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ESL will integrate its competitive gaming systems into PlayStation’s tournaments section on the PS4. ESL will allow players to sign up and compete in many tournaments across multiple games on the PS4 with just a few button presses. Players can also check into tournaments and check their progress through the …
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Devil’s Third multiplayer is being shut down
The online component of Tomonobu Itagaki’s Devil’s Third for Wii U will be shut down in December. Nintendo has revealed that its servers will be switched off on December 29th. That’s just 16 months after the game was released in Europe and Japan and a year after its North American …
Read More »Read about Rovio’s million dollar Angry Birds comeback in this week’s MCV
In this edition of MCV, we sit down with Angry Birds company Rovio to find out how it plans to re-establish the mobile blockbuster franchise. The firm outlines its plans for the upcoming film, its new game Action as well as its marketing tie-ups with the likes of LEGO, H&M …
Read More »Next Zelda coming to NX rumour gains weight
The in-development Zelda title for Wii U will also be released on NX, according to rumours online. So what, you may think? It’s easy to post anything you like on the internet. However, this particular rumour suddenly has a lot more weight behind it. Earlier this week a Neogaf poster …
Read More »The REAL Russian games industry
You’re wrong about Russia. We might be jumping to conclusions, but you probably think of Russia as a games market ruled by PC, with Counter-Strike and World of Tanks the most popular titles and piracy flowing as freely as vodka. That may have been accurate once, but Russia has since …
Read More »NX is ‘something unique and different’ and ‘not the next Wii or Wii U’
Nintendo’s NX console will not follow the path laid out by either the Wii or the Wii U. I’ve said it’s different and obviously a new experience,” Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima told TIME. If you look back to the beginning of our conversation today, we talked about the transition from …
Read More »Unity Focus: Bridging platforms with Dreii
Etter Studio explains how it plans to build on its mobile hit Dreii with a new console and desktop version
Read More »E3 2015: Amiibo gets Skylanders crossover
Donkey Kong and Bowser first in new collaboration between toys-to-life franchises
Read More »E3 2015: The Legend of Zelda: Triforce Heroes announced
Multiplayer returns to the series in a new co-op adventure
Read More »OPINION: E3 may be over for you
The words: ‘E3 just isn’t as relevant as it used to be’ are invariably said by two sets of people. Either those with a vested interest in its decline, or people who are trying to come to terms with the fact that their boss isn’t sending them this year. It’s …
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