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Many of the ongoing legal tussles between smartphone giants Apple and Samsung have been called off. The pair have in a joint statement called a halt to all patent battles outside of the US, including those in the UK and eight other countries. The increasingly heated dispute between the pair …
Read More »PC claims 40% of Shovel Knight sales
Successfully Kickstarted indie platformer Shovel Knight has seen PC purchases account for 40 per cent of its month one sales. After a prolonged period of trying to furiously balance the books – which included five months where the development team were left unpaid – the game sold 75,000 copies in …
Read More »Ubisoft officially confirms Assassin’s Creed: Rogue; No Creed on Wii U this year
Assassin’s Creed: Rogue is now official and coming to PS3 and Xbox 360. As rumoured yesterday, the game will be released on November 11th. That’s two weeks after Assassin’s Creed: Unity which is due out on PS4, Xbox One and PC on October 28th. Nintendo fans will be particularly displeased …
Read More »Master Chief statue included in £170 Halo Collection Mjolnir Edition
Microsoft is including a 12-inch Master Chief statue in its 169.99 Halo Collection special edition. The Artfx model sees the Chief posing with a Battle Rifle and comes with two sets of interchangeable arms so he can be displayed in different poses. The Halo: The Master Chief Collection Mjolnir Edition, …
Read More »YouTubers more popular than movie and music stars amongst US teens
The world’s most popular YouTubers are now more influential amongst American teenagers than both movie stars and singers. That’s according to a Variety survey that found the top five most influential figures among 13-18 year-olds are all YouTubers, with games favourite PewDiePie and the controversial KSI among them. The others …
Read More »Video game pre-orders are in decline, and Call of Duty ‘is not immune’
Despite the seemingly growing emphasis publishers place on pre-orders, they are in fact in decline. That’s according to Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg who told investors, as transcribed by Seeking Alpha, that Call of Duty is just one of many titles to see a decline in pre-orders in 2014. You see …
Read More »iPhone 6 will be announced on September 9th, it seems
Apple has scheduled a media event for September 9th at which it looks likely to reveal the iPhone 6, numerous reports have claimed. A release for the device – or devices, as seems to be the case – will then likely follow in mid-September, possibly on September 19th. It is …
Read More »Codemasters refunding disgruntled Colin McRae buyers on Steam
Gamers who are dissatisfied with recent Steam release Colin McRae have been offered their money back. We understand that some people who bought Colin McRae Rally on Steam are upset and feel that it isn’t the game they thought it would be. We have now updated the product description for …
Read More »Retailers cancelling Destiny Limited Edition pre-orders
It’s not just the Ghost Edition of Destiny that is in short supply. VG247 reports that two retailers in the US – Walmart and Best Buy – have been contacting some customers who had pre-ordered the Limited Edition version of the game to say that they will be unable to …
Read More »Adelman: The Wii U name is ‘abysmal’, cut hardware sales in half
Nintendo of America’s former indie boss Dan Adelman has said that the Wii U’s branding is a big reason why the machine has proven to thus far be a commercial flop. Wii U is not selling as well as it deserves to. It has a lot to offer with great …
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