GTA V Delayed

I changed my mind, sucker. Get lost before I sic Brutus on you..   Rockstar’s eagerly awaited Grand Theft Auto V has slipped from its expected spring release to a confirmed date of September 17, 2013. GTA V was confirmed as a spring release in October last year, but a statement issued by Rockstar has indicated that the game needs more time in development. This also happened to its predecessor, Grand Theft Auto IV, which was launched in April...

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Next Gen Consoles Will Lose Ground Over The PC

The next-generation consoles from Sony and Microsoft won’t enjoy the success of their predecessors, according to Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts. Speaking with NowGamer about his current project Star Citizen, Roberts dismissed concerns that the next wave of consoles would undermine enthusiasm for Kickstarter projects like his own. “I think consoles will be there and they’ll do decent business but I don’t think that the next generation of...

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TellTales Signs Of Success

On any given year, my favourite gaming moment is likely to involve an act of aggression. A gun battle, a fistfight, an all-out war. With guns or lasers, in landscapes both historically derived and entirely imaginary. There was that unexpected tangle between a giant and a dragon, with me caught in the middle. The blithe destruction of a small town against a vast irradiated wasteland. A flamboyantly brutal siege set to Tchaikovsky’s Waltz of the Flowers....

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Mission Details, Character Switching And Open World Heists

Dutch gaming website GameKings managed to get some face time with Rockstar Games’ Dan Houser to talk about Grand Theft Auto V. They’ve posted up their findings on a video to describe all they learned about the game during their trip to the studio. GTA fans have since translated the video feature into English, with some new details about the game and some clarifications about what the press saw at an event recently held by the studio. According to...

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CPU, GPU, APU And What Not.....

LIVERPOOL SOC Custom implementation of AMD Fusion APU Arquitecture (Accelerated Processing Unit) Provides good performance with low power consumtion Integrated CPU and GPU Considerably bigger and more powerful than AMD’s other APUs PU: Orbis contains eight Jaguar cores at 1.6 Ghz, arranged as two “clusters” Each cluster contains 4 cores and a shared 2MB L2 cache 256-bit SIMD operations, 128-bit SIMD ALU SSE up to SSE4, as well as Advanced Vector...

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The Alliance

To put it simply, this is the best cinematic trailer I have ever seen. The graphics quality so real, it would seem that real footage was used to create this trailer. Enough talk! Enjoy the trailer. Beta will be available as soon as the game is ready for testing. Everybody will have a chance to participate and make the game better. You will be able to be among the first who enter the world of Elder Scrolls Online. It is a great honor and a great...

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Creating A City Of Joy

SimCity creative director Ocean Quigley is not the type to obsess over building a perfect replica of New York City. He is not obsessed with building the perfect seaport or an accurate toll road. Having been the art director for the series going back to at least SimCity 4, his background is in art, which may explain why he tends to paint his worlds in broad and colorful strokes. “I don’t have a top-level philosophy on how things should go or how...

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Senseless Move By Visceral Games

Visceral Games has justified the controversial microtransaction system in Dead Space 3 by claiming mobile gamers expect them now. Well, that’s a totally reasonable … wait, what? “There’s a lot of players out there, especially players coming from mobile games, who are accustomed to micro-transactions,” Visceral’s John Calhoun told CVG. ”They’re like ‘I need this now, I want this now.’ They need instant gratification. So we included that option...

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Ever Got The Feeling You've Been Cheated?

Several major gaming press sites have been hoaxed by a disgruntled gamer who pretended to be a Microsoft employee who seeded rumours about next-gen hardware. Posing as an anonymous insider, the hoaxer distributed an email claiming to know details of the next Microsoft console as well as a dedicated Surface-based gaming tablet which was dubbed the X-Surface. The mail was sent out to a number of gaming publications early yesterday morning. Eight...

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Lead Combat Designer Expresses Frustration

The lead combat designer for Vigil Games has taken to the Neogaf forums to express his frustration at the Darkisders studio failing to find a buyer at the auction of THQ’s assets. While Relic, Volition, THQ Montreal and a number of IP found new homes, Vigil Games and Darksiders was left on the table. According to Cureton, who previously worked for Day 1 Studios and Namco America, Vigil had been working on a new project, codenamed “Crawler”, for...

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And The THQ Games Go To.......

After a few touch-and-go years of hanging by a financial thread, it looks like game publisher THQ is finally, completely done. After entering Chapter 11 bankruptcy and launching a bid to keep the company together by selling out to a single bidder, THQ saw its game development studios and properties sold off individually at auction this week to bidders including Ubisoft, Sega and Crytek. While the U.S. Bankruptcy Court still has to approve the proposed...

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NFS: Most Disasterous Mobile Game

From the moment you launch the game, you can’t help but try to distinguish this little voice coming from the game that says, ”I want your money. And I am gonna get it from you no matter what it takes!”. I have issues with this game from the very onset. My started with a puny car that wasn’t upgraded even when I had the money. No upgrades except maybe a paint job which you probably won’t like anyway. The mobile version of NFS Most Wanted can...

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Muscling In On Gaming

For the last decade, three companies have ruled the gaming console business with an iron fist. But that’s all about to end. In 2013, there will be over a dozen different companies competing for mindshare and money in the videogame hardware market. Small startups like Ouya, GameStick and Wikipad will join established players with deep pockets like Nvidia, Valve and Razer in an attempt to eat Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo’s lunch. Not to mention cloud...

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Atari Files For Bankruptcy

In the age of gaming corporate tomfoolery, the story of a venerable brand like Atari filing for bankruptcy is making a decent splash all over the media. Many of these stories are angling the story as an “end of an era” piece, the final “full stop” on a company that defined video games for a significant part of the ’70s and ’80s. While that’s partly true, the convoluted history of the Atari brand shows just how little the current “Atari” has to do...

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Ghost Protocol

It’s been a year since Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty, and what a year. Starcraft II is the definitive PC strategy game; it’s multiplayer and massive community re-invigorating e-Sports in the west. Now, it’s time for the first expansion pack. We’ve played two single player missions from the game, and talked at length to the games developers, writers and designers. What follows today are the main points from the presentations and playtests, along...

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Xbox Next Specs, Layout And Parts Detailed

Website vgleaks.com is claiming a world-wide exclusive by revealing the full spec for the upcoming next-generation Xbox, codenamed Durango. While there is obviously no official substantiation for the information posted, key elements of the spec match the overall outline of the hardware we have received from trusted sources and the leaker has come forward with proof about the origins of the information – and it appears genuine. First up, let’s deal...

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SimCity Come to the Classroom

Electronic Arts and digital learning non-profit GlassLab have announced SimCityEDU, an online community and resource based on EA Maxis’ SimCity. SimCityEDU will allow teachers to create SimCity-based lesson plans to help students learn about the issues facing modern cities and towns. “For decades, SimCity has been embraced by the educational community as an engaging videogame that also provides a powerful learning experience, teaching problem...

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The Open World Of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII

In spite of Claire Farron aka Lightning getting top billing, it would seem that the open world in this FFXIII sequel may be the real star. Role-playing fans tend to gravitate toward the genre because they love exploration, discovery, and adventure. Highly linear story-telling makes a much better bedfellow with first-person shooters than with RPGs. But more than that, I think Call of Duty’s narrative style works in Call of Duty because it places...

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