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Upcoming toys-to-life range Amiibo can give Wii U hardware the sales boost it so definitely needs, Nintendo America boss Reggie Fils-AIme has argued. "I think Amiibo can have a significant impact on driving the install base for Wii U on the sales of figures themselves," he told Polygon. "I think …
Read More »Ubisoft confirms deactivated graphics options in PC Watch Dogs
Claims from modders that graphical tweaks for the PC version of Watch Dogs were deactivated prior to release ARE true, Ubisoft has admitted. The options were uncovered by modders earlier this week. The PC version does indeed contain some old, unused render settings that were deactivated for a variety of …
Read More »PS4 demand still outstripping supplies in Europe
Sony is still struggling to manufacture enough PS4s to meet demand in Europe. We haven’t yet caught up with the initial demand across Europe.” SCE UK MD Fergal Gara told TrustedReviews. We are still dealing with the day one market. We are very close to being in a full supply …
Read More »Bandai Namco scrapping F2P racer Ridge Racer Driftopia
Ridge Racer’s foray into the world of free-to-play is coming to an end in the summer. Bandai Namco has confirmed that it will turn off the game’s servers by August 15th. The Bugbear-developed title had been widely criticised for its implementation of microtransactions. The leading developer and publisher wanted to …
Read More »GOG: Gamers are not criminals and do not need DRM
The video games industry should follow in the footsteps of the music sector and rid itself of digital rights management (DRM). That’s according to GOG North America boss Guillaume Rambourg who told Eurogamer that DRM does nothing other than punish loyal gamers. "We totally believe that distributing games without DRM …
Read More »Dual-GamePad gameplay looking unlikely for Wii U
Nintendo has backtracked on previous plans to introduce dual-GamePad support for Wii U titles. The functionality was once promised for 2013 but is yet to be implemented in any of the console’s titles. That now doesn’t look likely to change anytime soon. "Certainly as we’ve been working on Wii U, …
Read More »PC Watch Dogs patch ‘in the coming days’
Ubisoft has said that a patch for the troubled PC version of Watch Dogs will be released in the coming days”. The game has had a troubled start to life, with modders claiming to have unlocked some allegedly deliberately blocked features and a promised patch to fix the numerous performance …
Read More »Amazon’s ‘shopping machine’ Fire Phone criticised
Despite expanding on the successes it has enjoyed with the Kindle, Kindle Fire and potentially promising Fire TV, Amazon’s new Fire Phone has been criticised by some analysts. Aside from the device’s 3D Dynamic Perspective screen, which tracks a user’s head and alters the screen image to create a pseudo-3D …
Read More »Phil Fish compares YouTubers to pirates
Oh, Phil. The ever-controversial Phil Fish yesterday took to Twitter to compare YouTubers who post game footage to pirates, before going on to delete or suspend his Twitter account entirely. "YouTubers should have to pay out a huge portion of their revenue to the developers from which they steal all …
Read More »Three staff cut as Polygon moves away from features and video
US games journalism powerhouse Polygon has dropped three staff members as part of a tweak to its editorial direction. Features editor Russ Pitts, video director Tom Connors and video editor and motion graphics designer Adam Barenblat left the website this month in a move that editor-in-chief Chris Grant links to …
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