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Gamestop: No economic sense in banning used games for PS4, Xbox 720

Gamestop: No economic sense in banning used games for PS4, Xbox 720

Gamestop CEO Paul Raines has revealed that it absolutely makes no economic sense in banning used games for the next gen consoles and it's a vital market that thrives on consumers. Earlier there was... Read More

Star Wars: The Old Republic going Free-to-play in November

Star Wars: The Old Republic going Free-to-play in November

EA and Bioware have announced that Star Wars: The Old Republic will be going free-to-play in November and they have also listed the advantages of paying $14.99 per month. The F2P option allows playe... Read More

EA posts $130 million loss for Q1 2013, BF3 and FIFA 12 outperform

EA posts $130 million loss for Q1 2013, BF3 and FIFA 12 outperform

It's time for EA's quarter 1 2013 press filing, and according to that they've posted a $130 million loss, but the entire business structure was quite solid. They pulled in $1.3 billion from digital ... Read More

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