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Free-to-play Xbox Live games are “inevitable”

Free-to-play Xbox Live games are “inevitable”

Hi-Rez Studios boss Todd Harris says free-to-play games for Xbox Live are nothing but an inevitability. He told Eurogamer that Microsoft has plans to introduce several F2P game on Live. This shouldn... Read More

Pokemon Black/White Lifetime Sales Over 12 Million, Mario Kart Wii Over 28 Million

Pokemon Black/White Lifetime Sales Over 12 Million, Mario Kart Wii Over 28 Million

Amidst all the bad news for Nintendo lately, here's a lone bright spot- along with Ocarina of Time 3D, which was reported to have sold in excess of a million units worldwide yesterday, two more Nint... Read More

King of Fighters XIII Gameplay Trailer with 4 CD Sountrack Edition Announced

King of Fighters XIII Gameplay Trailer with 4 CD Sountrack Edition Announced

The infamous King of Fighters game has its latest edition coming out, King of Fighters 13.  Atlus has announced that there will be a 4 CD Soundtrack Set available with the game.  View the latest g... Read More

Arkham City: Bane fighting alongside Batman

Arkham City: Bane fighting alongside Batman

According to the upcoming September issue of gaming magazine Edge, the superhuman villain, and long-time enemy of Batman, Bane will be fighting alongside the Dark Knight, not against him (via arkham... Read More

Report: Crytek cancelled TPS, now working on a new FPS IP

Report: Crytek cancelled TPS, now working on a new FPS IP

Superannuation has spotted a LinkedIn profile of Gameplay/Animation Programmer for Crytek, David Ramos, which says that Crytek was working on a new Third Person Shooter franchise called Redemption... Read More

3DS: Iwata chops off his own salary, takes responsibility for price cut

3DS: Iwata chops off his own salary, takes responsibility for price cut

During a meeting with shareholders in Tokyo, Satoru Iwata, Worldwide Nintendo President, took responsibility for the recent 3DS $80 price cut and also announced that he will be bringing down his sa... Read More

EA Sports unveils global cover athletes for FIFA 12

EA Sports unveils global cover athletes for FIFA 12

EA sports unveiled yesterday that Manchester United and Arsenal stars Wayne Rooney and Jack Wilshire (respectively) will be gracing the cover art of FIFA 12 in UK, Ireland, Scandinavia and the Midd... Read More

World’s first Deus Ex: Human Revolution review is in- PC Gamer awards it a 94

World’s first Deus Ex: Human Revolution review is in- PC Gamer awards it a 94

The world's first official review of Deus Ex: Human Revolution is in, and the reviewers- PC Gamer- have given it a score of 94/100. They say it is a “dark, cool and beautiful revival of an incre... Read More

PS Vita Might Not Have Had Its Specs Cut After All

PS Vita Might Not Have Had Its Specs Cut After All

Remember the report yesterday, which seemingly confirmed that the Vita had indeed seen a spec reduction, with the RAM in the base model in particular having been slashed to 256 MB? Well, it turns ou... Read More

NES & GBA Games Coming To 3DS Through Nintendo’s Ambassador Program

NES & GBA Games Coming To 3DS Through Nintendo’s Ambassador Program

Nintendo had previously announced plans to re-release old NES and GBA titles on the Nintendo eShop. This will be happening by the end of the year, but not quite as expected. Nintendo have no plans t... Read More

Xbox Live sees record growth rate

Xbox Live sees record growth rate

Microsoft has revealed that Xbox Live, which had 30 million users at the beginning of this year, now boasts of 35 million users. Robin Burrowes, Xbox Live product marketing manager for EMEA [Europe... Read More

Wayne Rooney and Jack Wilshire featuring on FIFA 12 box art

Wayne Rooney and Jack Wilshire featuring on FIFA 12 box art

It has been announced that this year's FIFA 12's cover athletes- the footballers who will be featured on the cover art of FIFA 12- will be Manchester United star Wayne Rooney, and Arsenal counterpar... Read More

Nintendo Selling 3DS Hardware at a Loss

Nintendo Selling 3DS Hardware at a Loss

Today's massive 3DS price cut that makes the hardware cheaper than the DSi XL at retail will allegedly cost Nintendo heavily, as Bloomberg Japan reports that for every 3DS unit that Nintendo sells, ... Read More

Tekken Boss: ‘If You’re Not On Xbox 360, You’re Doing It Wrong’

Tekken Boss: ‘If You’re Not On Xbox 360, You’re Doing It Wrong’

In what must be one of the most outspoken instances of a developer speaking out for the Xbox 360, Tekken series producer Katsuhiro Harada has said that all developers must ensure their games are o... Read More

Alleged PS Vita RAM cuts “good for developers”- PSP games developer

Alleged PS Vita RAM cuts “good for developers”- PSP games developer

Dani Sánchez-Crespo, CEO of PSP games studio Novarama says the alleged PS Vita RAM cuts are not a bad thing at all. In fact, he feels they will be "good for developers to work under constraint." S... Read More

Call of Duty: Black Ops Annihilation DLC, Now Available on Playstation 3 and PC

Call of Duty: Black Ops Annihilation DLC, Now Available on Playstation 3 and PC

The DLC Map Pack entitled 'Annihilation' for Call of Duty Black Ops which some say in the best content yet for the game, is now available for the Playstation 3 and the Windows PC.  It includes th... Read More

Homefront ‘The Rock’ Map Pack DLC Out Today Exclusively for Xbox 360

Homefront ‘The Rock’ Map Pack DLC Out Today Exclusively for Xbox 360

Today, July 28th 2011, 'Homefront' gets another map pack.  The DLC is called 'The Rock' and will include two maps as well as being exclusive for the Xbox 360 for a short period of time before it ... Read More

“There were little of original games” at E3 this year- Pokemon director

“There were little of original games” at E3 this year- Pokemon director

"This year, FPS war games were trend," Pokemon director Junichi Masuda in a blog post about his E3 impressions (via Siliconera). "A lot of splatter scenes!! Blood spread everywhere. Shooting a lot,... Read More

Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 Get Release Dates

Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 Get Release Dates

Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 have not only seen a change in their names from Super Mario 3D and Mario Kart 3D respectively, they have also been given official release dates by Nintendo. Sup... Read More

EA: Wii U Can Do Anything Xbox 360 and PS3 Can

EA: Wii U Can Do Anything Xbox 360 and PS3 Can

Third parties seem to be in love with the Wii U. So far, developers like Irrational, Activision, Ubisoft, Bethesda, DICE, Crytek, Epic and Junction Point have all sung praises for the hardware. No... Read More