EA announces Need for Speed Rivals

EA announces Need for Speed Rivals

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, PC, Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One On: 23 May

EA has unveiled the latest title in their long running Need for Speed franchise, entitled Need for Speed Rivals. The game is being co-developed by EA’s new Ghost studio and Criterion Games, the studio behind the Burnout series as well as the recent Need for Speed: Most Wanted.

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Arkham Origins will have playable Deathstroke, might feature 2 voice actors for Batman? [UPDATE]

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3, Wii U, Xbox 360 On: 20 May

The weekends are usually pretty light on news, but two interesting tidbits about the upcoming Batman: Arkham Origins were revealed on Sunday: the game will have DLC that will feature Deathstroke as a playable character, and contrary to earlier reports, it was announced that acclaimed voice actor Kevin Conroy will once again lend his voice [...]

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Deadly Premonition: Director’s Cut Review

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 On: 19 May

Deadly Premonition is a game that’s been described by a lot of people as “so bad it’s good.” While I’m glad that a game as strange as DP has managed to find an audience, I can’t help but feel that the game’s B-movie reputation is unfairly dismissive and reductive: sure, Deadly Premonition has some pretty [...]

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April NPD: Injustice Gods Among Us beats down the competition

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3, Wii U, Xbox 360 On: 16 May

Has it been a month already? I’m still busy playing through all the games I bought in March, and apparently a lot of you guys are too: according to the NPD sales data released today, April was a pretty slow month for the industry. Only 4 out of the top 10 bestselling games for the [...]

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Take-Two posts slight loss despite strong performance of BioShock Infinite

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 On: 15 May

Take-Two Interactive announced today that they’ll be posting a loss $31.2 million dollars for the last fiscal year. Despite not quite meeting their goals for the year, the company still has a surprisingly positive outlook: the company’s revenue actually rose quite a bit from the previous year, and with the upcoming release of GTA V [...]

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Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures is the Pac-Man reboot you didn’t ask for

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Playstation 3, Wii U, Xbox 360 On: 14 May

Pac-Man Championship Edition DX is one of the best downloadable titles of this generation — it’s fun, it’s accessible, and it’s insanely addictive. It’s what a retro revival should be: true to the original game, while at the same time making it feel fresh and new. Today Namco Bandai announced Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures, [...]

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Western Fans Might Finally Play The “Last Mission” In Final Fantasy X-2 HD

Posted By: Vincent Parisi In: Gaming News, Playstation 3, PSP / Vita On: 13 May

News about Final Fantasy X HD has been a fairly constant stream of side-by-side screenshots for comparisons, but aside from word getting out that the PS3 version of the remastering will include Final Fantasy X-2 for free, there hasn’t been much talk about extra content. Thanks to popular Japanese magazine Famitsu, through Yahoo, we now [...]

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Tales of Symphonia coming to PS3 in HD

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Playstation 3 On:

Tales of Symphonia is one of the most beloved J-RPG’s from the last generation of consoles, and now it’ll be one of the most beloved J-RPG’s on the current gen: today the series’ producer, Hideo Baba, announced that both the original game and its previously Wii-exclusive sequel are being ported to the PS3.

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Square Enix planning less console titles, more smartphone games

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 On:

2012 was a catastrophically bad year for Square Enix: despite the release of a few critically acclaimed games like Tomb Raider and Sleeping Dogs, the company posted an “extraordinary loss” of about $134 million dollars. Following the resignation of Square’s former CEO Yoichi Wada, the company announced that it plans to return to profitability by [...]

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Defiance renewed for a second season

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 On: 11 May

Defiance, the SyFy Channel TV show that ties into Trion Worlds’ MMO of the same name, has been renewed for a second season. Filming for 13 new episodes of the show will begin in Toronto this August.

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Sony posts first net profit in five years

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, Playstation 3 On: 09 May

Today Sony announced that they generated approximately ¥43 billion in profits (about $458 million at current exchange rates) during the 2012 fiscal year. This marks the first year in half-a-decade that Sony hasn’t reported an overall loss. The company is hopeful that this trend will only continue with the impending launch of the PS4.

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New Injustice Trailer Shows Off Batgirl Gameplay

Posted By: Vincent Parisi In: Gaming News, Playstation 3, Wii U, Xbox 360 On:

After a marketplace snafu inadvertently revealed Batgirl would be featured as an upcoming DLC character for Injustice: Gods Among Us, developer Netherrealm decided to go ahead and officially announce the bat-broad’s inclusion. Today, they’ve followed up that announcement with a first look at how Barbara handles herself against the likes of Joker, who many will [...]

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