Category Archives: Platform holders

Nintendo has found itself in the cross-hairs of human rights organisation Walk Free, which claims the Japanese company procures raw minerals needed to make its products through slave labour. Nintendo has since responded to the 400,000-strong petition, which demands the company disclose an audit of its operations in order to prove its innocence.

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Hotline Miami developer Dennaton Games has said that its PS Vita port is releasing “probably” next week. It comes as Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number was revealed and detailed yesterday. It’s a good time for ’80s neon and bloody skull–caving violence – if that’s your bag.

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Xbox One’s DRM, used game and 24-hour authentication policies have been dropped by Microsoft, and we want to know if the u-turn is enough to make you want to buy a console. Cast your vote here.

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Killzone: Mercenary gameplay was showcased at E3 last week, and Sony has released a 17-minute video full of raw footage of the game running in real-time, as well as insight from Tom Jones, the art director at Guerrilla Cambridge, not the Welsh crooner.

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Retro City Rampage developer Brian Provinciano has discussed the restrictive nature of Microsoft’s Xbox Live indie publishing policy. It has come under fire recently for being expensive, demanding that indies sign up with a publisher, and asking that studios sign an exclusivity deal.

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Super Smash Bros. director Masahiro Sakurai knows that there’s a vocal majority of players out there who loved Melee on Gamecube, and realises they will be back for more on Wii U and 3DS. So instead, he wants to focus on the silent minority who prefer Brawl and to win them back into the fight.

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Mind Zero developers Acquire – of The Last Guy fame – and ZeroDiv have released two new trailers for their spirit-summoning dungeon crawler. The game is currently in development for PS Vita and seems to pander to the Persona crowd, which is no bad thing I’m sure fans will agree.

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Deadfall Adventures developer The Farm 51 has released some screens for its FPS, which was – at one point – slammed for being nothing more than an Uncharted rip-off. It’s looking more like Indiana Jones x Painkiller now. Is that a bad mix? Decide for yourself here.

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Lost Planet 3 has received a new gameplay trailer care of Capcom and Spark Unlimited. It has nothing to do with Xbox One I’m afraid, but it’s still rammed full of action and big, stompy robots. You lot like that, right?

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“The internet” is currently involved in a frenzy of self-congratulation over Microsoft’s abandonment of Xbox One’s various DRM restrictions. We did it, the Ouroboros cries. Actually, you didn’t. Sony did.

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Xbox One’s DRM, used game and 24-hour log in policies were dropped last night, and the big changed will not impact the console’s Asian launch plans, Microsoft has confirmed.

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Xbox One’s DRM, online check-ins and used game policies were dropped last night, and what’s weird is that Michael Pachter predicted that Microsoft would admit it was wrong. In a new episode of Pach Attack, the Wedbush Morgan Analyst discussed the issues at hand regarding Microsoft’s policies, and

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Sanctum 2: Road to Elysion is the new DLC from Coffee Stain Studios. The content adds a new character called Tysgan into the tower-defence shooter mix, as well as additional story content and extra four maps.

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Compile Heart has opened a teaser site for Vita title Hyperdimension Neptunia Re; Birth 1, which was announced in March. Gematsu reports the site directs users to Dengeki magazine on June 27 for an update. We don’t know anything about the game yet, but there’s speculation it may be a remake of the first entry in the series.

Mad Catz has confirmed that it’s PlayStation 3 peripherals won’t work with PlayStation 4, but hasn’t announced any new products in support of the new console.

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Although it’s determined to offer something fresh and new with Titanfall, Respawn stuck to its strengths when it elected to make a shooter for is first project.

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Fire from the sky and demons in your closet; Microsoft’s reversal of its Xbox One DRM policies is the first sign of gaming’s imminent apocalypse, according to Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski.

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EA won’t bring back the Online Pass system it cancelled before Sony and Microsoft both adopted used game-friendly policies for next-gen consoles.

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A mysterious issues between Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition developer Beamdog and its publisher has stalled both projects.

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Describing Final Fantasy 15′s combat, director Tetsuya Nomura has confirmed that players won’t have access to all the skills and abilities Noctis uses in gameplay footage released at E3.

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