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The strong reaction to the inclusion of what appeared to be an attempted rape in a recent trailer for Tomb Raider is disproportional, Ian Livingstone has claimed. Edge reports that the Eidos life president told the audience at the GameHorizon conference that the industry should instead be celebrating one of …
Read More »Nintendo confirms 3DS XL Circle Pad Pro
It was a surprise when the 3DS XL was revealed without a second circle pad – that it’s getting a Circle Pad Pro expansion is perhaps less of a surprise. Andraisang reports the company has confirmed such a peripheral, and that it will be released in 2012. However, considering the …
Read More »Nexus 7 – the Google tablet is official
Google has finally gone live with details about its first official tablet PC – the Nexus 7. The device will come in two SKUs – a 159/$199 8GB version and a 199/$249 16GB version, putting it squarely up against Amazon’s Kindle Fire in the market. It houses Nvidia’s quad core …
Read More »Kid’s BAFTAs welcomes gaming nominations
BAFTA has appealed for nominations for the Video Game category in this year’s 2012 British Academy Children’s Awards. Former winners in the category include LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean (2011), Rabbids Go Home (2010) and LittleBigPlanet (2009). Other categories include Animation, Channel of the Year, Feature Film, Independent Production Company …
Read More »The Walking Dead: Episode 2 hits Xbox Live today
Telltale’s second title in its the Walking Dead series is due out on Xbox Live today, the company has said. The Walking Dead: The Game Episode 2 hits Xbox Live in all territories today, IGN reports. The PC and PS3 versions will arrive this Friday (June 29th). The exception, however, …
Read More »Io: Only 20% of players will finish Hitman: Absolution
Developer Io Interactive predicts that just one in five players will finish the upcoming Hitman: Absolution. Knowing that 20 per cent of the players will see the last level of the game,” game director Tore Blystad told OPM. It’s horrible to know. It makes the people working on it really …
Read More »Microsoft gives away free Kinect game
Kinect title Haunt is currently being offered for free to US Xbox 360 owners. It’s part of a new dashboard feature called ‘Kinect Central’ which looks to promote the motion-sensing camera to owners of the console. The promotion is for a limited time and will expire on Monday July 2nd. …
Read More »Tekken producer slams fans in net rant
Katsuhiro Harada, the producer of Namco Bandai’s Tekken franchise, has taken to the internet to deliver a scathing attack on fans of the franchise. I have something I want to say to the people who spam me with requests to ‘switch back to the voice actors used previously’,” he wrote …
Read More »Infinity Blade is Epic’s most profitable ever game
Forget Gears of War or Unreal Tournament – iOS series Infinity Blade is the most profitable game Epic has ever made. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney told GDC Taipei, as reported by Gamasutra, that: "We’ve been very happy with the game industry’s growth. "For a while we were worried that the …
Read More »Kaz Hirai resigns as Sony Computer Entertainment chairman
One of the key figures in the recent history of PlayStation has distanced himself from the business. Kaz Hirai has resigned his position of chairman of Sony Computer Entertainment. His role as Sony Corporation president remains unaffected. He will retain the role of part-time board member of SCE, meaning that …
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