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Call of Duty: Ghosts has just gone up for preorder on the Indian PlayStation Store and there’s a massive difference in price from the retail version. While you can preorder the disc version of the game at retailers for Rs 4,299, on PSN, it’s available for Rs 2,799 only. That’s …
Read More »Veteran game designer Gregg Barnett to speak at NGDC 2013
Gregg Barnett, creator of Commodore 64 classic VS fighting game The Way of the Exploding Fists, will speak at this year’s NASSCOM Game Developer Conference. Barnett was a key figure at Beam Software, which was later known as Melbourne House, before being acquired by Krome Studios. He is currently creative …
Read More »Milestone takes over EA Xbox distribution from Redington
Milestone Interactive will distribute EA’s Xbox games in India going forward, the company announced today. Milestone already distributes the FIFA publisher’s PC and PlayStation games, and with the addition of Xbox, it now distributes all of EA’s retail products. We are proud to acknowledge that our business relationship of the …
Read More »You’ll soon be able to share your Steam games with friends
Steam is set to introduce the new Family Sharing program that lets users authorise other Steam users to play their games. Through the program, one Steam user will be able to authorise a friend or family member’s Steam account and PC to have access to his/her games. The program is …
Read More »Grand Theft Auto 5 midnight launch in Mumbai, Pune confirmed
Midnight launches for Grand Theft Auto 5 will be held across seven stores in Mumbai, Thane and Pune, distributor E-xpress Interactive as announced. In Mumbai, Games the Shop outlets at Oberoi Mall (Goregaon), Infinity Mall (Malad), R City Mall (Ghatkoper) will be open for the midnight launch, as will Thane’s …
Read More »Trade in your PS2 or PSP, get Rs 3,000 off on Xbox 360
Microsoft and retailer Game4u have partnered for a new offer that gives users Rs 3,000 off on a new Xbox 360 console when the trade in their old PS2 or PSP. You can walk into any Game4u outlet and trade-in your used PS2 or PSP console to get a flat …
Read More »FIFA 14 demo out now for Xbox 360, PS3, PC
Update: The Xbox 360 demo is also up now on the Xbox Live IndiaMarketplace. It’s a 1.5 GB download. Original story: The FIFA 14 demo is out now on the Indian PlayStation Store for PS3 and on PC via Origin, but the Xbox 360 demo is still not to be …
Read More »Hike in prices of locally manufactured PS3 games due to "impact of forex rate", says Sony
Last week, we reportedthat Sony had raised prices for upcoming first-party PS3 games. Sony India has now said that the impact of foreign exchange rates is to blame for the increase. The move had raised a few eyebrows as, unlike third-party games, which are imported, Sony’s PS3 games are manufactured …
Read More »Update: Grand Theft Auto 5 price to remain Rs 2,999
Update:Grand Theft Auto 5distributor E-xpress Interactive has told MCV that it has not announced a price hike for the standard edition of Grand Theft Auto 5, adding that support from Rockstar Games has helped keep the Indian price unchanged. So, theGrand Theft Auto 5 standard edition will remain at Rs …
Read More »Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD headed to PC, PS3, Xbox 360
PS Vita title Assassin’s Creed 3: Liberation is making its way to bigger screens in 2014. Developed by Ubisoft’s Romanian studio, Liberation released alongside Assassin’s Creed 3 last year, and features the series’ first female protagonist Aveline de Grandpr. Aveline will also be making her way into Assassin’s Creed IV: …
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