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Take-Two wants its Mafia series to sit alongside Borderlands and BioShock as one of its biggest games franchises. The game is published by Take-Two’s 2K division and is being created by Hanger 13, a new development unit set-up to work specifically on Mafia III – which is due to launch …
Read More »Smyths to offer free Shiny Rayquaza and Pikachu visits in first promotion with Pokémon
Retailer Smyths Toys Superstores is teaming up with The Pokmon Company for the first time as part of a new campaign. As part of the inaugural retail activation between the two firms, the toy specialist’s 80 UK and Irish outlets will feature a range of activities and offers from the …
Read More »EA ‘investigating’ adding Xbox 360 games to EA Access catalogue
Backwards-compatible Xbox 360 titles could be added to EA Access in the future, the publisher has said. The paid subscription service currently offers a selection of Xbox One titles each month. Among this month’s selection is Dragon Age: Inquisition, leading one Twitter user to ask whether the offering could be …
Read More »YouTube streaming, Twitter video uploads and UI tweaks among PS4 firmware 3.00 changes
The next operating system update for PS4 is bring a wealth of new features to the console. It’s likely to be welcome news for players, after a number of minor updates over the last few months offering ‘stability fixes’ and little else. PS4 firmware 3.00 is currently in the midst …
Read More »Konami to shut down PES 2014 servers this November
The final whistle is about to blow for those still playing PES 2014 online. Konami has announced that it will pull online support from the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 football game on November 17th, just more than two years after its initial release. The move is part of an …
Read More »Dark Souls and Bloodborne creator Miyazaki planning ‘several new projects’, hints at ‘sci-fi Souls’
Hidetaka Miyazaki, the man behind Demon’s and Dark Souls, as well as Bloodborne, already has plans for the follow-up to Dark Souls 3. Speaking to GameSpot, Miyazaki said that the third entry in From Software’s gothic RPG franchise, set for release early next year, would be a ‘turning point’ for …
Read More »Games outpace films and music as decline in UK physical entertainment market slows to 3%
The ensuing popularity of boxed video games has helped to slow the retraction of the UK’s physical goods market. The physical entertainment business (that’s games, films and music) shrank by three per cent during Q2 of 2015, ending July 5th, according to market tracker Kantar Worldpanel. That’s quite a significant …
Read More »Mad Catz targets ‘significant’ European growth for Rock Band 4
Rock Band will finally crack Europe this year, publisher Mad Catz has told MCV @ Gamescom. The Harmonix-developed series is a huge seller, but has struggled to compete with Guitar Hero outside of the US market. We think Rock Band has the potential to find a far bigger audience in …
Read More »Vita and 3DS have ‘two to three years left’ in the West
The current generation of handheld games consoles will persist for up to another three years in Europe and the US, publisher NISA has predicted. Takuro Yamashita, president and CEO of NIS America, told MCV @ Gamescom that while publishers should be looking to transition from PS3 and Xbox 360 to …
Read More »Watch EA’s Gamescom 2015 press conference live here
EA is the second games giant to take to the Gamescom stage this year, and you can see all of the publisher’s big reveals first right here. We’re sure to see some more of Star Wars Battlefront, plus Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, Need For Speed, FIFA 16 and perhaps even a …
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