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Retailer Green Man Gaming has said that it will give PC gamers their money back if Batman Arkham Knight isn’t fixed. The game has taken considerable flack for a string of technical issues on PC that so far remain unresolved, resulting in a user review backlash on Steam and a …
Read More »The Rock is starring in a Rampage film
Midway’s 1986 arcade hit Rampage is the latest video game license to be given the Hollywood treatment. Deadline reports that Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson will begin filming for the live-action film next summer after completing duties on Fast & Furious. Rampage is being made by New Line, with Beau Flynn …
Read More »Activision thinks about Call of Duty remasters ‘a lot’
The Call of Duty series could be in line for the next-gen remaster treatment, if Activision comments are anything to go by. "If done well, I think [remasters] can be great," Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg told Game Informer. "You talk about nostalgia, and people have such connection to the …
Read More »Warner Bros facing backlash over PC version of Batman Arkham Knight
The Steam user reviews for Batman Arkham Knight will make for some hard reading for publisher Warner Bros this morning. The PC port of the superhero title is being slammed by all corners of the internet following its release yesterday thanks to a catalogue of technical problems being experienced by …
Read More »Driveclub PS Plus Edition pulled after ‘prematurely’ going live
The long-awaited PS Plus version of Driveclub finally arrived yesterday – only to be pulled almost immediately. ‘Premature’ may not be a word one would typically associate with Driveclub, the free version of which was originally due to arrive alongside the main game last October. But that’s the word the …
Read More »Sony: VR is not the next 3D TV; Spector: VR is a fad
It seems that for every critic declaring virtual reality to be the next major entertainment development, there’s another dismissing it as a flash in the pan. Who is right? It will be several years before we know for sure, but Sony studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has dismissed those who predict …
Read More »A blue Forza 6 Xbox One console is on the way
Microsoft has revealed a very fetching looking Limited Edition Xbox One that will arrive alongside Forza 6 later this year. The blue hardware has a Forza decal running along the top and down the front, as well as some special markings around the power button. The controller (which is the …
Read More »GungHo signs République publishing deal
Puzzle & Dragons developer GungHo has wasted no time in getting its new publishing aspirations underway. Earlier this month the company revealed that it saw publishing as a good means of making use of its huge piles of cash. Now it has unveiled a deal to publish future titles from …
Read More »Media Create pegs weekly Japanese Xbox One sales at 100 units
Numbers from sales monitor Media Create suggest that Xbox One slipped to a saddening new low in Japan earlier this month. Kotaku reports that the numbers suggest that for the week ending June 14th Xbox One sold just 100 units across the whole of Japan. That’s less than PS3 (2,633) …
Read More »Sony: PlayStation TV ‘didn’t capture consumers’ imagination’
Sony studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has said that the difficulty in explaining exactly what PlayStation TV is has led to the streaming devices’ failure. "It didn’t capture the consumers’ imagination," he told Game Informer. "It’s a hard concept to explain. You could say it’s a mini-console, it’s a video streaming …
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