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Controversial Ouya title Gridiron Thunder will be released on September 30th, its developer has claimed. Gridiron was one of two games hoping to secure Ouya’s Free The Games Fund cash that attracted suspicion after allegations of improper conduct. The other, Elementary My Dear Holmes, saw its Kickstarter campaign suspended. The …
Read More »PS Vita TV likely to get Western release, Sony suggests
Sony has calmed fears that the recently announced PS Vita TV will not be launched in the West. Much of the game press latched onto a comment made by PlayStation CEO Andrew House in an interview with TechOn in which he stated that Sony is planning to sell the PS …
Read More »JJ Abrams "emotionally hurt" by quality of last Star Trek game
Hollywood director JJ Abrams believes that the poor quality of April’s Star Trek video game was detrimental to the success of movie Star Trek Into Darkness. The game has a Metacritic average of just 42 per cent on Xbox 360, receiving harsh criticism from reviewers. The last game, which was …
Read More »Gran Turismo 6 "about 80% done"; GT7 "a year or two" away
PS3 racer Gran Turismo 6 is due out on December 6th. And it’s about 80 per cent completed. Should that be a cause for concern, considering Polyphony’s less than stellar track record in hitting release dates? The basic components are already complete, so overall I’d have to say about 80 …
Read More »Fable Anniversary delayed until 2014
One of the Xbox 360’s last big retail releases will miss its 2013 release date. Developer Lionhead has confirmed that the game will now arrive in February 2014. We’ve been working hard for the past year to bring you the very best Fable Anniversary experience on Xbox 360,” it wrote. …
Read More »VIDEO: How Assassin’s Creed IV compares on current and next-gen
Ubisoft has detailed the many visual additions that will feature in the PS4 and Xbox One versions of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. Points of interest include the rain effects, which see lighting applied to each individual raindrop, and the work that has gone into animating the oceans. Also highlighted …
Read More »Analyst predicts 36m PS4 sales and 30m Xbox One sales by 2018
Futuresource Consulting has predicted that PS4 will enjoy a decent sales advantage over Xbox One over the next five years. It reckons that PS4 will have sold 36m units by 2018 with Xbox One having shifted just 30m units – although it expects both machines to fall short of their …
Read More »Microsoft developing Siri-rival called Cortana
Al character Cortana from the Halo series is to lend itself to a new Siri-rivalling tech from Microsoft. That’s according to ZDnet, which has collated a number of hints and leaks from across the internet to arrive at the claim. The tech can apparently learn and adapt, relying on machine-learning …
Read More »80% of Payday 2’s 1.58m sales were digital
The increasing importance of tracking digital sales has been highlighted once again by multiplayer heist shooter Payday 2. Its developer Starbreeze told investors last night, via a note translated by Eurogamer, that its game has to date sold a total of 1.58m copies. Perhaps more interestingly, however, it added that …
Read More »Get Grand Theft Auto V for free with Blockbuster trade-in deal
Blockbuster has revealed its own Grand Theft Auto V trade-in offer. Customers can trade-in any two games from a list of titles (that can be seen below) and get the game for nothing. The deal is limited to Xbox 360 and PS3 only. It also confirmed that 248 of its …
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