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Publisher 505 Games has tied up with Milestone Interactive to release its forthcoming games in India. The first game to release through this partnership is Payday 2, the co-op FPS from Overkill Software (a subsidiary of The Chronicles of Riddick and The Darkness developer Starbreeze). Its predecessor, Payday: The Heist, …
Read More »Batman: Arkham Origins Collector’s Edition includes a 12-inch Batman and Joker statue
Warner Bros. has revealed the Collector’s Edition for Batman: Arkham Origins, and it includes a statue featuring Batman and Joker. Aside from the 12-inch statue and the game, the package will include the following: 80-page, full-colour hardcover artbook Assassin’s Intel Dossier, including files on the eight assassins, as well as …
Read More »Digital shift could mean game over for big publishers, Ed Fries says
Microsoft’s former games VP Ed Fries has warned big publishers that a digital gaming future could result in their demise He told [a]listdaily that the shift from physical to digital eradicates the very reasons large publishers were formed in the first place. Who knows if there’ll be big publishers in …
Read More »Gran Turismo 6 pre-Christmas release confirmed, but still no date
Sony has reiterated that Gran Turismo 6 will arrive this year, but is still shying away from nailing down a release date. Speaking with GTPlanet about the game’s release, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe president and CEO Jim Ryan said, It will be before Christmas [2013], definitely”. We gave a lot …
Read More »The Crew boasts "widest variety of car types ever seen in a driving game"
The Crew will offer the widest variety of car types ever seen in a driving game, the game’s community developer Soufyane Brahimi has said. While Ubisoft has yet to reveal a list of cars that will make it into the game, Brahimi says that there’s something there for every taste. …
Read More »Aveline returns in Assassin’s Creed 4; exclusive to PS3, PS4
Aveline de Grandpr, the star of Assassin’s Creed: Liberation, will appear exclusively on the PS3 and PS4 versions of Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag, Ubisoft has revealed. Aveline is the only female protagonist to have featured in the Assassin’s Creed game series so far, and she will make her home …
Read More »12 new Grand Theft Auto V screenshots
As we get ever closer to the release date of Grand Theft Auto V, Rockstar has released a batch of new screenshots. The new screenshots, which were released for the game’s recent round of previews, show off more of Los Santos and Blaine County as well as some of the …
Read More »Ashes Cricket 2013 delayed to November; "it’s not good enough"
505 Games and developer Trickstar Games have delayed Ashes Cricket 2013 once again, this time to November. That means that the game will not launch during the on-going Ashes series, something 505 Games had been gunning for after pushing back its initial 21st June release date. Put simply, the game …
Read More »F1 2013 gets 4th October release date
Codemasters has announced that this year’s Formula 1 game, F1 2013, will release on 4th October. This is the first time since F1 2009 that the annual F1 game will not release in September. And it’s not hard to see why, with both Grand Theft Auto V and FIFA 14 …
Read More »Rayman Legends announced for PC; Rayman Origins free with digital preorder
Rayman Legends, which originally started out as a Wii U exclusive only to be delayed and subsequently announced for Xbox 360, PS3 and PS Vita, is now also headed to PC. Developed by Ubisoft Montpellier, Legends is the follow-up to the critically acclaimed Rayman Origins. Ubisoft Chengdu will handle the …
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