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Last week’s MCV Awards 2014 kicked off with some of the industry’s greatest squaring off against the apocalypse – and you can see it all here on video. The short was filmed at Oriental City in Colindale, which has been derelict since 1998. Some – particularly Alex Verrey who used …
Read More »Kotaku UK is live
Future’s UK Kotaku site is now up and running in the UK. The site, the existence of which was revealed by MCV last month, is edited by Keza MacDonald. Also now named on the staff is news editor Leon Hurley, who joins from Official PlayStation Magazine. The launch of Kotaku …
Read More »Watch Dogs ultra PC specs detailed
PC gamers who want to run Watch Dogs at the very highest specs will need a pretty beefy rig. As confirmed by creative director Jonathan Morin on Twitter, to hit the ultra spec requirements users will need a multi-threaded four-core Intel i7-4770k CPU and a GeForce 780. The PC trailer …
Read More »Titanfall reclaims No.1 thanks to Xbox 360 release
Sales of EA’s shooter Titanfall climbed 220 per cent thanks to the Xbox 360 release, returning to the shooter to the top of UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. That means Warner Bros’ LEGO: The Hobbit has to settle for No.2 in its debut week, while last week’s chart-topper …
Read More »No digital release for Titanfall on Xbox 360
EA will not be releasing the Xbox 360 version of Titanfall as a Games on Demand download. After extensive testing, we felt that it simply did not represent the true Titanfall experience and it was decided not to release a Games on Demand version,” a statement on EA’s help pages …
Read More »Single player adventure mode coming to Hearthstone
Card battler Hearthstone is getting a brand new single player adventure mode, Blizzard has announced. It’s called Curse of Naxxramas and is set in ancient necropolis Naxxramas which is a base of operations for Kel’Thuzad and his rather unpleasant sounding plague-bearing undead host. 30 new cards are on offer in …
Read More »Driveclub won’t user microtransactions
The design director of PS4 racer Driveclub has stated that the game will not offer microtransactions. Evolution Studios’ Paul Rustchynsky tweeted a link to CVG’s review of Trials Frontier which labels the game a microtransaction monstrosity”, adding that: Even Trials has been infected by this plague.” When asked by another …
Read More »Atari now says the future is digital and on mobile
Another week, another new direction for Atari. The CEO of the struggling former games giant Frederic Chesnais has told NowGamer that the company’s future now lies on mobile – just over a year after founder and board member Nolan Bushnell said that mobile gaming was ”over”. "What we’re going to …
Read More »Magic 2015: Duels of the Planeswalkers gets Xbox console exclusivity
It appears that the next Magic: The Gathering game will not be released on PlayStation. IGN reports that Magic 2015: Duels of the Planeswalkers will be released this summer on Xbox One, Xbox 360, PC, iPad, Android, and Kindle but not on PS4, PS3 or Vita. This new title revolves …
Read More »Samsung Galaxy S5 arrives in the UK today
The latest iteration of the Galaxy Android smartphone series has gone on sale in the UK. The Samsung Galaxy S5 arrives less than a year after its predecessor the S4, packing a 16MP camera and an Apple-like fingerprint scanner. The Shimmer White and Charcoal Black versions of the Android-based handset …
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