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Authorities in Turkey have turned their attention to family favourite Minecraft following allegations of violent content. The BBC reports that Turkey’s family and social policies minister Aysenur Islam has ordered an investigation to assess its suitability for children. Should it be deemed too violent the government could seek to ban …
Read More »New 3DS XL save transfer system draws criticism
Nintendo has outlined the steps needed to transfer save data from an old 3DS to a new 3DS XL – and the press has not been especially forgiving about the process. New 3DS XL system transfer is as easy as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, …
Read More »Know Your Friends is Ubisoft’s unreleased Wii U game, report claims
The identity of Ubisoft’s completed but unreleased Wii U game has apparently been revealed. NintendoWorldReport says that Unseen64 has named the title as Know Your Friends. Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot admitted last year that the publisher had a completed game ready to go for Wii U, but that it was …
Read More »Atari ‘re-imagines’ Asteroids with new open-world PC survival game
Not shy of reinvention, Atari is taking one of its classic arcade IPs and doing something different. Very different. Asteroids shot to fame when it hit arcades in 1979 as a 2D vector arcade shooter. Asteroids: Outpost, however, is looking to capitalise on the recent trend for survival games set …
Read More »BioShock 2 temporarily vanishes from digital stores
Looking to buy BioShock 2 on Steam, Xbox Live or PSN? Tough. Polygon reports that 2K Games’ stylised FPS has vanished from a number of online stores, including the aforementioned. All of its expansions have gone, too. "BioShock 2 has been temporarily removed from the Steam, Xbox Live, and PlayStation …
Read More »Bethesda to host first ever E3 press conference
For the first time in the vent’s history, this year’s E3 will host a press conference from Bethesda. The immediate conclusion? Fallout 4. Although of course the studio has a number of other projects on the go, including the new Doom and the console version of The Elder Scrolls Online, …
Read More »Godus designer can’t see game delivering on Kickstarter promises
Peter Molyneux’s Godus may never grow to be the game that was promised when it launched on Kickstarter. As reported by Rock Paper Shotgun, designer Konrad Naszynski has in a series of posts on the Godus message boards expressed his frustration – and indeed, his cautious optimism – about what …
Read More »EA teases multiplatform release for Titanfall 2
Titanfall 2 looks more likely than ever to be heading to PS4. "Last year it was on the Xbox only; in the future, we haven’t yet announced, but we’ll probably have another Titanfall game,” EA CFO Blake Jorgensen told the 2015 Technology, Internet & Media Conference, as reported by GameSpot. …
Read More »DirectX 12 boosts frames per second by 600% on AMD hardware
An early look at Microsoft’s DirectX 12 graphics API has shown that AMD graphics cards – and potentially Xbox One – could be in line for a significant performance boost. An analysis over at Anandtech shows that AMD’s flagship R9 290X GPU enjoyed a near 600 per cent boost from …
Read More »Tablets could overtake console power in three year’s time, EA says
The acceleration of tablet power will broaden the market appeal of core game, EA CFO Blake Jorgensen has said. "What gets us the most excited is the power, the computing power, of mobile devices and the speed at which that’s growing," he told the 2015 Technology, Internet & Media Conference, …
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