The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt demo provided us with a good look at the combat aspect of the game. During the video we saw Geralt of Rivia easily dispatching bandits and cutting them in half. He then came across a griffin and defeated it surprisingly easy, which raised some questions regarding the difficulty of the game. While they don’t hold a candle to Dark ...
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343 gives some details on Halo 5’s mystery character
When Halo 5: Guardians was announced, fans of the series rejoiced at the return of the critically acclaimed franchise. An image was unveiled, stirring much excitement, but also some questions. The most important being: Who is that? A Spartan 4, the latest version of the Spartan Program in the series introduced in Halo 4, was shown reflecting Master Chief, the ...
Read More »Watch Dogs is the best selling game of May, Sony still in the lead
According to the NPD results for the month of May, Watch Dogs is holding the number one position when it comes to software sales. Overall sales for the month are considerably higher that they were in May 2013 with consumers spending $274 million just on games. This is a 57% increase from last year when they only spent $175. What’s ...
Read More »The Android patents that Microsoft was hiding have been revealed
Microsoft claims that most Android phones infringe on multiple patents, but has never revealed what those patents are. The company could make as much as a billion dollars a year on Android-related patents and wants to keep them secret, but the Chinese government revealed a list of more than 300 Microsoft patents and applications. These are from mobile phone technologies ...
Read More »Two more free games are now available for Xbox Live Gold members
Xbox Live Gold members can get a total of five games absolutely free this month. The Games with Gold feature has been available on the Xbox 360 for a year now, and has recently been added to the Xbox One as well. In order to celebrate the one-year anniversary Microsoft is giving Xbox Live Gold members a bonus free game. The Xbox ...
Read More »Destiny alpha phase extended for the PS4
The PS4 version of Destiny entered its alpha test phase on Friday and was supposed to last only throughout the weekend. However, if you have access to the alpha and try to play it you’ll notice that it’s still possible even though it should be over by now. Bungie came on Twitter earlier today and said that they are extending the ...
Read More »Scalebound already playable, but we can’t see it yet
Scalebound is a new IP that was revealed by Microsoft last week during their E3 2014 press conference. The game’s trailer looked really good, but unfortunately that’s all we have to go on for now. The company didn’t share a whole lot of details about the title aside from the fact that it is being developed by Platinum Games and it will ...
Read More »DirectX 12 will help improve the Xbox One
DirectX 12 was announced back in March at the Game Developers Conference 2014 that was held in San Francisco. The collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) is said to come with many more features than its predecessor. This will help a lot with the development work, which in turn will reflect on the games themselves. DirectX 12 will allow devs to be more efficient ...
Read More »Nokia’s plans for the Lumia 930 and new Windows phones leaked
We haven’t heard a lot rumors about upcoming Nokia devices from the new Microsoft Devices division lately. That changed a few days ago, when a new leak appeared on @evleaks. The information was provided by a “well-placed source” and goes into great details describing the future Nokia devices, from the ones already announced, to the ones only having a codename. The already announced, but ...
Read More »Phantom Dust reboot idea snowballed from Twitter
As you may have heard already, Microsoft announced at E3 2014 that a Phantom Dust reboot is currently in the works. The original game is an Xbox exclusive that came out back in 2005 for North America. The company didn’t reveal a whole lot about this new iteration at the event, but we did manage to learn a few details thanks to ...
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