Watch Dogs busts Ubisoft’s sales records in this week’s edition of the Wrap, alongside stories about The Order: 1886 getting all ‘filmic’, the debut of Battlefield Hardline, and the Wii U making some waves in Japan.Watch Dogs busts records, is Ubisoft’s biggest launch everIf you were thinking that Watch Dogs…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Pullbox (or Pushmo, depending on where you live in the world) is one of Nintendo’s relatively new IPs, with two games (the second being called Fallbox) having been released on to the 3DS eShop exclusively. These games are truly charming spatial puzzle games, requiring players to…
Read MoreToday on the Wrap; Microsoft announces The Master Chief Collection for Xbox One, Nintendo defeats Wall Wireless in a courtroom grudge match, we get a first look at Space Hulk: Deathwing, and a better look at Batman in action in Arkham City. ‘Master Chief’ Halo collection coming to Xbox One…
Read MoreToday on the Wrap; Nintendo announces that they’re not out of the console game just yet, Sony talks a fourth year of consecutive financial losses, Media Apps go free for non-Xbox Live Gold subscribers, and a Kinect-less One is on the way. Nintendo not out of the hardware game yet;…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Nintendo’s on the kind of roll it probably didn’t want to be on – last week it hit some controversy over its stance on same sex marriage in one game. This week there’s a quieter controversy afoot, but it’s one centered around a very important game…
Read MoreReview by Chris I. I have fond memories of spending endless hours playing early home console first-person shooter (FPS) titles. We’re talking Doom, Wolfenstein and Quake, here – classic corridors, horrific monsters and ever more powerful guns to earn as you play. While the industry today has taken the genre…
Read MoreReview by Brad L. Ron Gilbert, Tim Schafer and Al Lowe; three people who pretty much gave me my sense of humour through the point and click adventure games they were involved with in the late-eighties to mid-nineties. As of late, there has been a resurgence of the genre through…
Read MoreNintendo posts another big time loss as they announce their own riff on Skylanders, Techland’s Dying Light slips into 2015, and Activision merges Neversoft and Infinity Ward into one studio to rule them all. Nintendo misses financial forecast again, posts huge loss For the third year in a row, Nintendo…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Update: Following the controversy, Nintendo has issued a statement apologising in full for the way it handled this issue. The statement in full below: “We apologize for disappointing many people by failing to include same-sex relationships in Tomodachi Life. Unfortunately, it is not possible for us…
Read MoreNews by Clark A. Just a month before E3, Nintendo has unceremoniously revealed two games that Pokémon fans have been clamouring about for years via a brief press release and a trailer. The third generation of Pokémon titles (originally released in 2002 on the Game Boy Advance) is officially coming…
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