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Sony wants to change its reputation of making walled gardens

Sony wants to change its reputation of making walled gardens

Walled garden is a term for something that operates in a closed environment. For example, when you have to buy proprietary accessoriy for something that you can easily buy a third-party one for, a... Read More

Valve updates Steam Subscriber Agreement, adds no sue clause

Valve updates Steam Subscriber Agreement, adds no sue clause

So now you cannot sue Valve, Sony or EA if they mess up and you somehow fall in deep trouble. Of course, you are given an option to not accept the agreement, but who can do that when Steam is such a... Read More

Take-Two Q1 2013 results: GTA 5 release date TBA, $110.8 mil loss

Take-Two Q1 2013 results: GTA 5 release date TBA, $110.8 mil loss

Take-Two Interactive has had a very poor quarter where they have posted a $110.8 million loss, and this was due to poor performance of their two main titles they released last quarter - Max Payne 3 ... Read More

Assassin’s Creed creator says the first game is the ‘purest’

Assassin’s Creed creator says the first game is the ‘purest’

The original creator of Assassin's Creed Patrice Désilets believes the first title in the series is also the purest. Speaking to EDGE, Désilets explained the qualities that make Assassin's ... Read More

HAWKEN live action series to debut in 2013

HAWKEN live action series to debut in 2013

Adhesive Games' free-to-play shooter HAWKEN is getting a live-action series to debut in 2013, courtesy of Warner Premier and DJ2 Entertainment. Touted as Romeo & Juliet meets District 9, DJ... Read More

Jay Z becomes executive producer on NBA 2K13

Jay Z becomes executive producer on NBA 2K13

Jay Z today announced he is the Executive Producer on 2K Sports' forthcoming basketball title NBA 2K13. Announcing the news on his own website, it's unknown precisely what Jay Z will be bringin... Read More

Major restructuring sees Sega turn profit in Q2

Major restructuring sees Sega turn profit in Q2

Sega Sammy Holdings announced today that the company has returned to profitability following major restructuring across Europe. Posting revenues of £569m ($893m/¥69.9bn), Sega have seen a 7.1... Read More

Walking Dead Episode 1 & 2 free to PS+ subscribers in US

Walking Dead Episode 1 & 2 free to PS+ subscribers in US

US gamers canny enough to have a PlayStation Plus subscription can get themselves Walking Dead Episode 1 and 2 for free. As part of the 7th August PSN update in North America, Telltale Games ar... Read More

Jason Rubin predicts console game prices will mirror PC games

Jason Rubin predicts console game prices will mirror PC games

In an interview game GameInformer, THQ President Jason Rubin lays down his view of the structure of the console games market and his vision of how it'll eventually come to mimic that of PC games. ... Read More

OnLive Boss: “Limiting Cloud Gaming to Specific Devices Defeats it’s Purpose”

OnLive Boss: “Limiting Cloud Gaming to Specific Devices Defeats it’s Purpose”

Sony's Gaikai purchase has been met with some optimism. However, it does create some concern with such services being left exclusive to specific consoles. Bruce Grove, UK boss of OnLive, states t... Read More

SCE Boss Shuhei Yoshida: “We’re Not Done with SOCOM”

SCE Boss Shuhei Yoshida: “We’re Not Done with SOCOM”

Sony may have downed the shutters on Zipper Interactive, but it's key franchise - online first person shooter SOCOM - is far from dead. SCE leader Shuhei Yoshida spoke to Official Playstation Magazi... Read More

Treyarch: “Choice Events in Black Ops 2 Campaign Will Effect the Story”

Treyarch: “Choice Events in Black Ops 2 Campaign Will Effect the Story”

Treyarch has responded to questions asked by it's followers on Twitter. A follower asked if you can "change the storyline by the choices you make". Yes...One way we are doing this is through Str... Read More

Hideki Kamiya Shares Thoughts on Creation of Bayonetta

Hideki Kamiya Shares Thoughts on Creation of Bayonetta

Hideki Kamiya, Platinum Games designer and creator of Resident Evil, Devil May Cry and more, shared his inspiration behind creating Bayonetta, the critically acclaimed action game for PS3 and XBox 3... Read More

Final Fantasy III Announced for Ouya, More Content Incoming

Final Fantasy III Announced for Ouya, More Content Incoming

Ouya has turned the big three on their head, being the first Android console to be fully funded by a Kickstarter campaign (divide that sentence up, and you'll have three separate achievements right ... Read More

Dead or Alive 5 Info Talks New Launch Heights and Critical Threshold Systems

Dead or Alive 5 Info Talks New Launch Heights and Critical Threshold Systems

More info for Tecmo-Koei's upcoming Dead or Alive 5 has arrived, concerning launch heights and critical threshold systems: In the Alpha Demo and the E3 version, there were two levels of launch he... Read More

Square-Enix Details Changes and Omissions for FFXIV: A Realm Reborn

Square-Enix Details Changes and Omissions for FFXIV: A Realm Reborn

Who's excited for Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn? It would've been odd, a long time ago, to profess any kind of interest towards arguably one of the weakest MMOs of all time from a major company ... Read More

Journey Creator “Suspicious” of Journalists

Journey Creator “Suspicious” of Journalists

Jenova Chen might find things a little uncomfortable. Having developed flOw and Flower, he must be find it hard to deal with all the new found attention on him and his studio, thatvideogamecompany, ... Read More

Developer explains what it’s like developing for each console: PS3 being the hardest

Developer explains what it’s like developing for each console: PS3 being the hardest

Cory Bloyd who works at Munkeyfun studio has revealed how hard/easy it was developing for different consoles ranging from N64 to the PS3. And you guessed it right, the PS3 was the hardest. "I'll add t... Read More

3DS LL sells 200,000 units in 2 days in Japan

3DS LL sells 200,000 units in 2 days in Japan

3DS LL is on fire and it has sold almost 200,000 units in just 2 days after its official launch in Japan. Nintendo released these figures today, and were very pleased with the outcome. Another good... Read More

Nintendo on Wii U Pro controller: “We don’t want hardcore gamers to feel left out”

Nintendo on Wii U Pro controller: “We don’t want hardcore gamers to feel left out”

Katsuya Eguchi, hardware producer for Wii U, has revealed that they created the Wii U Pro controller -which looks like the Xbox 360- so that hardcore gamers wouldn't feel left out. It's also to make s... Read More