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E3 2013 brought a whole lot of new data to the next-gen console war, with games, features, and policies being discussed by Sony and Microsoft for their PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, respectively. Two main strategies are present in this new console battle, with the first being Sony's pro-gamer stance that practica... |
15 June 2013
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E3 2013 starts next week and it's going to be one of the most intense events in the history of the convention, as both Sony and Microsoft will show off their next-generation consoles, in the form of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, respectively.
Both consoles have received lots of details in recent months, with ... |
8 June 2013
15:21 GMT |
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E3 2013, the biggest video game related trade show in the world, takes place next week in Los Angeles and the stars of the show will undoubtedly be the next-gen consoles from Microsoft and Sony, the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4.
Both devices had reveal events that hinted at major changes and interesting video game... |
8 June 2013
13:01 GMT |
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Before the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One were even unveiled, gamers have been comparing the two consoles based on reported specifications and features.
Now, after both next-gen devices have been revealed, gamers are continuing this new edition of the console war, this time using actual, or in some cases speculative, sp... |
1 June 2013
15:11 GMT |
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When developer The Creative Assembly and publisher SEGA announced that Total War: Rome 2 would launch on September 3, they also revealed the rather impressive Collector’s Edition that fans could get, complete with an onager, Roman dice and a card game.
I’m not a fan of conspiracy theories but the informa... |
1 June 2013
13:11 GMT |
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After many months filled with speculation, reports, and rumors, Microsoft finally unveiled to the world the Xbox One next-generation console.
While it was rumored under all sorts of names, from the regular Xbox 720 to the Xbox Fusion or Infinity, the company revealed a rather awkward-looking console with a rather aw... |
25 May 2013
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Earlier in the week the team at Microsoft finally revealed the Xbox One home console, putting a stop to months of speculation about the name of its next-generation console and its core features.
The presentation offered information on the actual hardware and about some of the video games that will be linked to it, b... |
25 May 2013
12:31 GMT |
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Three weeks from now, the E3 2013 event will open its doors in Los Angeles and it's expected that most major gaming companies will flock to the City of Angels in order to showcase their latest products.
They will do so either in big conferences, like Microsoft or Sony, or in smaller gatherings, like Nintendo.
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18 May 2013
15:11 GMT |
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Developers at Polyphony Digital and publisher Sony surprised a lot of fans on Wednesday when they announced that the upcoming Gran Turismo 6 would be launched exclusively on the PlayStation 3 home console in winter 2013. The community expressed disbelief because it was widely expected that the new racing game would ... |
18 May 2013
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We're now a month away from E3 2013, the largest gaming event of the year, which kicks off on June 11 and lasts until June 13.At the conference, both Sony and Microsoft are expected to completely detail their upcoming next generation consoles, the PlayStation 4 and Xbox 720.Ever since before the confirmations of... |
11 May 2013
15:21 GMT |
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One of my recent passions is experiencing all content linked to the R.R. Martin created saga A Song of Ice and Fire and that includes a lot of time spent with Game of Thrones Ascent, the social game based on it that Disruptor Beam has created for Facebook.
This is, of course, linked to the fact that HBO is at the mo... |
11 May 2013
13:31 GMT |
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This week was marked by the confirmation of a major upcoming game, Call of Duty: Ghosts, and the appearance of fresh details about another great release, Grand Theft Auto V. Both games are set to sell millions upon millions of copies when they'll appear this fall and both will certainly drive off other games fr... |
4 May 2013
15:11 GMT |
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FIFA 14 is now an official project under development at EA Sports, but the announcement of this year’s installment of the most popular football simulator has left many of the fans a little underwhelmed, especially when compared to the flurry of excitement that accompanied last year’s reveal.
FIFA 14 has ... |
4 May 2013
13:31 GMT |
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After plenty of rumors, reports, and speculation, Microsoft finally confirmed this week that it's going to present the next Xbox at a special event held in its home campus of Redmond, Washington, on May 21.
The company didn't reveal anything else about the event so fans still need to rely on the variety of... |
27 April 2013
15:21 GMT |
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After the initial wave of awe at the sheer breadth and quality of BioShock Infinite passed, many gamers came to criticize the choice of the first-person shooter as the genre for the most recent title from Irrational Games.
It’s interesting to note that most of them are fans of the game and appreciate the world... |
27 April 2013
13:41 GMT |
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The Xbox 720 reports kept on appearing this week, with a pretty massive manifest leaking on the web with details about the actual console, which apparently includes an Xbox 360 chip for backwards compatibility, its Kinect 2.0 sensor, which eliminates input lag, or its controller, which has a longer battery life.
The... |
20 April 2013
15:21 GMT |
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Battlefield 4 is one of the biggest titles expected to launch this year, a first-person shooter that was revealed via an impressive Frostbite 3 engine powered 17-minute video, and one piece of news this week was that developer DICE had no plans to support motion tracking for it. Remember the marketing push that Micr... |
20 April 2013
14:11 GMT |
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The Hobbit was one of the biggest movie releases of 2012, but in the game universe, The Lord of the Rings franchise has long been a discrete presence, with the Turbine MMO currently offering the most complete experience to fans as long as they can accept the general concept of the genre.
Recently, The Hobbit: Armies... |
13 April 2013
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After the major controversy surrounding the mandatory internet connection rumor for the Xbox 720, Microsoft's all-but-confirmed next generation console has continued to occupy the spotlight in the last week through all sorts of leaks, reports, and rumors.Microsoft is still playing the waiting game with its next ... |
13 April 2013
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Without a doubt one of the biggest news that appeared this week in the gaming industry was a new report about the Xbox 720's mandatory internet connection, which apparently is still a key "feature" of Microsoft's next-generation console.
While such a requirement was already rumored for some time, only now ... |
6 April 2013
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A Counter-Strike fan created a map of his old high school in Canada for the shooter and then apparently used it to host a number of matches with former students, which caused the institution to get the police involved and find out whether the map maker had any violent intent.
The map is not publicly available and th... |
6 April 2013
13:31 GMT |
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After lots of teasing and plenty of leaks, Electronic Arts and DICE have revealed Battlefield 4 earlier this week, showcasing a massive 17-minute gameplay video that presents a mission from the single-player campaign of the upcoming first-person shooter.
While without a doubt the new shooter will be a gorgeous exper... |
30 March 2013
16:11 GMT |
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We’ve reviewed Gears of War: Judgment earlier during the week and, while my final score is a good one, I really, really wanted to give the game a lower one but I found that I was unable to explain such an action within the limits of a game evaluation.
I was never a fan of the exclusive Xbox series that Epic Ga... |
30 March 2013
14:41 GMT |
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Next week one of my most anticipated games of the year is going to appear – BioShock Infinite.As with many big games, I considered pre-ordering the game ahead of time and, thanks to the wide array of great offers brought forth by both Steam and other digital retailers, I ended up biting the bullet and pre-purch... |
23 March 2013
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The PlayStation Network once more suffered a relatively long downtime period in the middle of January, with Sony unwilling or unable to offer a clear end date for the maintenance work that was being done and some players unable to access the services they were paying for or get into multiplayer games. At least this ... |
23 March 2013
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After a pretty big debate at the beginning of the month microtransactions and DLC are continuing to dominate the gaming industry despite the fact that lots of gamers still strongly oppose these two mechanics.
EA caused a serious backlash when it confirmed that microtransactions will be added to all of its future gam... |
16 March 2013
16:21 GMT |
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I’m not sure what constitutes a fair price for a video game these days, especially given the massive presence of the indie system, the various discounts that major sellers employ and the every changing landscape of the pre-order space.
I’m sure that many of the companies that sell the biggest titles on t... |
16 March 2013
14:11 GMT |
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For a very long time, games industry pundits deemed that the PC platform would die a slow and painful death at the hands of consoles and, more recently, mobile devices like smartphones or tablets.
Despite these claims, the PC is now one of the healthiest platforms in many areas and, as we saw in recent weeks, next-g... |
9 March 2013
15:21 GMT |
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I am currently playing two free-to-play titles, The Banner Saga: Factions and Game of Thrones Ascent, which are very different when it comes to mechanics and themes, but manage to offer solid experiences on Steam and Facebook. Despite the fact that I give the two games time and love most of their mechanics, I curren... |
9 March 2013
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This week's major debate in the gaming industry has been about microtransactions and how they're slowly infiltrating, or corrupting according to some people, modern games. Electronic Arts has already gotten a lot of criticism over its new strategy to put microtransactions in all of its future games. While ... |
2 March 2013
17:01 GMT |
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The PlayStation 4 was officially revealed a little more than 10 days ago and I am already getting tired of hearing about the new Sony hardware platform and the amazing things it might or might not do on launch, later during 2013.
My biggest problem is not the fact that the company is increasing the hype level for it... |
2 March 2013
17:01 GMT |
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Without a doubt, the biggest piece of news this year has been the announcement of the PlayStation 4 earlier this week.
Even if Sony didn't exactly show the console, it revealed a variety of games for it, ranging from shooters like Killzone: Shadow Fall, to racing titles, like Driveclub, to more outlandish exper... |
23 February 2013
14:31 GMT |
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The PlayStation 4 next-gen console from Sony was revealed during a Wednesday event in New York, with Sony offering a lot of information on the device, ranging from the actual system specifications for the platform to the titles, like Killzone: Shadow Fall and Destiny, which gamers will be able to play on launch.
The... |
23 February 2013
13:51 GMT |
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The PlayStation 4 will (most likely) be revealed next week on February 20 during a special press conference in New York City.
Alongside it, you can bet that Sony will reveal a variety of games that will show off the power of the next-generation home console in terms of visuals, mechanics, and much more.
Ahead of an... |
16 February 2013
14:51 GMT |
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Aliens: Colonial Marines was launched this week, and almost immediately it became a candidate for Worst High Profile Launch of 2013, with critics attacking the game for its story, its lack of innovation, its limited mechanics, and much more. Our full Softpedia review of Aliens is more nuanced, showing a game that fai... |
16 February 2013
13:41 GMT |
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This week has been dominated by reports about used gaming and how it might not even be technically possible on the upcoming next-generation platforms, like the Xbox 720 or the PlayStation 4.
Second-hand gaming has been at the center of a crucial debate in the gaming industry in the last few years, as many retailers,... |
9 February 2013
15:01 GMT |
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In the middle of January many angry Star Wars fans reacted to the announcement that the Rise of the Hutt Cartel expansion would add same-gender relationships to Star Wars: The Old Republic by asking the development team at BioWare to revert the MMO to its previous state.
They claimed that the move was ruining Star W... |
9 February 2013
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Two big pieces of news appeared right at the end of the week, in the form of a delay for Grand Theft Auto V, which is now scheduled to appear on September 17, and the practical confirmation of the announcement for Sony's PlayStation 4, which takes place on February 20.
While one was quite sad, as no doubt milli... |
2 February 2013
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My guilty pleasure for the start of 2013 consists of sessions of the God of War: Ascension multiplayer beta now and then, both to get my adrenaline up and to contemplate once more on how hard it is for a medium-level player to actually become good when facing other real life humans. The current beta stage offers a n... |
2 February 2013
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Without a doubt, one of the biggest pieces of news in the last week was the auction of THQ's internal studios and its different franchises. While THQ's bankruptcy plan initially mentioned that the company was going to be bought outright by another entity, creditors objected and forced the company to organiz... |
26 January 2013
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The debate around violent video games seems to flare up almost on a yearly basis, with a number of commentators blaming the industry for the current ills of the society and with players and developers alike saying that there’s no connection between virtual violence and real world acts.
Actually, a connection d... |
26 January 2013
13:31 GMT |
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I’ve played quite a bit of the multiplayer beta for the God of War: Ascension and each session of the game, regardless of the time spent and the mode I tried out, left me with something that video games rarely give me anymore: a slight tremble in my hands.
The reason is the adrenaline that’s pumping through my... |
19 January 2013
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The long- awaited 2013 Consumer Electronic Show (CES) took place this week and, while quite a lot of interesting devices were showcased by different companies, ranging from Android-powered ovens to all sorts of phones, there were also plenty of great gaming announcements.
The first thing to appear from the trade sho... |
12 January 2013
15:41 GMT |
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Southington is a town in Connecticut that sits close to Newtown, the side of the horrific shooting that left many killed and injured, so sadness and a desire for blame is a natural human tendency.
Unfortunately, an organization called SouthingtonSOS has decided that violent video games are to blame for the shooting ... |
12 January 2013
13:31 GMT |
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Since we returned to work on January 3, 2013 we started running a daily feature called Incoming Games 2013, designed to offer players information about the most important titles to launch during this year.But a quick rundown of video games and details is not enough to contain the potential importance of 2013 for gami... |
5 January 2013
19:31 GMT |
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It's the beginning of the new year and, as always, we here at the Games section of Softpedia have begun our traditional Incoming Games series of articles, in which we highlight some of the most impressive titles that will (or at least should) appear this year. We already started with games that have received co... |
5 January 2013
15:41 GMT |
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I love video games, I play them every day and read and write about them for more than half my waking hours and during recent months a feeling of doom is starting to creep around the edges of my consciousness.
I am not an industry analyst and I lack access to private data from the big publishers or hardware makers, b... |
29 December 2012
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We're close to the end of 2012 and it's time to reflect on the different things that happened this year in terms of gaming, from great moments, to not so great ones and various controversies.Just like most recent years, 2012 was certainly filled with sequels, as all sorts of franchises have received new ite... |
29 December 2012
15:51 GMT |
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The winter holiday season is upon us and, for gamers, this usually means a wide variety of great sales, promotions, discounts, and offers, across all sorts of platforms, ranging from the PC to the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, or even the recently released Nintendo Wii U. Sadly, while all these promotions are great since... |
22 December 2012
15:51 GMT |
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I have so far backed two Kickstarter video game projects, one of which, the Project Infinity from Obsidian, actually got the funding it wanted and will be launched in 2014. The other one was withdrawn, even though it could have hit its own target, because the development team was able to communicate with the fan bas... |
22 December 2012
13:51 GMT |
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