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Rayman Legends may have dropped its Wii U exclusivity, but Ubisoft’s title has still been a success for Nintendo’s machine. The Wii U SKU accounted for 45 per cent of the UK’s total week one sales of the game. It was also released on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, with …
Read More »Pipe dreams: Where pipelines and workflows go next
Develop delves in to find out about the technologies and practices that are simplifying project pipelines
Read More »Splinter Cell Blacklist plagued by problems on PC
Both the Steam and uPlay versions of Splinter Cell Backlist on PC have suffered some significant launch problems over the weekend. PCGamesN reports that the Steam version in several territories outside of the UK, US, Canada and Australia remains unplayable, with the ‘pre-load’ button not yet being replaced by a …
Read More »Nvidia and Ubisoft form PC alliance; Splinter Cell bundles on the way
The PC giant will bundle Ubisoft’s Q4 releases with its latest hardware. Nvidia will support the release of Splinter Cell: Blacklist with a series of graphics card bundles following the title’s release on August 23rd. Consumers who purchase any card from Nvidia’s GTX 600 and 700 series from selected retailers …
Read More »VIDEO: Titanfall impresses at Gamescom 2013
There’s lots of positive noise coming out of Cologne today surrounding EA and Respawn’s multiplayer title Titanfall. A new Gamescom gameplay demo, which can be seen below, shows off some more of the game’s vertically empowered gameplay that sees confrontations quickly switch between street level and rooftops. It also illustrates …
Read More »PES 2014 release date confirmed; Will arrive ahead of FIFA 14
Konami has nailed down a UK release date for the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC versions of PES 2014. The football sim will be released on September 20th. That’s exactly one week before the arrival of the current-gen version of EA’s FIFA 14. The PS2 and PSP versions of PES …
Read More »The Division confirmed for PC; to get exclusive content on Xbox One
Ubisoft Massive has announced (video below) that its online role-playing shooter The Division is also headed to PC. The game was first revealed at E3 as a PS4 and Xbox One game, but citing fan demand, the developer will now also release the game on PC. Meanwhile, Microsoft announced at …
Read More »PC version of Call of Duty: Ghosts will look better than PS4, Xbox One
The executive producer of Call of Duty: Ghosts has said that the PC version of the game will boast the strongest visuals. That’s perhaps not surprising, of course – it’s not difficult to beat a next-gen beating gaming PC right now on a moderate budget – but with development currently …
Read More »Warhammer 40,000 card battler on the way
Just when you thought there were no more licensing opportunities left for Warhammer 40,000, Games Workshop went and found another. The tabletop giant has signed a deal with HeroCraft to develop a card battling game based on the IP that will be free-to-play. It’s due for release on PC, iOS …
Read More »AMD reveals Never Settle Forever free game offer
Free games have been a central part of AMD’s PC graphics card strategy for some time and the next version of its offer has at last been revealed. Called Never Settle Forever, it presents three tiers of rewards offering one, two or three free games respectively depending on what type …
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