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EA has gone live with its big TV ad for upcoming shooter Battlefield 4. It fuses gameplay footage with a narrator and is suitably loud and explosive. Yesterday MCV posted a load of short TV ads for Battlefield 4’s big rival Call of Duty: Ghosts – in fact, there’s another …
Read More »VIDEO: PlayStation Memories ramps up the nostalgia
It’s almost hard to believe that we’re rapidly approaching two decades since PlayStation burst onto the scene. And in a stirring (for us old gamers out there) video Sony has wonderfully tapped into all of that nostalgia to show has times have changed since the debut of the first PlayStation …
Read More »VIDEO: Clarkson narrates Forza 5 video
Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson has lent his voice to Microsoft’s latest Forza 5 video. As you’re probably aware, Clarkson, May and Hammond will heavily feature in Microsoft’s Xbox One launch title, with the Top Gear track featuring as a playable course and Clarkson voicing elements of the Autovista mode. In …
Read More »VIDEO: Angry Birds Go gameplay shown, release date announced
Rovio’s latest entry in the Angry Birds franchise has been dated. The game will be released on December 11th and to coincide with the announcement Rovio has released its first gameplay footage. The kart racer was announced in August, with Rovio’s Kalle Kaivola stating: We’ve been playing around with a …
Read More »VIDEO: See Sony’s first PS4 TV ad
The first TV ad for PS4 has been released by Sony, and you can see it right here. It’s called ‘Perfect Day’ and sees two mates competing in a range of games (depicting an RPG, a racing game and Killzone), all while singing a version of the Loud Reed song …
Read More »VIDEO: Here’s how the Xbox One friends app works
Microsoft’s Major Nelson has released a new video detailing the Xbox One’s friends app. It reveals that as well as conventional friends functionality, Xbox One will also introduce the ability to ‘follow’ people – this effectively allows you to track their Xbox activity without the need for them to accept …
Read More »Take-Two among Twitch’s Series C funders
Streaming games TV service Twitch has announced a further $20m worth of investment. Interestingly, Take-Two are named amongst the companies who contributed to the Series C funding, although details of the level of its investment have not been disclosed. The money will be used to grow the company’s sales division …
Read More »VIDEO: How Assassin’s Creed IV compares on current and next-gen
Ubisoft has detailed the many visual additions that will feature in the PS4 and Xbox One versions of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. Points of interest include the rain effects, which see lighting applied to each individual raindrop, and the work that has gone into animating the oceans. Also highlighted …
Read More »VIDEO: How does Wind Waker HD compare to the original?
A new video has offered a direct comparison between the 1080p visuals offered by The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD and the GameCube original. Wind Waker HD is released in the UK for Wii U on October 4th. It was already a visually stunning game, so the jump to …
Read More »VIDEO: See the Call of Duty Ghosts campaign in action
Activision has released a video offering decent look at the campaign mode in Call of Duty: Ghosts. Gun battles in space, anyone? Everything is suitably dramatic with lots of explosions… and plenty of appearances from the new Call of Duty dog. Call of Duty: Ghosts is released worldwide on November …
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