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John Riccitiello on how Sony and Microsoft can revitalise the console industry

Nintendo is giving away 3DS games, and is promoting the offer via TV. The firm’s ‘So Many Games’ promotion is a buy-three-get-one-free offer. Consumers who register three recently released 3DS titles will get a download version of a fourth one free. The games in the promotion include Luigi’s Mansion 2, …

Mobile SDK initial supporting achievements and leaderboards for Android

Former EA boss John Riccitiello believes that PS4 and the new Xbox will both be commercial successes. I can’t keep track of the number of people who have told me they don’t believe the new consoles, long rumoured to be coming from both Microsoft and Sony this fall, will succeed,” …

Fresh rumours suggest that Microsoft will use tonight’s Xbox reveal to announce a fresh drive toward cloud gaming. The Wall Street Journal says that Microsoft has, amongst other things, significantly explored the possibilities of cloud gaming. The tech could be used not only to play instant on-demand back-catalogue Xbox 360 …

No, it isn’t. But this attempt at piecing together the snippet’s from yesterday’s video is great. Sony successfully stormed the Xbox party last night by releasing a teaser video showing a handful of blurry images of the new hardware. Now one Redditor has compiled all of the snippets and tried …

Upcoming Microsoft console to be manufactured by Foxconn

You’ve undoubtedly read lots of rumours about tonight’s Xbox reveal. Forget them. Forget every one of them. Microsoft’s secretive Next Generation Security Enforcement Team has over the last few years been quietly working in conjunction with a number of national and international law enforcement agencies to suppress the truth. What …

Free-to-play games increase dominance of Android app store

In less than eight hours time Microsoft will reveal the successor to the Xbox 360… which leaves plenty of time for the guessing game to continue. First off, we have a couple of confirmations, both from EA. The publisher has announced that FIFA 14 will tonight be shown off for …