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EA has gone live with its big TV ad for upcoming shooter Battlefield 4. It fuses gameplay footage with a narrator and is suitably loud and explosive. Yesterday MCV posted a load of short TV ads for Battlefield 4’s big rival Call of Duty: Ghosts – in fact, there’s another …
Read More »Xbox One headset adapter delayed until 2014
Turtle Beach has claimed that Microsoft has delayed its Xbox One headset adapter peripheral until 2014. The result is that the headphones specialist isn’t able to release its XO Four and XO Seven headsets until Q1 2014. "Microsoft has informed its partners in the Xbox One console launch that the …
Read More »The end of an era – Nintendo stops Wii production in Japan
Nintendo of Japan has confirmed that it has ceased production of the Wii. CVG spotted an addition to the console’s product page on the NoJ website that simply says ‘manufacturing has ended’. The same page earlier this month carried the message ‘manufacturing is scheduled to end soon’. That means that …
Read More »Poor Wii U sales behind reason not to bring Need for Speed Rivals to console
Need for Speed: Most Wanted did not put in the commercial performance on Wii U that EA was hoping for. And that, according to the game’s creative director Craig Sullivan, is the reason why the publisher is not bringing the upcoming Need for Speed Rivals to Nintendo’s machine. We did …
Read More »Warface now available in Europe and America
Crytek’s free-to-play PC browser FPS Warface is now available in Europe and America. Also going live in said regions today is Crytek’s equally as colourfully named GFACE network, which users will be signed up to if they play Warface. "Our goal with Warface has always been to show that free-to-play …
Read More »Windows 8.1 update causing mouse lag in some games – report
The long-awaited Windows 8.1 update seems to have brought with it more than just a Start menu. There are claims on Reddit that the OS update has also introduced some unwelcome mouse lag, with titles such as Deus Ex Human Revolution, STALKER and Valve games among those that are affected. …
Read More »Apple to pull HMV app by the end of the day
HMV’s now-controversial iOS app will likely be gone by the end of the day. Hilco founder Paul McGowan has confirmed on Twitter that Apple has set the retailer a deadline of 6pm today (Monday October 21st) to remove the app’s ability to download music files and have them added the …
Read More »US retailer Target cancels some PS4 console pre-orders
The delays of Watch Dogs and DriveClub have had an unfortunate consequence for a handful of gamers in the US. Kotaku reports that consumers who pre-ordered with the PS4 and Watch Dogs bundle or PS4 and DriveClub bundle with Target have not just seen their games cancelled – they’ve also …
Read More »VIDEO: PlayStation Memories ramps up the nostalgia
It’s almost hard to believe that we’re rapidly approaching two decades since PlayStation burst onto the scene. And in a stirring (for us old gamers out there) video Sony has wonderfully tapped into all of that nostalgia to show has times have changed since the debut of the first PlayStation …
Read More »Apple reduces iPhone 5C orders after low sales – report
The supposedly ‘budget’ debutant in Apple’s iPhone line-up is apparently not selling as well as was hoped. The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple has lowered orders for the device from its Asian manufacturing partners, while a handful of telecoms providers have admitted to lukewarm enthusiasm for the 5C from …
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