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Retailer GAME has chosen to highlight Ouya’s emulation functionality as part of its promotion for the console. GAME’s Ouya splash page features, amongst other things, the logo for popular SNES emulator Super GNES. The free software allows users to run any game for which they have downloaded a ROM (a …
Read More »Sunset Overdrive will use Xbox One Cloud but should be playable offline
Insomniac hopes for Xbox One title Sunset Overdrive to be playable offline despite plans to utilise Microsoft’s cloud computing network. "Our intent is that you will be able to play the single-player without an online connection," Insomniac president and CEO Ted Price told GameInformer. "The game will be updated with …
Read More »Mattrick could pocket $50m from Zynga switch
Former Xbox boss Don Mattrick could earn in the region of $50m from new employer Zynga. Reuters reports that the exec will in his first year receive a base salary of $1m as well as a joining on cash bonus of $5m and a $2m 2012 bonus – the latter …
Read More »Xbox One Reputation system will match trolls with trolls
Microsoft realises it can’t stop people being dicks. But it can protect everyone else from their insidious influence. That’s the idea behind Xbox One’s Reputation system, which will monitor a player’s behaviour and the responses they evoke in others over time to form a Reputation profile. As this develops, trolls …
Read More »Iwata says Nintendo must region lock due to "cultural acceptance and legal restrictions"
Nintendo looks unlikely to respond to pressure to reverse its region-locking policy with Wii U and 3DS. "From some people’s perspective, it might seem like a kind of restriction,” Nintendo president Saturo Iwata told IGN. However, we hope people can appreciate the fact that we’re selling our products worldwide. "There …
Read More »Green Man Gaming kicks off 666 Summer Sale
A six-day digital PC game sale has this afternoon begun at online retailer Green Man Gaming. Called the 666 Sale, it will be offering six separate deals every six hours across six days beginning today and lasting until Saturday July 6th. Today’s debut offer will see discounts on titles such …
Read More »UPDATED: First free Xbox 360 game for Gold members is Defense Grid: The Awakening
Microsoft’s Games with Gold program has kicked off with the first free title being offered to Xbox Gold Live members. The game in question is Defense Grid: The Awakening – a 2009 Xbox Live title that normally retails for 800 Microsoft Points. Two free games will be offered each month, …
Read More »Windows Phone shipments outpacing BlackBerry 10 by 3-to-1
New estimates paint a very bleak picture for BlackBerry 10. PocketGamer has done some number crunching following BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins’ admission that just 40 per cent (around 2.7m) of the 6.8m smartphones his company shipped in the last quarter were BB10 devices. For comparison, Samsung shipped an estimated 70.7m …
Read More »AMD Radeon HD 9970 and HD 9950 tipped for September reveal
Fresh speculation about the next line of AMD’s Radeon graphics card suggests a September reveal is on the cards. VideoCardz reports that AMD is currently working on the Hawaii silicon architecture that will power two new cards – the Radeon HD 9970 and the HD 9950. Previous reports had first …
Read More »EA’s online-only Darkspore could be broken for good
A problem with EA and Maxis title Darkspore has this weekend served a perfect illustrations of the perils faced by consumers with online-only titles. Polygon reports that the game has been pulled from Steam following persistent and unresolved server problems that are preventing many players from accessing the game or …
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