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The revelation last week that Konami had blocked Hideo Kojima’s attendance of The Game Awards was an impromptu decision. The developer was awarded the Best Action/Adventure Game prize at the event but was prevented from attending by Konami lawyers. And in a spur of the moment decision, host Geoff Keighley …
Read More »Destiny introduces £24.99 character boost microtransactions
A new type of microtransaction has been added to Destiny that allows players to instantly spec up a character. Eurogamer reports that players now have the option of buying a levelling pack that can instantly boost a character all the way up to level 25. The cost? 24.99. This year’s …
Read More »2015: Review of the Year
As the Doctor once said: There’s loads of boring stuff like Sundays and Tuesdays and Thursday afternoons, but now and then there are Saturdays”. 2015 was perhaps not quite a Saturday, but nor was it a Tuesday. A Friday, perhaps? Although only a Friday morning or early afternoon. The current …
Read More »Fils-Aime says that Nintendo smartphone games will be ‘different’ to the norm
The boss of Nintendo America has said warned that gamers shouldn’t be expecting traditional experiences from the company’s firs smartphone titles. Unfortunately there’s a simplistic mentality out there, that ‘Make a Mario game for smart devices’ is a recipe for printing money,” Reggie Fils-Aim told TIME. And it’s not. It …
Read More »Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5 on track for pre-Christmas last-gen release
It looks as if the PS3 version of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5 will arrive in time for Christmas. Videogamer reports on word from the US PlayStation Blogcast that the PS3 iteration of the game is due for release in the US both digitally and physically next week (Tuesday December …
Read More »Spencer "fully expects" another Xbox after the Xbox One
Cloud computing, streaming, smartphones – there are all sorts of tools one could use to form an argument that this generation of consoles will be the last. Indeed, folk have been saying this since before the release of PS4 and Xbox One. Yet this generation is tracking well ahead of …
Read More »Nintendo patent could be the NX controller
Companies file all sorts of patents, so there’s every chance that this particular device will never see the light of day. However, combined with this week’s networked computing patent, a fresh application from Nintendo could point to yet another big innovation from the platform holder for its next console the …
Read More »EA opens eSports division, headed by Peter Moore
Current EA COO Peter Moore has landed a new role at the publisher, heading up a brand new eSports division. Its official name is the EA Competitive Gaming Division (CGD), and Moore’s new title is Executive Vice President and Chief Competition Officer. His aim is to further the eSports aspirations …
Read More »John Lewis has started stocking a VR headset
Straight-laced, stiff upper-lipped, very-sensible middle class British High Street retailer John Lewis has got all modern, like, by adding a virtual reality headset to its shelves. It’s called the Freefly VR. It costs 49.95 and can be found on the fifth level of the store’s flagship Oxford Street outlet. The …
Read More »AMD is adding HDMI support to FreeSync
FreeSync is freeing itself of the need for a DisplayPort connection. AMD’s technology synchronises a PC’s and monitor’s refresh rate (the number of different frames shown on the screen every second), providing for smoother visuals and responsiveness. Until now both FreeSync and Nvidia’s equivalent tech G0Sync have required PCs to …
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