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Nintendo may not be taking to the E3 stage this year but it will have a special Nintendo Direct tomorrow night. What should you expect? Zelda on Wii U, certainly, and most likely some Smash Bros. And some plastic NFC figures. Beyond that? We can’t wait to find out! So …
Read More »E3 2014: Watch Sony’s Press Briefing HERE
Sony will take to the stage in the early hours of tomorrow morning to showcase how it hopes to maintain PS4’s lead for the year ahead. The company dominated proceedings last year, but can it repeat the feat by capturing hearts and minds? That all depends on what surprises it …
Read More »E3 2014: Watch Microsoft’s Press Briefing HERE
Microsoft has the honour of getting us underway at E3 2014 later today. The platform holder has a big task ahead of it this year, with nightmares of E3 2013 still fresh in the mind. What surprises does it have in the bag to try and win back the faithful? …
Read More »E3 Mission Statements: What Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo need to prove
A year on from E3 2013 and perhaps the most surprising thing is that everything has panned out just as you might have expected. Admittedly, the extent of PS4’s sales lead is perhaps greater than you’d have thought, as is the extent of Microsoft’s policy U-turns. And arguably the extent …
Read More »VIDEO: Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain trailer leaked
Whoops. Konami’s Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain E3 trailer is available to watch online right now. Although likely not for long. The publisher has already begun trawling the internet and removing them, but for the time being there seems to be one source still hosting the short –which …
Read More »EA releases Mirror’s Edge 2 art ahead of likely E3 reveal
Mirror’s Edge 2 looks odds on toe feature as part of EA’s slate for E3 this week. The Mirror’s Edge Facebook page has released a new image, which can be seen in full below, which while not carrying the full Mirror’s Edge 2 branding can surely only point to one …
Read More »Sony dismisses The Last Guardian cancellation claims
IGN has apologised for a story published over the weekend claiming that Sony had cancelled The Last Guardian. It originally quoted an internal source speaking to IGN Russia” who said that confirmation of the game’s cancellation was shared at an internal Sony meeting last week. However, Sony’s head of software …
Read More »AMD says PS5 and Xbox Two will arrive sooner than you think
Don’t expect PS4 and Xbox One to hand around as long as their predecessors. That’s according to components supplier AMD which says that Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are already planning their successors. The life cycle of the products are probably going to be shorter,” AMD’s senior VRP and CFO Devinder …
Read More »Sony tops global console sales for first time in 8 years
Sony has re-taken the crown as the world’s most successful games console manufacturer. Nikkei reports, via AFP, that in the year ending March 2014 cumulative sales of PlayStation hardware – which presumably included PS4, PS3, PS2, Vita and PSP – reached 18.7m units. In the same period Nintendo sold 16.31m …
Read More »130 jobs lost at Nintendo Europe
Nintendo has announced 130 redundancies at its Groostheim office in Germany. "Nintendo of Europe has entered into a consultation process on a number of changes it is intending to make to its European business which, in the long term, will better enable the European business to adapt to the rapidly …
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