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Indian festivals have for long caused delays in the release of high-profile games, but that won’t be the case for Call of Duty: Ghosts. Distributor WWC has confirmed to MCV that the shipment of Infinity Ward’s latest has already arrived in India and will clear customs in time to hit …
Read More »Next-gen FIFA ‘is the best we have ever made’
Electronic Arts says FIFA 2014 on Xbox One and PS4 is the best football game it has ever made. The title will launch alongside both machines next month and producer Nick Channon says the game is a great base from which to launch more products in the lucrative football franchise. …
Read More »Microsoft discloses how Kinect collects private data
Computing giant also explains how developers and users can use facial expressions to control gameplay on Xbox One titles
Read More »The Medal of Honor killer: A Call of Duty story
Over the decades, the global video games industry has seen some fierce rivalries. Sonic vs Mario. FIFA vs PES. Xbox vs PlayStation. But the fiercest and bitterest of all conflicts has to be the one between EA and Activision. The two super-powers of game publishing have been locked in battle …
Read More »Nintendo suspends Swapnote on 3DS due to ‘offensive material’
Messaging function 'actively misused'
Read More »PS4 preorders ‘much higher’ than past consoles
Launch lineup 'stronger than predecessors', claims Sony
Read More »GungHo struck by sales decline
Quarterly sales and profits at Puzzle & Dragons developer and publisher GungHo have fallen 12 per cent to $238m during the last quarter, according to the company’s latest financials. As reported bySerkan ToTo, sales only fell slightly by five per cent to $424m compared to the previous quarter. It was …
Read More »Tiger Woods already negotiating video games return
The Tiger Woods brand could return to a video game near you sooner than you think. EA announced earlier this week that it had reached a mutual decision” with Woods to end his run of appearances on the cover of its PGA Tour Golf series. Now the golfer’s agent Mark …
Read More »Resident Evil 5 overtakes Street Fighter II to become Capcom’s best ever seller
2009 action outing Resident Evil 5 is now Capcom’s best selling game ever. It has overtaken the 6.3m sales of 1992 SNES release Street Fighter II to claim the crown and also leads the likes of Resident Evil 6 (5.2m), Resident Evil 2 (4.96m), Monster Hunter Freedom 3 (4.8m) and …
Read More »PS4 won’t support media servers or MP3s
Sony has revealed a couple of bits of functionality that are missing from PS4. Perhaps the most painful is the fact that it won’t support media servers or offer DLNA support, meaning that users won’t be able to stream content from the PC or media centre through to the device. …
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