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The policy which demands that indie games for Xbox One do not arrive on other platforms first isn’t concrete. Xbox boss Phil Spencer has told the Inner Circle podcast, as reported by Eurogamer, that developers whose resources don’t stretch to making games for assorted platforms simultaneously can often be accommodated. …
Read More »Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker unearths a UK release date
Wii U title Captain Toad’s: Treasure Tracker won’t arrive in the UK in time for Christmas, Nintendo has confirmed. It will instead hit these shores on January 9th, following its Japanese release on November 13th and its North American release on December 5th. The game is a spin-off from the …
Read More »LittleBigPlanet 3 delayed by a week
PS4 and PS3 platformer LittleBigPlanet 3 is going to arrive slightly later than expected. The game had been due to be released in the UK on November 21st but will now launch on November 28th. We’re currently working our socks off with Sackboy and friends to get the game to …
Read More »Zynga launches New Words With Friends
Five years on from the release of the original, Zynga has updated one of the smartphone’s most successful properties. New Words With Friends brings with it a number of additions, chief of which is a solo-player mode for offline play that sees users squaring off against AI opponents. The game …
Read More »Sony targeting December launch for PS4 in China, report claims
The PS4 could launch in China in just two months, according to a new report. The machine is without an official release date in the territory but Bloomberg says that Sony plans to start packaging the console from December with the intention of selling 200,000 machines annually. Documents detailing the …
Read More »Microsoft CEO Nadella tries to calm gender pay controversy
Satya Nadella has said that he got it wrong when arguing that women shouldn’t ask for a pay rise in the tech workplace. Readwrite reports that the Microsoft CEO told an audience at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing that: It’s not really about asking for a raise, …
Read More »"Let’s be clear up front – Ubisoft does not constrain its games"
Ubisoft has released a fourth statement that it hopes will put to bed a week’s worth of headlines concerning the display resolution of Assassin’s Creed: Unity. Let’s be clear up front – Ubisoft does not constrain its games,” senior communications manager Gary Steinman said. We would not limit a game’s …
Read More »Here’s your Football Manager 2015 release date
Sega and Sports Interactive have announced the UK release date for Football Manager 2015. The game will be released on November 7th complete with the traditional extensive new feature list, with the focus this time being on personalisation and customisation opinions. Also included are a new UI and improved Match …
Read More »Apple becomes world’s fifth largest PC vendor
The fifth largest PC manufacturer in the world isn’t even strictly a PC manufacturer. But do away with the PC/Mac distinction and regard all computers for personal use as a whole, and Apple has overtaken Asus to grab fifth in the ranking behind Lenovo, HP, Dell and Acer who claim …
Read More »Star Wars Battlefront and Visceral’s game will be canon
LucasFilm has confirmed that two announced Star Wars video games will be canonical. The studio confirmed to GameSpot that both DICE’s multiplayer shooter Star Wars Battlefront and Visceral’s previously confirmed Star Wars project – which has Uncharted’s former creative director Amy Hennig on the team – will feature official plots …
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