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What will probably be the most transformative update yet for Blizzard’s Hearthstone finally has a release date. The Grand Tournament’s 132 cards will be available to buy and play next week, on August 24th. This will also be the day that those who pre-ordered the 50 Pack bundle will finally …
Read More »Two more join Hocking in Amazon Game Studios exit
Clint Hocking isn’t the only high-profile member of Amazon Game Studios to leave the developer. It was reported yesterday that Hocking, who joined the then growing studio alongside Portal lead Kim Swift in April 2014, has now left the company. GameSpot reports that two other big names have also exited …
Read More »Frozen Free Fall: Snowball Fight is heading to Xbox One
Popular mobile match-3 title Frozen Free Fall: Snowball Fight is releasing as a free-to-play title on Xbox One. The Xbox store says it will be released next week on August 25th. Like the mobile game, it will also support in-app purchases to aid player progression through its 195 levels. New …
Read More »UPDATED: Games running some older DRM won’t work on Windows 10
Aging digital rights management software such as SafeDisc and Securom isn’t compatible with Windows 10, meaning many old disc-based games are incompatible. Everything that ran in Windows 7 should also run in Windows 10,” Microsoft’s Boris Schneider-Johne explained in a German Gamescom video translated by Rock Paper Shotgun. There are …
Read More »Pac-Mac 256 arrives on smartphones, along with an interesting IAP system
Publisher Bandai Namco and developer Hipster Whale have finally released the long-awaited Pac-Man 256 on smartphones. The game, from the studio behind the extremely popular Crossy Road, is named after the infamous level 256 glitch in the original Pac-Man. Due to some technical peculiarities of that title, the 8-bit level …
Read More »UK advertising regulator publishes YouTuber guidelines
A new set of guidelines published by the Committee of Advertising Practise have called for clearer signposting of advertising and marketing deals in YouTube videos. The document examines a number of scenarios in which ‘vloggers’ should fully disclose any such commercial agreements. Those who are found in breach of the …
Read More »Amazon ditches its trade-in program
By the end of the month customers will no longer be able to trade-in their old video games at Amazon. Until now a whole host of products – including but not limited to video games – could be traded in on the site. However, the entire process is being scrapped. …
Read More »Mario Happy Meal toy embroiled in wanking kerfuffle
Well here’s a story we didn’t expect to be bashing out on a mid-week summer holiday morning. A Super Mario Happy Meal toy has today rubbed a few people up the wrong way after finding itself at the centre of a completely bizarre controversy. A Mirror story has alleged that …
Read More »Early DirectX 12 benchmarks make good reading for AMD
An early look at the performance of DirectX 12 games on PC suggests that while AMD users will see some dramatic gains, the story isn’t quite as rosy for Nvidia. AMD has been languishing behind Nvidia in terms of both performance and popularity for quite some time, but PC Perspective …
Read More »Kamiya wants Scalebound to show off Xbox One’s potential
The co-founder of Platinum Games has said that one of his key aspirations for Scalebound is for it to increase the overall appeal of Xbox One. To achieve this, Hideki Kamiya has told Metro that he believes the title will really show off the potential of Microsoft’s machine. One thing …
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