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Ubisoft has said that the Wii U’s lack of processing power is the reason why it decided against porting Assassin’s Creed: Unity to Nintendo’s machine. It couldn’t, it really couldn’t,” creative director Alex Amancio told the Red Bull games blog. I mean this is why we from the beginning, this …

A developer working on Assassin’s Creed: Unity has said that the game has been made to run at a reduced resolution of 900p on PS4 to keep it in line with the Xbox One release. Both versions of the title will run at 900p and 30fps – which was also …

Disney Infinity 2.0 is now available to play on Windows PC, with Disney Interactive offering a free application supporting the toy and game title. The base client is available now as a free download via Disney’s official site for the game. It includes demos for Spider-Man, The Avengers, Guardians of …

Notable indie game protagonists are set to unite in Brightside Games’ upcoming platformer Team Indie, launching later this week for PC and Mac platforms. Tim from Braid, CommanderVideo from Bit.Trip.Runner and Clunk from Awesomenauts are among the cast of indie game stars featured in the title, which has players using …

At EB Expo in Sydney last weekend, we spoke to Lead Designer Bob Roberts from Monolith Studios about the interconnected systems design in Shadow of Mordor

Ubisoft has announced that The Crew has been delayed, and will be released worldwide on December 2nd. The open-world racer was originally set for launch on November 11th, alongside Halo: The Master Chief Collection and two days before Ubisoft’s pair of Assassin’s Creed games, Unity and Rogue, PES 2015 and …

The PC port of Konami’s Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes will be released before the end of the year. Specifically, the game will arrive on Steam on December 18th. The PC SKU will offer 4K graphics as well as an increase in simultaneous light sources, the number of models …

Users of GAME’s smartphone app are now able to scan the front covers of games in store to access information and discounts. The new ‘Scan it!’ functionality uses a smartphone’s camera to view a game’s cover instead of scanning its barcode. It then offers a ‘personalised price’ depending on said …

Colour display TinyScreen works in tandem with computer processor TinyDuino to build handheld

Graphical standards are now so high that the challenge of impressing consumers with flash visuals is bigger then ever. That’s according to Crytek’s principal rendering engineer Nicolas Schulz, who told DSOG of the PC port of Ryse: Son of Rome: I think with its advances in material quality, lighting and …