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Ubisoft in gathering together all of its Assassin’s Creed games in a single SKU. It’s called the Assassin’s Creed Heritage Collection and will be released on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC and arrive in the UK on November 8th. Included in the SKU are Assassin’s Creed, Assassin’s Creed II (Game …
Read More »Ofcom says console ownership is in decline
For the first time in the history of Ofcom’s Children and Parents Media Use and Attitudes Report a decline in UK console ownership has been discovered. The latest edition of the Report says that 87 per cent of children live in a household with a fixed or portable games console …
Read More »Watch Dogs dev dismisses controversial PC game specs
The ‘leaked’ specs for the PC versions of Watch Dogs that appeared online yesterday were not official, one of the game’s developers has stated. These are not official configs,” graphics technical director Sebastien Viard said on Twitter. The real specs out soon and will be lower than [these] ones.” Much …
Read More »Konami vows to fix PES 2014 multiplayer on Xbox 360
Two weeks after the game was released in the UK owners of PES 2014 on Xbox 360 are still unable to access the game’s multiplayer modes. Users are presented with the error message ‘Download File is Broken’ when trying to install the required day one Data Pack. Konami promises that …
Read More »Ouya heading to new European markets
Android console Ouya is to become available in a host of additional European markets. An agreement with distributors Flashpoint and Digital Brothers will see the console hit shelves in Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Benelux, Scandinavia, Norway and Denmark. Meanwhile a separate deal with Action and PA will lead …
Read More »Grand Theft Auto V becomes second Western game to grab 40/40 from Famitsu
Esteemed Japanese weekly games magazine Famitsu has awarded Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto V an esteemed 40/40 review rating. GTA V becomes the 22nd game to receive top marks from the mag, Polygon reports, and only the second one that was developed outside of Japan – the first being Bethesda’s The …
Read More »Green Man Gaming named as headline sponsor for Golden Joysticks
Independent retailer Green Man Gaming has been named as headline sponsor at this year’s Golden Joystick Awards. This year’s event – which is the 31st, incidentally, and will hand out 15 awards – takes place on October 25th at London’s Westminster Park Plaza. "It is a privilege for Green Man …
Read More »Gree offers redundancy to 11% of workforce
Social gaming powerhouse Gree has revealed plans to offload 11 per cent of its 1,762-person strong global workforce. A translation from social games consultant Serkan Toto revealed that the company is to offer 200 voluntary redundancies, with applications being accepted between October 9th-28th. These losses will be in addition to …
Read More »Rockstar already has ideas for Grand Theft Auto VI
Ideas are already in the pipeline for Grand Theft Auto VI, the president of developer Rockstar North has said. We’ve got about 45 years worth of ideas we want to do,” Leslie Benzies told Develop in the first part of its Inside Rockstar North series. We don’t know what GTA …
Read More »Grand Theft Auto V petition nears 600,000 signatures
Nearly 600,000 people have signed a petition calling on Rockstar to release a PC version of Grand Theft Auto V. The game came out on Xbox 360 and PS3 last month but Rockstar has to date remained tight-lipped about a possible release on either PC or next-gen consoles. Its predecessor …
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