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The British Academy Games Awards take place in London tonight, and you can watch the entire event here. The event is being held at London Hilton, Park Lane, and will be hosted for the fifth consecutive year by comedian and gamer, Dara O’Briain. The nominations for this year’s Awards span …
Read More »The PlayStation 4 reveal – WATCH IT HERE
The long, long, long wait for the next generation of consoles is very nearly over. Sony will tonight, barring a Mayan-style global disaster, reveal the PlayStation 4 to an audience of international journalists in New York. What, you can’t make it to The Big Apple in the next 13 hours? …
Read More »Robert Downey Jr stars in live-action Call of Duty: Black Ops II ad
Activision has released a brand new live-action trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops II. Carrying the tag line There’s a soldier in all of us” the short sees a number of supposedly normal gamer folk facing off in a brutal city war scenario. And it also stars Robert Iron …
Read More »New-look PlayStation Store is now live in UK, across Europe
Sony has announced that the redesigned PlayStation Store is now live across Europe. The new-look digital storefront was supposed to roll out last week. And it did, for a while at least. However, a host of complaints from users including problems with account authentication and random crashes led to the …
Read More »Nintendo Wii U reveal dated; Don’t forget iPhone 5 the day before
The release date and price of the Wii U is expected to be revealed at 3pm UK time on Thursday September 13th. That’s the time Nintendo has confirmed for its big New York press event, that will be livestreamed around the world. It’s possible that the UK and European details …
Read More »WATCH IT LIVE: EA’s Gamescom press conference
EA’s Gamescom 2012 press conference is about to kick off, and you can watch the full thing below. Expect details of the company’s rich upcoming roster, which amongst other titles includes the massive FIFA 13, modern military shooter Medal of Honor: Warfighter and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. There may …
Read More »All-new Develop 100 goes live
Develop’s ranking of the world’s most successful game developers is back. Nowlive in the App Store, the 2012 edition of the Develop 100 features a list of the top 100 developers in the world based on the revenues generated by their games. It is available only for iPad, and costs …
Read More »MCV reports on Daily Mail story, descends into nonsense
Let’s get this straight before we even get to the details – this is definitely Microsoft’s fault. Not the kid’s for spending all the money. Not the dad’s for letting her child have access to her bank card. Dispel thoughts of bad parenting. Close your eyes, breathe deeply and become …
Read More »Live action Street Fighter series is real, on the way
A brand new live action TV series based on the Street Fighter franchise is on the way. Shoryuken! Called Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist, the thrilling, multi layered series” will explore the formative years of series’ protagonists Ryu and Ken. They are the last two students of the mysterious Ansatsuken discipline …
Read More »E3 2012: Watch the Nintendo press conference here, LIVE
As has become tradition, Nintendo will tonight be the final platform holder to take to the E3 stage in LA and wow the world with its latest hardware and software. We can be fairly sure what the agenda will be – Wii U, Wii U and perhaps some Wii U. …
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