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February 7, 2013

Kairosoft Releases Free-To-Play ‘Pokemon-‘style game, ‘Beastie Bay’

Kairosoft is back with a new game on the App Store, and it appears as though the studio is testing the free-to-play…

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Ubisoft sales crest $1 billion during Q3

Ubisoft’s performance figures for the three month period ending December 31, 2012 have been released, and while we don’t have specific net/operating/sticky/whatever…

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Hit List Q&A: Frank O’Connor, 343 franchise development director

In the “Hit List” from the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, the video game industry’s top talents describe their current gaming…

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Watch Gabe Newell’s DICE keynote here

What is Valve president Gabe Newell’s “View on Next Steps?” Find out along with us, when he delivers his DICE 2013 keynote,…

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Ubisoft: ‘Fans certainly won’t have to wait four more years for next Far Cry’

Speaking in an earnings call today, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said “fans will certainly not have to wait four more years for…

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Rumor: New Xbox has natural speech detection, speech-to-text

Microsoft’s next Xbox, AKA Durango, will have much better speech detection, according to sources at the Verge. That includes natural language detection,…

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Next Assassin’s Creed set for fiscal year 2014, new hero, new time period

A new Assassin’s Creed game is coming in Ubisoft’s fiscal year 2014 – that’s between this April and March 2014 – and…

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Wii U-exclusive Rayman Legends to go multiplatform

Rayman Legends is no longer a Wii U exclusive, publisher Ubisoft has announced. The cel-shaded Rayman Origins sequel will now also be…

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Need For Speed Movie Adds Michael Keaton

Michael Keaton will lend his considerable talents to DreamWorks’ upcoming Need for Speed movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The actor joins…

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Rayman Legends delayed to September, also coming to Xbox 360 and PS3

Rayman Legends has been delayed once again, to “early September.” This is annoying news for Wii U owners, who already saw it…

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Capcom Arcade Cabinet brings back the classics on February 19

The Capcom Arcade Cabinet app for PSN and XBLA launches on February 19, staggering the releases of 15 classic games through May…

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Hands On: SimCity

As SimCity nears release (March 5th), we sent natural born mayor Cara Ellison to sit down with the game for a day….

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Ouya: "There will be a new Ouya every year"

Crazy free-love Kickstarted Android console Ouya isn’t even out yet and already the creators are talking about how they want to revise…

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‘Kairo’ Review – Minimalist Abstraction Never Felt So Good

Richard Perrin’s Kairo [$4.99], released under his Locked Door Puzzle label, is billed as a minimalist, first-person exploration puzzle game. That’s a…

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'New Assassin's Creed era' planned for fiscal 2014

Ubisoft Montreal's open-world titles do quite well for themselves……

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Rumor: LittleBigPlanet 3 is in development at Sonic All-Stars dev Sumo Digital

LittleBigPlanet 3 is rumored to be in development at British studio and Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed dev Sumo Digital. VG247 is…

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Assassin’s Creed 3 at more than 12M shipped, Far Cry 3 over 4.5M [update]

Update: During Ubisoft’s earnings call, the company revealed the sell-through percentage for Assassin’s Creed 3 is around 70 percent. Applying that to…

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HMV to close 66 stores

Move “necessary to give HMV the best possible chance of emerging from administration”……

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