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The lofty job of presenting the iPad’s games credentials to the world was handed to EA tonight, with exec Travis Boatman taking to the stage to show off an iPad build of popular racer Need for Speed. Though iPad games will be fundamentally the same as those found on iPhone, …
Read More »GT Academy downloaded 1m times
There can be no clearer demonstration of the huge appetite that remains for Sony’s much-delayed PS3 title Gran Turismo 5 than the huge success of the recently released GT Academy Time Trial demo. The teaser game has now been downloaded over 1m times across Europe, Australia and New Zealand since …
Read More »Gran Turismo 5 demo this month
As the long, long wait for Polyphony Digital’s PS3-only racer Gran Turismo 5 continues, Gran Turismo brand manager Penrose Tackie has confirmed that a brand new demo of the game will be made available on the European PlayStation Network on December 17th. Called GT Academy 2010 Time Trial, the Top …
Read More »Sega ramps up Bayonetta campaign with new demo
Sega is ramping up its PR for the critically acclaimed Bayonetta with a demo, which will hit Xbox Live Marketplace and PSN in Europe and America on December 3rd. The game has received huge critical praise already since its Japanese release, including a 10/10 in Edge and a 40/40 from …
Read More »FIFA 10 demo breaks EA records
EA has revealed via the FIFA Blog that its Xbox 360, PS3 and PC demo for the upcoming FIFA 10 has been downloaded more than previous demo the publisher has released. The demo went live a few weeks ago – and what a reception,” producer David Rutter stated. In the …
Read More »Nintendo games now play themselves
The movement to make gaming as accessible as possible to as many people as possible is about to take another step forward with the news that Nintendo is to introduce a new option in upcoming games that will effectively allow the games to play themselves. To find out exactly how …
Read More »MICROSOFT: Spring release for FFXIII
One of most controversial games of recent times has just been demoed by the game’s director Motomu Toriyama on Microsoft’s E3 stage – Final Fantasy XIII. There had previously been some confusion over whether coding on the Xbox 360 version of the game had begun, or whether work was being …
Read More »JAPAN: PS3 sales surge 274%
Never doubt the appetite for all things Final Fantasy in Japan – sales of PS3 rocketed last week after the arrival of a playable demo of Square Enix’s Final Fantasy XIII on the Blu-ray release of CGI movie Final Fantasy: Advent Children Complete. Sales of Sony’s machine hit 62,527, up …
Read More »Resi 5 demo sails past 1m downloads
Microsoft has confirmed that the recently released playable demo for Capcom’s massively hyped survival horror sequel Resident Evil 5 has been downloaded 1.8m times by European and North American gamers. The demo was first released on January 26th, though was available exclusively to Xbox Live Gold members until January 29th, …
Read More »JAPAN: FFXIII demo to ship with Advent Children
Publisher Square Enix has confirmed that a demo of Final Fantasy XIII will be included with the Blu-ray release of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children in Japan. The news first appeared in Japanese gaming bible Famitsu. However, there are currently no plans to run a similar promotion in other territories. …
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