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Sony officially announced and named their motion sensing technology at the Games Developer Conference in San Francisco yesterday – the Sony Move. Despite inevitable comparisons to the Nintendo Wii, the Move offers several new innovations and a solid lineup of games aimed at the more hardcore market. First up, the Move has fewer buttons, no …
This modern twist on Breakout is much more than a clone. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, chances are that you’ve heard of the game ‘Breakout‘. To summarise – players control a paddle and eliminate bricks at the top of the screen, by ricocheting a ball off the walls of the screen, or the …
LOS ANGELES, CA – March 10, 2010 – Capcom®, a leading worldwide developer and publisher of video games, today released Street Fighter® IV for the iPhone and iPod touch onto Apple’s App Store. The hotly anticipated fighting game has been rebuilt from the ground up to take full advantage of the iPhone platform while still …
10th March 2010: Hanabi Festival, Nintendo’s celebration of Virtual Console gaming, returns starting on 12th March – with an all-star line-up of classics never before seen in Europe. Named after the infamous Japanese fireworks festivals, this year’s Hanabi Festival will light up your Wii with an explosive array of games. Hanabi Festival is a feast …
A new generation of FORMULA ONE games will come to high definition consoles and PC later this year as Codemasters® today announced that F1 2010 will be released this September for Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft®, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and PC Games For Windows®. As the official game of …
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Square Enix Ltd., the publisher of Square Enix® interactive entertainment products in Europe and other PAL territories, yesterday announced, to celebrate the launch of FINAL FANTASY® XIII, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) and Square Enix will be releasing a number of FINAL FANTASY XIII special items for PlayStation®Home on 11th March 2010. Purchase and pad …
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AGOURA HILLS, Calif. March 9, 2010 – THQ Inc. today announced the launch of the European E-Shop allowing gamers to buy, download and play a wide range of THQ PC titles including the award winning Warhammer® 40,000™: Dawn of War® II, Company of Heroes® RTS range, and explosive new titles like Red Faction®: Guerrilla™. In …
In a piece of news no doubt already on everyone´s radar, Square Enix launch Final Fantasy XIII today, both in the EU and the USA. Rather than tell you what you already know, instead we here at YARS want to offer you the best deals we could find, so here we go: The best 360 …
Valve announced that next month, Steam is coming to Mac OSX, with native compatibility with all Valve games. From launch day, stalwart favourites such as the Half-Life series, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike and Left 4 Dead will be available via the service, and running directly with no emulation software.Added features such as Steam Cloud and …
This weekend, that which was prophesised came to pass: Ubisoft´s PC authentication server for Assassin´s Creed 2 crashed, preventing anyone from actually playing the game. Ubisoft´s latest DRM measures for combating piracy involve a permanent link to their authentication servers, meaning the game would be unplayable without a constant internet connection. Unsurprisingly, this lead to …
After poor sales in recent months, several UK retailers are lowering the retail price of the PSPgo. Best saving goes to Amazon.co.uk, who are offering a ceramic white PSPgo for a fantastic £149.99. Thats a whopping £75 saving, to those who are counting. The same retailer is also offering the black version for £179.99.Many will …
Valve have confirmed the release of Portal 2 for “Holiday 2010” (read: Christmas), according to IGN. The sequel to the 2007 cult favourite was always considered a dead cert, but has now been cemented as a full price, stand-alone product. Although current news is thin on the ground, players can expect “a cast of dynamic …