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2K Games’ artistic shooter BioShock Infinite has remained at No.1 for a second week in the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. That’s despite a week-on-week sales downturn of 75 per cent. Square Enix’s Tomb Raider charts in second place for the third consecutive week ahead of the only …
Read More »Microsoft dev director dismisses always-on "drama"… then locks Twitter account
Will Xbox 720 require an always-on internet connection? It’s possibly the biggest question in console gaming right now. Some find it simply incredulous that Microsoft would make such a decision. But an alarming attack on always-on naysayers by Microsoft Studios creative director Adam Orth is arguably the biggest hint yet …
Read More »Bushnell tips Xbox 720 to beat PS4 in next-gen race
Atari founder and video games veteran Nolan Bushnell has said he believes Microsoft will emerge victorious in the next-gen console war. "Microsoft, because of their strong software tools, will end up with much better products sooner and easier, in my estimation," Bushnell said on GameTrailers show Rollin’ With Nolan, as …
Read More »Star Wars 1313 had been reimagined as a Boba Fett title… before it was scrapped
As if the news wasn’t bad enough for Star Wars fans… Kotaku has word that prior to the game’s cancellation yesterday at the hands of new owners Disney, George Lucas had personally given the in-development Star Wars 1313 a new direction – it was to be re-worked as a tale …
Read More »The Witcher 3 clefts DRM in twain
Upcoming RPG epic The Witcher 3 will be free of the shackles of DRM on PC. The news will be applauded by the gaming community, which has become vocally tired of draconian security measures that more often than not result in the official product being more prohibitive to users than …
Read More »New Thief based on Unreal engine 3; Next-gen console SKUs will look "almost" identical to PC
Square Enix’s Thief is not being built using the much-touted Unreal Engine 4. UE4 has been used very much as the poster child of next-gen consoles, but sadly production on the stealth game began before UE4 became available. And with a release not currently scheduled on current-gen consoles, it’s fair …
Read More »New iPhone entering production this quarter – report
The new iPhone either has or shortly will enter production, according to new reports. The Wall Street Journal reports that the new model will be similar in size and shape” to the existing iPhone 5, leading to the conclusion that we’re most likely going to see an iPhone 5S unveiling. …
Read More »The Wire and Lost are inspirations for Bungie’s Destiny
Hit US TV shows The Wire, Lost and Battlestar Galactica have been named as the inspirations behind Bungie’s upcoming online title Destiny. "I think typically, for the Halo games, we looked at movies. But really for this game, we looked at serial television; great dramas like Lost or The Wire; …
Read More »Inafune: Japanese devs "don’t know what to do or how to do it"
Former Capcom developer Keiji Inafune has once again lashed out at Japanese games developers and the state of games development in the region. I hope Japanese game developers are breaking through the stagnation,” he told IGN. However, the reality isn’t as good as I want it to be. I see …
Read More »Jet Li talks up eSports’ credentials
Chinese film star and martial artist Jet Li has argued that eSports are very much a ‘sport’ in the proper sense of the word. If poker card games and chess both have the players sitting down and are considered sports, why not virtual gaming as well?” Li said in a …
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