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Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare could sell up to 15 per cent fewer copies than its predecessor Call of Duty: Ghosts, one analyst has predicted. That would equate to around 17m sales in calendar Q4. Cinemablend reports that Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia believes that gamers might be sceptical of …
Read More »Visceral says Battlefield: Hardline won’t repeat Battlefield 4’s mistakes
EA shooter Battlefield: Hardline is going to work at launch – that’s the promise of Visceral Games’ creative director Ian Milham. "What you’re basically asking is, ‘Is your game going to work?’ and the answer is yes, it’s gonna work,” he told Game Revolution. We actually started on this more …
Read More »Bungie says DLC is not already sitting on your disc
Destiny developer Bungie has seemingly played down accusations that parts of the game’s upcoming DLC is already present on users’ game discs. A video posted on YouTube shows a number of placeholders for missions, strikes, raids and crucible content that are allegedly scheduled to be included across two updates – …
Read More »Xbox One sales push past PS4 in UK after FIFA 15 and price cut sales spike
Sales of Microsoft’s Xbox One edged past PS4 this week as the machine enjoyed a massive sales spike on the back of FIFA 15. An anonymous retail source has told MCV that Xbox One hardware sales jumped 155 per cent week-on-week, presumably thanks to a combination of Microsoft’s recent price …
Read More »FIFA 15 sold more on PS4 and Xbox 360 than Xbox One in UK, report claims
Both the PS4 and Xbox 360 versions of FIFA 15 outsold the Xbox One SKU in the UK, according to numbers reported online. Metro claims that the PS4 release outsold the Xbox One version by 100,000 in the UK across Friday and Saturday, winning a 32 per cent share of …
Read More »Retro console Retron 5 accused of stealing open-source emulator code
Hyperkin’s Retron 5 console has found itself at the centre of an emulation code dispute. Game Politics reports that the company has been accused of stealing code from a number of open-source emulators including the SNES9x (SNES), FCEUMM/FCEUX (NES), VBA NEXT (Game Boy Advance), GenesisPlusGX (Mega Drive and assorted Sega …
Read More »Suarez bite ban applies to FIFA 15 as well
There are numerous exemptions to Luis Suarez’s four-month ban, but FIFA 15 doesn’t appear to be amongst them. The former Liverpool striker was banned from all football-related activity” for four months after seemingly biting Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini at the World Cup over the summer, although of course this didn’t …
Read More »Destiny and Call of Duty servers downed by DDoS attacks
Bungie’s Destiny was among the big-name games forced offline over the weekend, with a group of online pranksters claiming responsibility. It’s the second time that Lizard Squad has claimed responsibility for the pair’s servers being down. We don’t know for sure if it really is their work, but Bungie at …
Read More »FIFA 15 grabs No.1, accounts for 87% of total UK games revenue
There’s being No.1, and then there’s owning No.1. It’s no surprise that EA’s FIFA 15 is the new UK No.1, but the extent of its weekly dominance is incredible – UKIE Gfk Chart-Track says that the game accounted for 87 per cent of the UK’s total weekly market revenue and …
Read More »Xbox 360 receives Australian price cut
Microsoft has once again cut the price of the Xbox 360 console in Australia. GameSpot reports that AUS$100 (54) has been taken off the price for both the 250GB standalone and 250GB Kinect bundles, bringing them to AUS$199 and AUS$299 respectively. The 4GB Kinect console has had AUS$50 price cut …
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