Last week during SDCC Bioware hosted a panel dedicated to the development of Mass Effect 4 (still calling it that until a proper title is revealed). You may have read some of the articles that surfaced following the event, but now you can watch the actual panel yourself as the company was kind enough to upload it on Youtube earlier. ...
Read More »New Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain gameplay footage will be showcased at Gamescom
Konami revealed earlier this week that both Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain and PES 2015 will be featured at this year’s Gamescom. This is pretty exciting news already, but it only gets better. Community Manager @ParodiSu announced today that there will be an event dedicated to the upcoming title at Gamescom in Cologne’s Musical Dome on August 13th. Su also revealed ...
Read More »Xbox One vs PS4: Sony sold three times more consoles than Microsoft in Q1 2014
Sony Entertainment revealed its financial report for the first quarter of 2014, which began in April and ended on June 30. The results were rather surprising, but perhaps not completely unexpected. The company’s revenue from games saw an increase of 95.7 percent compared to the first quarter of 2013. Sony’s Games and Network Services branch managed to generate no less than 257.5 billion ...
Read More »F1 2014 revealed but won’t release on next generation consoles
Codemasters has finally announced that F1 2014, the Formula One racing simulator, will be arriving October 17. The title will not be releasing on next generation consoles though; instead, it will only be available for Xbox 360, PlayStation and PC. The publisher has confirmed that all the changes to the current season, such as turbochargers, rule changes and brand new ...
Read More »Deep Silver acquired all rights to the Homefront IP from Crytek
It seems that Crytek’s financial difficulties are more serious than we thought. Today the studio sold the rights to the Homefront IP along with all associated assets to its publisher, Deep Silver. Crytek UK has been busy developing Homefront: The Revolution for the last couple of months, although rumor has it that work had slowed down to a crawl lately due to financial reasons. Luckily, ...
Read More »GTA 5 rumored to get single player DLC, said to be PS4 exclusive
Rumor has it that Rockstar plans on releasing some downloadable content packs for GTA 5. Moreover, these DLCs will apparently only be released for the PS4, but they might also just be timed exclusive, so bound to come out on other platforms as well at some point. Users on the GTA forums have found some interesting information within the game’s source code ...
Read More »PlayStation users react angrily to Sony preventing EA Access on their consoles
PlayStation users have reacted angrily to the news that Sony purposely chose not to collaborate with EA with their new game subscription service, EA Access. Gamers have spoken out on social media, website comments and forums such as NeoGAF to complain about the decision. They argue that the company should have let customers decide whether the service was worth using, ...
Read More »Hearthstone players experiencing “purchase failed” error in Curse of Naxxramas
Update: I finally managed to purchase the Plague Quarter earlier with in-game gold. Blizzard announced a few hours ago that they “will be pushing out a hotfix tonight that should address a number of issues that some players are experiencing in regards to purchasing the Plague Quarter.” They also say that it may take some time before everyone who was charged ...
Read More »Call of Duty Advanced Warfare features three Collector’s Editions
Activision announced the Collector’s Editions for Call of Duty Advanced Warfare today. Yes, there are more than one. As you can probably imagine, each version is more expensive than the last, but also comes with more bonus content. The cheapest of them goes by the name of Atlas Limited Edition and costs $80. This version includes the Atlas Gorge multiplayer map, which ...
Read More »EA announces EA Access, a game subscription service
EA has announced that they are launching a brand new game subscription service called EA Access. The service, a partnership between EA and Microsoft, will offer Xbox One users the chance to pay a subscription fee to gain access to a variety of games from the publisher. “At EA, we are always looking for new ways to make it easier ...
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