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Superhero brawler Injustice: Gods Among Us is set to receive a playable demo next week, developer NetherRealm Studios has revealed. The demo will arrive on PSN on 2nd April, while Xbox Live will get it a day later. NetherRealm hasn’t released any details about what content or which playable characters …
Read More »Games The Shop ventures online through eBay
Games The Shop, India’s largest physical game retail chain, now has an online presence. However, rather than setting up its own e-commerce portal, the retailer has chosen to go the eBay Store route. The chain is a subsidiary of E-xpress Interactive, one of India’s largest game distributors, and has ten …
Read More »PSN kicks off spring sale on PS3, PS2, PS One titles
After Microsoft got its its Xbox Livespring sale underway yesterday, Sony has followed suit on PSN today. Up for sale are games such as Driver: San Francisco, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, Child of Eden, Trine 2, and a collection of PixelJunk games, all at least 50% off and an additional …
Read More »EA Mobile’s annual ‘Sweet Deals’ offers up to 90% off on iOS, Android, WP games
Here in India, we go from chilly winters straight into sweltering summers, without experiencing the pleasant mildness of spring. But at least we get to benefit from all the celebrations the season brings higher up in the northern hemisphere. After Xbox Live and PSN kicked off their spring sales for …
Read More »Nicholas, Lloyd, Slater join Ashes Cricket 2013 commentary team
Mark Nicholas, David Lloyd and Michael Slater will provide commentary for Ashes Cricket 2013, publisher 505 Games has announced. Nicholas, who serves as a television presenter n both the UK and Australia, will be the lead commentator, with Ex-England coach Lloyd and former Aussie opening batsman Slater providing expert inputs. …
Read More »DICE: Single-player a very important part of Battlefield 4
Calling Battlefield 3’s single-player campaign a fail”, DICE is aiming to infuse the true Battlefield experience into the campaign for Battlefield 4. We still have a lot of people who liked the campaign in Battlefield 3, but there were a lot of people who were like, this is not Battlefield. …
Read More »Positioning SimCity as an MMO would’ve justified always-online: EA
In a bid to justify the always-online design of SimCity, EA Labels president Frank Gibeau has said that the game has always had an MMO feel to it, and that positioning it as an MMO would have made the always-online nature of the game easier for players to get behind. …
Read More »Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain announced for PS3, Xbox 360
Hideo Kojima revealed at his GDC presentation earlier today that The Phantom Pain and Ground Zeroes are the same game – Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain. Kojima arrived at his GDC presentation with his face bandaged up, revealing what we already knew – that The Phantom Pain was …
Read More »Mobile revenue models not viable in long term, says Adam Saltsman
Adam Atomic” Saltsman, the man behind App Store successes such as Canabalt and Hundreds, isn’t convinced by the freemium model, which mobile game developers large and small seem to be flocking towards. However, he doesn’t think the App Store’s version of premium” pricing will cut it for long either. I’m …
Read More »New GTA5 screenshots: Skydiving, high-speed pursuits, and a Gatlin gun
Rockstar Games has quietly released ten new screenshots for Grand Theft Auto 5, and while there’s no press release accompanying them, the images themselves speak volumes. While one image shows a pier at night with lightening striking down from the sky, another features an urban skyline at dusk, showing off …
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