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[Robin Chung]

EA Sports is developing a revised version of its face creation software used to recreate the world’s best football players onto the digital pitch. Dimensional imaging have architected the software and the new version is designed to make the process simpler, thus freeing up time for premium players in FIFA 13. In FIFA not every [...]

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[Robin Chung]

The daily users of smartphone app Draw Something are declining rapidly and relentlessly. Draw Some has lost over 5 million active since Zynga took over responsibility from OMGPOP just over two months ago. A daily user is determined as a user whom fires up the app at least once per day. Forbes was the first [...]

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[Robin Chung]

EA has presented the first tidbits relating its new footie FIFA 13. The FIFA series is a long lasting football game that appears in September or October of every year. Electronics Art is eying a September 29 release and released three the first screenshots earlier today. Several media have reported a host of new features [...]

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[Robin Chung]

Developer Infinity Ward was given more freedom from publisher Activision following the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. MW2 was released in 2008 and marked the 6th game of the series. Website Game Informer got hand on a gentlemen’s agreement earlier this week. The documents states that Infinity Wards would be given total [...]

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[Robin Chung]

Electronics Arts has announced that new versions of Dead Space and Need for Speed are in development for release before March 2013. Much is still unknown about the titles and in that respect EA wasn’t tongue happy either. At its recent conference call, the company announced new quarterly- and yearly sales figures. These events are [...]

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[Robin Chung]

Sony has announced a new white edition of the PlayStation Vita for the Eastern continent. The new device is equal in form and function to its black counterpart and will be available this June. The new PlayStation Vita surfaced in a promo video released by PlayStation Japan. The 1-minute video concluded by saying that the [...]

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[Robin Chung]

In Sorcery you play the role of a young apprentice trying to master his wand and magic spells to protect his homeland from the evil Nightmare Queen. Sorcery was first announced during the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) of 2010 and today Sony released the first ever making of trailer. The video shows how the technology [...]

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[Robin Chung]

Irrational games have shared word that the release of BioShock Infinite will no longer take place in October 2012. Instead the new shooter will be released in February 26th 2013. Infinite is the third BioShock and will no longer take place in water city Rapture. Ken Levine shared the news earlier today and says that [...]

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[Robin Chung]

EVGA has added two GeForce GTX 680 cards to its offerings adding the FTW (for the win) prefix. The products come in two flavors and differ mostly by the available video ram and design. Mostly staying put is the GTX 680 FTW. The card stays true to Nvidia’s reference design and amount of RAM. The [...]

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[Robin Chung]

In a lifetime we accumulate thousands of products, yet we only truly love a handful. Those are the products that keep on coming back and pop their heads back out every few years despite having become absolutely obsolete and clueless over the years. In our minds they are perfect and can do no wrong, but [...]

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[David Ignjatovic]

One of my friends had the 6800GT in 2004, and I got a X800GT in 2005, even though the 6800 was more powerful, the X800 seemed to produce brighter better colours, also, 6800 sucked for HDTV 1080i playback, but x800 was fine.
I noticed a huge diff in all round image quality going to a 4850 in 2008.

 

[Robin Chung]

Kaz Hirai (CEO Sony) has shared the company’s latest figures at a recent financial call with investors and announced that the company has sold 1.8 million Vitas in its 2012 fiscal year. Sony’s fiscal year ended on March 31st so the figures of April and May are not included. The PlayStation Vita was first launched [...]

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[Robin Chung]

Angry Birds developer Rovio has announced a new game called Amazing Alex. The title will be completely different and independent from the famous bird franchise. Mikael Hed announced the game in front of Finish television channel Yie during a breakfast show this Friday. Amazing Alex materialized after the studio purchased the intellectual property of a [...]

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[Robin Chung]

Microsoft is supposedly working on a browser for the Xbox 360 that can be controlled using the Kinect controller. The Kinect controller works by registering body movement and voice to control games and now possibly to surf the Internet. ‘Reliable sources’ close to The Verge broke the news and say it will be a modified [...]

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[Robin Chung]

Minecraft’s launch on Xbox Live Arcade is already a huge success. The game managed to sell 400.000 copies within 24 hours of its release and is thereby the biggest launch Xbox Arcade has ever had. Mincecraft developer Markus Persson “Notch” sent out a tweet within hours of the game’s launch saying the costs of development [...]

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[Senad Subasic]

"To add in a twist, minsters come out at night and require the players to stay on their feet at all times."

New Zealand monsters?

Awesome success with that game. I wonder how many millions they're playing with now.

 

[Robin Chung]

In the fall of this year, Ubisoft will release Avengers: Battle for Earth on the Wii U and Xbox 360. The game will adopt motion controls and appears to be a Kinect exclusive on Microsoft’s console. Avengers: Battle for Earth will be developer by Ubisoft Quebec and will not be based on the movie. Instead [...]

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[Robin Chung]

Bethesda will release Dishonored on October 12th in Europe for the three major platforms. The US and Australia will be able to start playing two days earlier. Dishonored was first revealed on July 2011 with the announcer saying that a release for 2012 is on the cards. Bethesda has today revealed that the release date [...]

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[Robin Chung]

Square Enix has announced the release date of the new Hitman game called Hitman: Absolution. The gun-for-hire title will be available on November 20th for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. The Japanese game maker also announced a pre-order bonus called Sniper Challenge, a multiplayer mini-game where gamers attempt to triumph by scoring maximum points in [...]

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[Robin Chung]

It’s time for out second giveaway at PlayDepartment where we will part with a Diablo III key, granting access to the entire game on launch day. All you need to do is register on our forums and leave a comment on this article. Simple right? We’ll run a randomizer 50x and the user that gets [...]

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