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Amazon has revealed the Top Ten most pre-ordered games revealed at this year’s E3. On top are two Microsoft titles – game anthology Rare Replay comes in at No.1, while Gears of War: Ultimate Edition is second. Then its two titles from Bethesda – the new Doom title and Dishonored …
Read More »E3 2015 attracts 52,000 attendees
E3 2016 heading back to LA on June 14th to 16th
Read More »E3 2015: Female lead for Horizon: Zero Dawn made Yoshida ‘nervous’
PlayStation tested with several marketing and focus groups before reveal
Read More »Red Dead Redemption is the most-requested Xbox 360 game for backwards compatibility
Microsoft has been asking its fans what Xbox 360 games they want to see appearing on Xbox One via its nearly-announced backwards compatibility functionality. The platform holder has been lettings its consumers vote for the games they want to be playable on its newer hardware. So far only 22 games …
Read More »E3 2015: Bethesda aiming for ‘aspirational’ female characters in BattleCry
Executive producer Rich Vogel says studio was keen to make sure its female cast didn’t look like strippers
Read More »Ubisoft: We will be a VR industry leader
Publisher Ubisoft is the first major third-party publisher to back virtual reality. The firm is developing multiple VR projects with an aim of becoming an ‘industry leader’ in the technology. Ubisoft’s stance comes in contrast to some of its rivals, who have decided to wait and see before investing significantly …
Read More »Fallout 4 ‘must not miss 2015 release date’
Bethesda’s Fallout 4 must arrive this side of Christmas as promised, say UK retailers. Triple-A titles have continued to slip out of 2015, including the likes of Uncharted 4, Dead Island 2, Zelda, Quantum Break, The Division and more, weakening what had once promised to be a blockbuster end to …
Read More »Microsoft targets Xbox 360 owners with backward compatibility announcement
Microsoft has ramped up in its battle to convince Xbox 360 gamers not to defect to PlayStation. The platform holder’s backwards compatibility announcement at E3 was designed to try and convince some of the 84m Xbox 360 owners to stick with Microsoft. The platform holder, which has called this year’s …
Read More »That’s more like it: UK retail ‘delighted’ as E3 delivers the games
UK retailers have hailed a ‘momentous’ E3, as the event delivered on the games the industry desperately needed. Big titles such as Uncharted 4, Zelda, The Division, Dead Island 2 and Quantum Break had all been moved out of 2015 earlier this year, leading stores to tell MCV that E3 …
Read More »Kerbal Space Program PS4 take-off confirmed
Spaceship-building simulator Kerbal Space Program is coming to PS4. That’s according to the title’s developers Squad, who took to Twitter to announce that the previously PC-only release would be coming to Sony’s hardware. At its PlayStation Latin America event, Sony said that the title would be launching in 2016. Kerbal …
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