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Now games can be blamed for ruining your cost of living as well as your children and moral fibre. The higher cost of next-gen gaming is so influential on the UK economy that it has played a part in boosting British inflation in October. The AFP reports that the Office …
Read More »Watch Dogs on Wii U will get some DLC after all
Ubisoft is going to release some DLC for the Wii U version of Watch Dogs. The publisher has previously said that the Bad Blood DLC, which was released for the existing versions of the game, wouldn’t make the jump to Wii U. But Polygon now reports that at least two …
Read More »NBC pulls the plug on G4 TV
US video game TV channel G4 is to be closed by parent company NBC. The network will be switched off on November 30th after over 12 years on the air. NBC Universal has finally pulled the plug on the G4 channel,” a statement from telcom provider Great Plains Communications explained. …
Read More »Layden defends Evolution’s Driveclub, says you can’t test for real-world server strain
The president of Sony Computer Entertainment America has spoken out in defence of UK studio Evolution and its struggles with PS4 racer Driveclub. The game – which was once a PS4 launch title – has been out for six weeks but is still not at full functionality, and the long-awaited …
Read More »UPDATE: Rockstar ‘urgently’ investigating GTA V game save transfer problems
Some owners of Grand Theft Auto V on PS4 and Xbox One have been unable to transfer their GTA Online save data from their old machines. The next-gen version of Rockstar’s critically acclaimed epic is out today (November 18th) and allows players to import their progress and unlocks from their …
Read More »Indian Dragon Age: Inquisition release cancelled due to obscenity laws
EA has decided against releasing Dragon Age: Inquisition in India. "In order to avoid a breach of local content laws, EA has withdrawn Dragon Age: Inquisition from sale in India and the game is no longer available for pre-order,” the publisher told Kotaku. Customers who pre-ordered the game will be …
Read More »SCEA boss Layden joins calls to end GamerGate harassment
The president of Sony Computer Entertainment America has become the latest high-profile gaming exec to publically condemn GamerGate’s hate campaign. I think the industry has spoken with one voice on this one, through the ESA,” Jack Tretton’s successor Shawn Layden told VentureBeat. All of us are members of that trade …
Read More »Reggie Fils-Aime: Wii U is better value than PS4 or Xbox One
The boss of Nintendo America has said that customers get more for their money with Wii U than they do with PS4 or Xbox One "The good news, for us, is that we’re presenting the best value right now in new home consoles," Reggie Fils-AIme told The Wall Street Journal, …
Read More »The Guardian or The Daily Star? YouGov profiler explains the real difference between Xbox 360 and PS3 owners
The ongoing war of wills between PlayStation and Xbox owners is as embittered and entrenched as any documented conflict throughout the course of human history. Well, that’s nonsense obviously, but a new profiling tool from market research firm YouGov has offered some bizarre data on the differences between typical PS3 …
Read More »Moderator removes World of Warcraft subreddit in protest at login issues
One of the most active World of Warcraft communities on the internet was this weekend temporarily suspended as an act of protest. The top moderator of Reddit’s World of Warcraft subreddit on Saturday suspended the page entirely as a result of his prolonged struggle to long into the game since …
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