Valve Launches Steam Reviews
Steam users can now review, rate and recommend the titles that they have played through the Steam Community. Steam Reviews has been launched in beta today and lets the community create the reviews or rate other users reviews. The reviews will be displayed alongside Metacritic scores, which Steam currently links…
EA Drops the FIFA Manager Series
FIFA Manager founder and designer Gerald Köhler, made the decision to cancel the rest of the series, saying that “FIFA Manager 14 will be the last instalment of the football simulation series marketed by EA Sports.” Published in an open letter that went on to say: “The football manager genre…
PS4 Available to buy at London’s Lauch Event
Customers who haven’t yet placed a pre-order for the PS4 have an opportunity to attain a system at the PS4 Launch Event in Covent Garden. The queuing for the launch event will begin on Thursday morning, with consoles given on a first come first serve basis at midnight. Those queuing…
Lego The Hobbit is Based on the First Two Hobbit Films
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment today confirmed the rumours of a Lego The Hobbit game after leaked promotional materials. Lego The Hobbit will be based around the characters and stories from the first two of Peter Jackson’s trilogy of films interpreted from J.R.R Tolkien’s book The Hobbit. Players will take on…
Next Car Game Kickstarter has been Cancelled
Bugbear Entertainment has cancelled the motorsports title Next Car Game after it became obvious that it would not reach its Kickstarter funding goal. The post on their Kickstarter page read: “Although our Kickstarter campaign has attracted tremendous enthusiasm, during the last couple of weeks it’s become obvious that we are…
Halo Programmer Leaves Microsoft for Naughty Dog
Corrinne Yu, principal engine programmer for the Halo team, has left Microsoft to work as a graphics programmer for Naughty Dog. Corrinne Yu is celebrated as one of the most influential women in video games, after an impressive stint at Microsoft that started in 2008 and being director of technology…
Atari Classic M.U.L.E Coming to iOS
M.U.L.E was a classic strategy game that is now three decades old after its Atari 800 release in 1983; up until now the game has only been available on Atari emulators, but now M.U.L.E Returns is coming to iOS. The aim of M.U.L.E is to colonise on the planet Irata…
Battlefield 4 PS4 Update will Fix Crashes
The launch of Battlefield 4 has not been completely smooth, early on DICE had to recognise issues on PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and PC versions with frequent crashing and have already deployed some updates including a title update on the Xbox 360 version. DICE has now said that they have…
Sony Competition to Win A PlayStation 4
As part of the run up to the PlayStation 4’s launch in Europe on November 29th, Sony PlayStation has launched its I See Symbols campaign and will be giving away 25 new PlayStation 4 consoles. All they are asking is that you tell Sony which everyday sights remind you of…
Lego The Hobbit Game Could be Coming in 2014
It has been reported that an advertisement for the unannounced has appeared on some of the instruction manuals to Lego Hobbit sets that were required early from Toys R Us stores in North America. An image of the advertisement was posted on the Lego community site, Brickset, detailing that the…
Metal Gear Solid 5 has Exclusive Content on the Xbox
Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes will be getting exclusive content for the Xbox as was revealed last night at the Xbox One launch event last night in New York. The exclusive content for Ground Zeroes will be released for the console when the game launches next year, but no…
Neverwinter Expansion Shadowmantle to Launch December 5th
The second free expansion to the MMORPG, Neverwinter will be launched on December 5, 2013. The expansion, named Shadowmantle introduces a new Hunter Ranger character class and the Dread Rising Zone. “We’re incredibly excited to share the release date of Shadowmantle - our second free expansion”, says Cryptic Studios Executive…
Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse is out on iOS
Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse was one of the biggest games on Sega Genesis, alongside the classic of Sonic the Hedgehog. Earlier this year, Disney Interactive released the HD re-imagining of the game for some consoles and from today the game is available for your iPhone, iPad and iPod…
Xbox One will not Support Dolby Digital Sound at Launch
In a post on NeoGAF, Albert Penello, Microsoft director of product planning explained that it is “a SW scheduling issue pure and simple,” Dolby Digital is coming post launch… and I know people are disappointed, but we will have it. According to the post, Xbox One owners with a HDMI…
Tearaway Launch Trailer
Tearaway allows you to create your own world, and characters, as if you were fashioning them out of paper. You are able to reach into the game in a “god-like” way. The game has already received the Games Critics Awards: Best of E3 2013 title, but if you aren’t convinced…
EA will Continue to Make Games on Current Gen
With the next generation of gaming occupying most gamers’ minds, EA have stated that they will not be abandoning current gen systems. Speaking at the UBS Global Technology Conference this week, EA explained the difficulties faced with developing for two generations of gaming simultaneously. EA’s CFO Blake Jorgensen said: “Doing…
Next-Gen Tomb Raider Likely to Happen
Earlier this week rumours of a Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition sprung up after a post on Amazon Italy listed the game and some extra content (the page has now been removed). Now it has been hinted by Square Enix that the rumours may be true. "It’s so hard to keep…
The Elder Scrolls Online Invites More to the Beta
Additional invites were sent out today for The Elder Scrolls Online beta, the MMO role-playing game from ZeniMax Online Studios’. Those who received a beta invite are prompted to create their accounts and download the client as soon as possible. If you are signed up but haven’t received an invite,…
Watch_Dogs Setting the path for Assassin’s Creed with a Possible Shared World
Ubisoft open up about next-gen and their games travelling over the console change. "I think we're going toward a gaming place where the open world will be shared with other players. More and more. Socially speaking, but also maybe multiplayer stuff. And we will have to consider the open world…
White Xbox One Raises $11,300 for Charity
The bidding ended last night with the proceeds going to the Wounded Warrior project, set up to aid injured members of the U.S military. As well as the console it incuded the Kinect, a years Xbox Live subscription and copies of Forza Motorsport 5, Dead Rising 3, Crimson Dragon, Ryse:…
Ueda Apologises for The Last Guardian Delay
Speaking in the latest issue of Edge magazine, Fumito Ueda has apologised for the various delays with The Last Guardian. The Last Guardian was announced back in 2009 as the third instalment of the Ico games and since has encountered many various delays. Earlier this year came rumours that the…