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The name of the next Need for Speed title has been revealed – but it’s the platforms that it is in development for that’s of the most interest. EA has revealed Need for Speed: No Limits, which is coming soon” to smartphones and tablets. Furthermore, it’s being made by Firemonkeys, …
Read More »Firefox drops Google as default search engine
Mozilla has struck a deal with Yahoo to make the latter Firefox’s default search engine on desktop and mobile. This means Yahoo will replace Google, which has been the Firefox default for a decade. In conjunction with the announcement, Yahoo has said that it will roll out new search functions …
Read More »Activision finally releases some Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare numbers
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is the biggest entertainment launch of the year – that’s the headline from Activision’s long-awaited sales press release. Some nine days on from the release of the game, Activision has revealed only that the shooter has beaten the sales of any other game, movie, album …
Read More »Frontier starts offering Elite: Dangerous refunds over online furore
Some owners of Elite: Dangerous who are unhappy with the recent ditching of the game’s offline mode are being offered refunds. However, the only customers who are eligible are those who pre-ordered the final game and have therefore not yet played it. Anyone who has already played the alpha or …
Read More »Street Fighter II producer is ‘never’ going back to consoles
Yoshiki Okamoto has said that his future lies completely within the realm of mobile game development. The Street Fighter II creator left Capcom in the mid 2000s to found Forsaken Kingdom developer Game Republic. After that closed in 2011 he joined Mixi and subsequently created iOS hit Monster Strike. Not …
Read More »iOS banishes ‘Free’ icon from F2P game descriptions
Free-to-play games are no longer listed as being ‘Free’ on the Apple App Store. Instead, apps such as Candy Crush Saga, Angry Birds Stella and Clash of Clans now have a ‘Get’ button, below which is the line ‘In-App Purchases’. Beyond confirming to Re/Code that the change has been made …
Read More »Johhny Rotten has spent £10k on iPad apps in two years
It turns out that Sex Pistols star John ‘Rotten’ Lydon is quite the gamer. Despite telling The Telegraph that he and his wife are normally really careful” with money there is one hobby on which Lydon is happy to splash the cash – gaming. I wasted – you’re the first …
Read More »VR must address motion sickness problems, EA warns
Publisher EA has said it will be right at the forefront of virtual reality if the technology takes off – but a big hurdle remains before that can happen. The challenge is if you are at all even slightly motion sick prone, it’s very tough," EA CFO Blake Jorgensen said …
Read More »Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare beats PES 2015 to Japanese No.1
Western FPS king Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare has beaten a firm Japanese favourite to the top of the Japanese weekly charts. Famitsu data reveals that the shooter, published by Square Enix in the region, sold 100,996 copies on PS3 to claim No.1, beating the 76,407 units PES 2015 sold …
Read More »World of Warcraft players get five free play days to compensate for DLC struggles
Players of Blizzard’s all-conquering MMO World of Warcraft are being handed a five day extension to their subscriptions to make up for the troubled launch of the Warlords of Draenor DLC. The offer applies to all subscriptions that were active as of Friday November 14th. The quality of the content …
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