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A limited edition Halo 4 Xbox 360 bundle will be available to pre-order from Microsoft’s online store, when Microsoft gets around to actually announcing it that is. A pre-order listing for the custom console was discovered on the store by IGN before being subsequently pulled from public viewing. According to …
Read More »Ouya Kickstarter raises $4m
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Read More »Grand Theft Auto V Rockstar’s "biggest open world game to date"
Rockstar Games has announced that Grand Theft Auto V will be its biggest open-world game yet. That’s a loaded statement considering the massive game worlds seen in Red Dead Redemption and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The statement was posted on Rockstar’s official website in response to a user question …
Read More »BioWare’s free-to-play Ultima Forever headed to PC and iPad
BioWare Mythic is reviving the Ultima franchise with its announcement of Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar. The new game will be free-to-play and will be available on the iPad and PC with cross-platform support, allowing players on both platforms to share their experiences with each other. We’re excited to …
Read More »Ouya nears $4m on Kickstarter
Console newcomer Ouya is possibly just hours away from passing the $4,000,000 funding mark on Kickstarter. At the time of writing the project has attracted $3,934,714 in pledges from 30,542 backers. Interestingly, in the process of writing this story (which took about 15 minutes) the project attracted 54 backers contributing …
Read More »VIDEO: Walking Dead FPS gets first trailer
The first trailer for Activision’s video game take on the Walking Dead series has received its first trailer. The game is being developed by Terminal Reality and will be released on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC some time in 2013. It’s the second time a developer has attempted to adopt …
Read More »The Last Story gets a North American release date at last
Xseed has announced The Last Story will finally launch in North America. The action RPG is set to arrive August 14th on Wii for $49.99, the publisher toldIGN. It released in Europe some six months ago, and has been out for well over a year in Japan. Pre-order is available …
Read More »Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD announced for PC
A PC release announcement for Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD has been provided courtesy of Activision. The downloadable title will be making its way onto PC ‘a few weeks’ after its launch on XBLA to kick of Microsoft’s Summer of Arcade promo. Meanwhile the PS3 release on PSN is still …
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Read More »Sony rejected EyeToy Kama Sutra pitch
EyeToy Kama Sutra could have been a notable addition to Sony’s PS2 library – had the platform holder known how to go about QA testing it. "There was a genuine pitch from a developer who pitched EyeToy Kama Sutra,” SCE producer Pete Smith told Eurogamer. Seriously, this was a genuine …
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