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Ubisoft has announced its games line-up for E3 2013. The publisher revealed its booth will provide attendees a chance to check out a handful of upcoming titles, including Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Watch Dogs, Rayman Legends, South Park: The Stick of Truth, and Splinter Cell: Blacklist. Ubisoft is also …

Nintendo has released the list of Best Buy stores set to demo its Wii U and 3DS E3 line-up next month. The demo stations will be open for business across over 100 US shops on Wednesday, June 12th from 4-8 pm, and again on Saturday, June 15th from 1-5 pm …

The winners of the Thumbstar Games Journalism Prize were named this evening. Eurogamer’s Christian Donlan was the overall winner, for his piece, Night and the City, which was also named best feature. You can read the piece, inspired by Rockstar Games’ LA Noire, here. Donlan was selected by a panel …

Sony is making it mandatory for all PS4 games to support remote play on the PS Vita. The news was first reported by Digital Foundry, and has since been confirmed by Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida on Twitter. What this essentially means is that all PlayStation 4 …

Ubisoft today unveiled what is perhaps its strongest E3 line-up ever, featuring exclusive next-generation games, innovative editions of popular franchises, and new brands and titles.” The publisher will, as always, hold its own pre-E3 press conference, where it will announce and go deeper into some of its most important games …

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PS4 developers must integrate Vita remote play into all of their games, according to a report. A PS4 developer source with a proven track record for accuracy” has toldEurogamerthat only games that require the use of the PS4 Eye will be exempt from Vita compatibility. The report said remote play …

Only games already harnessing the PS4 Eye will be exempt, source claims

The AMD Jaguar CPU that lies at the heart of both PS4 and Xbox One may not be the gaming beast we had expected. Rock Paper Shotgun got its hands on an 4-core 1.5Ghz variant of the 8-core 1.6Ghz chip found in both consoles. It speculates that once the multitasking …