May, but a new project outside of Konami now looks like a possibility. I love working with Kojima-san,” del …
Read More »China to end console ban
Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo now able to manufacture and sell hardware anywhere in the country
Read More »Hulk Hogan pulled from WWE 2K16
He was for years THE iconic face of the WWF/WWE, but now Hulk Hogan is being wiped from wrestling history. Terry ‘Hulk Hogan’ Bollea has in recent days been caught up in a huge media furore after it emerged that a tape of him that is currently embroiled in a …
Read More »Capcom takes Street Fighter V beta offline in bid to fix server woes
Having deactivated its servers only hours after going live, Capcom has now put a complete temporary stop to the Street Fighter V PS4 beta. The beta went live early this morning but has been beset with connectivity problems from the off. The servers were taken offline around an hour after …
Read More »It frustrates people that I like Aliens: Colonial Marines, Pitchford says
What makes a good game? Is it possible to quantify what ‘good’ means? No it’s not, Randy Pitchford argues. You may not like Aliens: Colonial Marines, but he certainly does. Speaking to Eurogamer, Pitchford produced an email from a fan. "I really enjoyed AC:M, my all-time favourite game," it said. …
Read More »Ex-CD Projekt staff establish new dev team Fool’s Theory
Polish studio working on UE4-powered game with Imgn.Pro
Read More »Square Enix: New IP not a success until it has three hits
Yosuke Matsuda explains why publishers cannot expect too much from a brand new franchise
Read More »Rise of the Tomb Raider coming to PS4 in Q4 2016
Microsoft has one full year’s exclusivity on the upcoming Rise of the Tomb Raider. The official Tomb Raider blog has revealed that the title would be coming to PlayStation 4 in ‘holiday 2016′. That’s Q4 2016 for us Brits. That’s also one year after the title’s release on Xbox consoles …
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