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Upcoming Tetris update Tetris Ultimate will launch next month on Nintendo 3DS, publisher Ubisoft has announced. The 3DS version includes four single-player Challenge modes: "Master" has Tetriminos drop instantly and appear at the bottom of the screen, "Rotation Lock" randomizes the orientations of the Tetriminos and freezes them in one …
Read More »Minecraft Lego set images leaked
New images of the upcoming Minecraft-themed Lego sets have leaked, courtesy of Russian Lego retailer Mir Kibikov. Shacknews reports on the retailer’s accidental” leak of the new line prematurely, which reveals images of six upcoming Minecraft Lego sets – including The First Night, The Mine, Workbench, Dragon Edge, The Cave, …
Read More »Google says Amazon, and not Microsoft, is its biggest rival
Google chairman Eric Schmidt believes that Amazon is its biggest search competitor. In a speech in Berlin, Schmidt pointed out that internet users are likely to go directly to the retailer when shopping, stating: Many people think our main competition is Bing or Yahoo. But, really, our biggest search competitor …
Read More »Windows 10 gets 1m preview sign-ups
Microsoft has revealed that it has already seen one million installations of the Windows 10 Technical Preview. The preview has been available for just two weeks, butin a blog post,Microsoft has said that users have already sent more than 200,000 pieces of feedback about the new operating system. Microsoft added …
Read More »VR is the next logical step for survival horror, Resident Evil producer says
A virtual reality version of Resident Evil has taken one step closer to reality. Resident Evil: Revelations 2 producer Michiteru Okabe told GameInformer, as reported by GameSpot, that: "Speaking personally, I’m really excited about VR. "I think it makes sense. Having gone from 2D to 3D, now it’s time to …
Read More »Evolution to begin re-activating Driveclub features
Driveclub will see some of its online features switched on in the coming day as Evolution claims that the game’s online performance is improving. Players are largely still reporting issues with the game’s online connectivity, and even when they are connected functions such as Clubs and leaderboards remain offline. Continual …
Read More »Assassin’s Creed Rogue PC edition announced for 2015
Assassin’s Creed Rogue will see a release on Windows PC in addition to its console launch, Ubisoft has revealed. The publisher placed a release window of early 2015” for the PC version – meaning it will arrive at least a few months after the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 editions …
Read More »Inside Ubisoft’s gamer charm offensive
The last time we spoke to Ubisoft we discussed how the firm has come in for a fair bit of flack in recent months. Whether it was for its support (or lack of) for PC gamers, or the fact Watch Dogs didn’t quite change the world like everyone thought it …
Read More »Yamauchi says Gran Turismo 7 will be with us in 2015 or 2016
The latest release estimate for PS4’s Gran Turismo 7 is some time over the next two years. For GT7, myself and my staff have a clear vision: to do everything we couldn’t do in GT6,” series creator Kazunori Yamauchi told GamesTM. We want to make it very Gran Turismo. By …
Read More »Factor 5’s Julian Eggebrecht reveals canned Star Wars games
Scrapped projects include Rogue Squadron trilogy and multiplayer dogfighter for Xbox 360
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