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Konami has released a PES-branded badge collecting football title on smartphones. It’s called PES Manager, although it’s actually a version of existing Japanese title World Soccer Collection S. It features over 1,500 licensed player badges and a 3D match engine. It’s all along the same lines as FIFA’s Ultimate Team, …
Read More »The Witcher 3 dev rules out platform exclusive content
CD Projekt Red will not offer different exclusive content on different platforms in The Witcher 3. Games such as Watch Dogs have recently come in for criticism for releasing a huge number of SKUs (specifically, ten) with certain content locked away for owners of specific partner platforms. This isn’t a …
Read More »Worms to make its next-gen debut this month
Team 17’s Worms Battlegrounds will be released on Xbox One and PS4 later this month. It will arrive both in boxed and digital form on June 30th, although the digital PS4 release in the US will arrive a tad later – June 3rd. The game is one of the first …
Read More »Tecmo Koei says Wii U’s Hyrule Warriors will sell a million copies
One million sales and beyond – that’s the expectation Tecmo Koei has for its in-development Wii U exclusive Hyrule Warriors. In gaming, this is a first-time collaboration,” Tecmo Koei president Yoichi Erikawa told Nikkei, as reported by Nintendo Everything. As a new entry in the Warriors series, we plan to …
Read More »Bandai Namco ‘seeking avenues’ for Dark Souls on PC post GFWL
The upcoming death of Games for Windows Live doesn’t mean permanent hollowing for Dark Souls. That’s according to Bandai Namco, which has pledged that the PC version of the cult RPG will continue working for the time being and eventually migrate to an alternative system. With the release of Dark …
Read More »SoulCalibur: Lost Swords has no multiplayer ‘because of pay-to-win model’
The producer of Bandai Namco title SoulCalibur: Lost Swords has apparently stated that the game was designed to use a pay-to-win” payment model. That, producer Masaaki Hoshino has told Siliconera, is the reason why the free-to-play fighter opted for singleplayer instead of multiplayer gameplay. Originally we were thinking about having …
Read More »Buy something at GAME for a chance to get some ‘virtual loyalty shares’
We’re used to retailers giving away free store credit, but virtual shares? That’s a new one. GAME yesterday announced that as part of its proposed flotation it would be offering 20,000 Reward Card customers some virtual loyalty shares” worth around 1.8m. As part of this, 2,000 customers who are not …
Read More »300 midnight openings planned for Watch Dogs at GAME
GAME has confirmed that over 300 stores will open their doors on midnight on the night of Monday May 26th for the launch of Watch Dogs. The main launch event will take place at GAME’s Gateshead Metrocentre store which will welcome a number of Ubisoft Reflections developers and host an …
Read More »Layoffs at Rare following Kinect Sports Rivals sales disappointment
An unspecified number of jobs have been lost at Microsoft owned developer Rare. Eurogamer reports that the move comes after sales of recent Xbox One release Kinect Sports Rivals, which was made at the Twycross studio, were lower than expected, resulting in a significant loss” for the project. It reports …
Read More »CD Projekt would consider an Early Access system for Good Old Games
With the likes of DayZ and Rust enjoying huge success on the Steam Early Access system, it’s no surprise the model has caught the attention of other digital retailers. And it looks as if Good Old Games could be the first rival to step up to the plate and offer …
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