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EA’s second-screen experience for battlefield 4 won’t be available to players on Xbox 360 or PS3. Speaking to Engadget, Battlelog’s assistant producer Jesper Nielsen said that the reason is the web-based tech powering the project. "When we set out to build [Battlelog in Battlefield 4], our biggest goal from the …
Read More »505’s Ashes game gets rival as Don Bradman Cricket 14 is revealed
A second cricket game is on the way to consoles and PC later this year. Home Entertainment Suppliers has announced Don Bradman Cricket 14, which will be out on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC later this year. That puts it directly up against 505 Games’ delayed Ashes Cricket 2013, which …
Read More »World of Tanks ‘will lead free-to-play charge on console’
The Xbox 360 version of World of Tanks will be a free-to-play experience the console industry has never seen before, says developer Wargaming. The firm announced its plans to bring the smash hit PC title to Xbox 360 at E3 in June. And Wargaming’s senior product marketing manager Pat Alvardo …
Read More »Xbox One designed to be left on for ten years
Microsoft looks to put early Xbox 360 overheating problems behind it with new hardware
Read More »Crackdown and Dead Rising 2 next up in Games With Gold
Microsoft has named the two games that will feature this month in Xbox 360’s Games With Gold offer. As of today, Microsoft’s hugely popular (and arguably never bettered) Crackdown will be offered to free for Xbox Gold members. Then from August 16th Capcom’s Dead Rising 2 and its digital prologue …
Read More »Codemasters drops online passes for F1 2013
Upcoming racer F1 2013 will not require users to input online passes, MCV can reveal. Codemasters first introduced online passes into its games in 2011. It’s not yet known whether this is the end to online passes in all Codemasters titles, although with all and sundry now distancing themselves from …
Read More »Get your first current-gen/next-gen comparison footage from new Watch Dogs trailer
It’s always hard to judge what sort of graphical step change a new generation of consoles will deliver. A video may look impressive, but our memories do funny things – sometimes it’s only when you go back to current machines that you realise just how big an upgrade the new …
Read More »Rumour: Microsoft to allow self-published games on Xbox 360
Self-publishing games on Xbox 360 –and subsequently XBLA – will soon be a reality, at least according to one developer who claims to have heard the info directly from Microsoft. Posting on The Pinball Arcade’s official Steam community page, developer FarSight Studios states that Microsoft has confirmed its intentions to …
Read More »Report: Xbox 360 to get self-publishing
FarSight Studios claims Microsoft is changing XBLA publishing policy in August
Read More »FIFA Ultimate Team data CAN be carried from current to next-gen
EA has announced that those who buy into the current-gen FIFA 14 launch in September will not lose their Ultimate Team progress if they go next-gen. FIFA 14 launches on all manner of platforms (although not Wii U, remember) on September 27th. However, a shiny new Frostbite-powered next-gen versions will …
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