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By Adam Hogan On 15 May, 2013 At 02:40 PM | Categorized As Featured, News, Nintendo 3DS, Pokemon X & Y, Previews, Videos | With No Comments
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  The official Pokemon Youtube account has posted a new trailer for the upcoming 3DS entries in the series, Pokemon X and Y. Those not familiar with Nintendo and Game Freak’s latest effort should set their faces to “stunned,” as this is the first main series Pokemon title to feature actual, honest to goodness polygonal [...]


By Adam Hogan On 15 May, 2013 At 02:44 PM | Categorized As Featured, God of War: Ascension, News, PS3, Title Updates | With No Comments
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Yesterday, Sony released a new downloadable content pack for the latest entry in the God of War series, God of War: Ascension. The dose of content, called Primordial Weapons, features new weapons and armor for the series’ extraordinarily angry anti-hero, Kratos. God of War: Ascension is a prequel to the well-known series, and was met with mild [...]


By Ed McGlone On 12 May, 2013 At 11:27 AM | Categorized As Featured, Industry, News, Next-Gen, PS4 | With 2 Comments
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Sony CFO Masaru Kato expects the PS4 to be a much more profitable console than the PS3, at least at launch according to recent statements at a earnings call this past week. ”Unlike PS3, we are not planning a major loss to be incurred with the launch of PS4,” said Kato. The PS3, because of its [...]


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Game Informer has announced that the magazine’s June edition is focused solely on bringing Playstation 4 coverage, starting with a 10 page feature on Sucker Punch’s highly anticipated game Infamous: Second Son – the good news does not stop there. The 30-page Playstation 4 cover story will also include new information and screens from titles [...]


By Ed McGlone On 9 May, 2013 At 12:07 PM | Categorized As Featured, Industry, News, Next-Gen, Xbox 720 | With 1 Comment
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Rumors have been circulating for months about the Xbox 720, codenamed Durango, that it would utilize always-online DRM seen in games such as Diablo 3 and Sim City, in order to block gamers from playing used games and requiring them to be always online in order to operate the basic functions of the console. However, [...]


By Kieran Mackintosh On 7 May, 2013 At 11:45 AM | Categorized As Featured, Industry, LucasArts, News, Star Wars | With No Comments
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Yesterday, EA’s Frank Gibeau (President of EA Labels) announced in a press release that Disney has chosen EA to “create new ‘Star Wars’ experiences for gamers worldwide.” Other sources say that Disney and EA have arranged a new multi-year exclusive licensing deal. EA’s agreement with Disney will apparently bring forward a whole new future of [...]


By Kieran Mackintosh On 7 May, 2013 At 11:44 AM | Categorized As Featured, Industry, Killzone: Shadow Fall, News, Next-Gen, PS4 | With No Comments
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When Mark Cerny (PS4′s lead system architect) revealed the PS4′s DualShock 4 controller back in February, there was one thing that confused me the most about the new controller: the curious blue light bar at the controllers top. As it turns out, the new controller itself has had quite a journey to become the one [...]


By Manny Vivas On 5 May, 2013 At 04:19 PM | Categorized As Featured, News, Next-Gen, Previews, PS4, Videos, Watch Dogs | With No Comments
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Community Developer for Ubisoft, Nik Schmidt posted up on Playstation’s Official Blog yesterday the first episode of Sony’s “Conversations with Creators,” an ongoing series that focuses on some of the worlds most prestigious game studios as they talk about their experience with PS4 game development. In this episode, Sony zeros in on Watch Dogs, Ubisofts [...]


By Manny Vivas On 3 May, 2013 At 04:23 PM | Categorized As Ext., Featured, Final Fantasy 14, News, PC, PS3 | With 11 Comments
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It has been three years since Square Enix released Final Fantasy 14, the highly anticipated MMO that turned out to be a colossal let down. This led to the development of Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn, which essentially is a relaunch of the original game. And though the official release date has yet to [...]


By Kieran Mackintosh On 1 May, 2013 At 07:59 PM | Categorized As Featured, Industry, News, Next-Gen, PS4 | With No Comments
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Quantic Dream’s co-CEO Guillaume de Fondaumiere spoke with GameSpot recently at the Tribeca Film Festival over the weekend past. Fondaumiere said that the studio is seeing a “big difference” with the PlayStation 4 over the PlayStation 3 during tests for its currently in-development PS4 game. “We are already seeing in the first PS4 tests that [...]


By Ed McGlone On 1 May, 2013 At 02:46 PM | Categorized As Call of Duty: Ghosts, Featured, News, PC, Previews, PS3, Uncategorized, Xbox 360 | With No Comments
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A product listing from online retailer Tesco Direct, has revealed some information on the next Call of Duty game due this year. According to the listing, the game “Call of Duty: Ghosts” will be released on November 4th, and will feature a new story, setting, and cast. While a new Call of Duty game being [...]


By Ed McGlone On 1 May, 2013 At 02:47 PM | Categorized As Featured, News, Nintendo 3DS, Wii U | With No Comments
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Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft have traditionally held big press conferences at E3, the biggest video game show of the year. However this year, Nintendo is breaking from tradition and will not hold the large presentation that gamers have become accustomed to. Instead, Nintendo is planning on having smaller more focused presentations.   “First, we decided not to host [...]


By Kieran Mackintosh On 30 Apr, 2013 At 08:44 PM | Categorized As EVE Online, Ext., Featured, News, PC | With No Comments
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CCP Games, EVE Online’s developer, has announced a creative partnership with Icelandic film director Baltasar Kormáku to bring the player-influenced universe of EVE Online to TV screens around the world. During the same day, CCP also announced a partnership with Dark Horse Comics to create a comic series based in the EVE Online (including DUST [...]


By Kieran Mackintosh On 29 Apr, 2013 At 05:58 PM | Categorized As Featured, News, Next-Gen, Xbox 720 | With No Comments
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Thanks to Polygon, who recently published an article (April 26th) with information from their sources, the Xbox 720 has a bunch of new rumours kicking about it. Polygon’s sources claim that the Xbox 720 will have expansions to its social and connected features, and that the console apparently won’t require an always-on internet connection to [...]


By Adam Hogan On 28 Apr, 2013 At 10:59 PM | Categorized As Featured, Injustice: Gods Among Us, News, Previews, PS3, Videos, Wii U, Xbox 360 | With No Comments
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The Youtube account for Netherrealm Studios’ superhero-fighting game Injustice: Gods Among Us has posted a trailer for their new downloadable character Lobo. The undeniably crass-yet-effective biker is featured in a match against Batman, and uses an array of brutal techniques involving punishing grapples and biker-themed items such as a chain and sawed-off shotgun. Lobo will [...]