• May 2013 - The Announcement of the Xbox One

    Its Now May 2013 and the Next Gen Console race is hotting up. Today May21st we have the announcement of the New Xbox One and details coming in all the time of the PS4. If your a fan of mobile phones then im sure you have already brought a Samsung Galaxy S4. If your after a WiiU then Target are selling the console at a decent £240.

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    Namco Bandai scores #1 in Japanese charts 

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    Published on May 22nd, 2013 22:39
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    Summon Night 5 knocks Tomodachi Collection off the top spot
    This week it was no change in the hardware charts, but a brand new number one on the software chart for Namco Bandai with Summon Night 5 for the PSP.
    Hardware sales fell across the board but the 3DS XL still managed 24,123, more than enough to keep it ahead of its nearest rival, the original 3DS, by more than 10,000 units.

    1. 3DS XL - 24,123 (Last week - 33,351)
    2. 3DS - 13,001 (16,412)
    3. PlayStation 3 - 10,948 (12,793)
    4. PlayStation Vita - 10,931 (12,331)
    5. PSP - 6,524 (6,360)
    6. Wii U - 6,037 (7,974)
    7. Wii - 1,143 (1,506)
    8. Xbox 360 - 349 (485)

    There were two new entries in the top five on the software chart, with a new number one and PS3 game Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse debuting at five.

    1. [PSP] Summon Night 5 - 105,511 (New entry)
    2. [3DS] Tomodachi Collection: New Life - 63,055 (Lifetime sales -925,108)
    3. [3DS] Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon - 20,304 (712,225)
    4. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf - 16,492 (3,217,351)
    5. [PS3] Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse - 12,373 (New entry)


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    Costco UK selling full-size F1 simulator for just £90,000 

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    Published on May 20th, 2013 14:54
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    Costco UK is selling an FMCG International F1 racing simulator for £89,999.89 (including delivery and installation!), or $138,338.83, which is still significantly cheaper than owning an actual Formula 1 car. We also assume it's probably atiny bit safer and easier to maintain, but that's just a hunch.

    The body is available in "your own choice of colour" and is made out of various combinations of composite materials, alloys and carbon fiber, with real wheels, tyres, chromed-out exhaust tips and everything. There's no engine or transmission, obviously, but it does come with one of those totally awesome detachable steering wheels.

    The gaming portion of the rig is powered by an Intel Core i7, an SSD of unknown capacity, 16 gigs of RAM and a non-specified graphics card outputting to three 23-inch adjustable TFT monitors. Meanwhile, sweet jams are pumped through a 5.1 audio system into both the car's body and your body, since the subwoofer is located directly behind the driver's seat.

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    UK chart: Metro: Last Light turns up top 

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    Published on May 20th, 2013 14:36
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    Koch/Deep Silver's new buy Metro: Last Light has stolen first place in the UK video games chart from Dead Island: Riptide, the publisher's other game.Last Light didn't, however, match the opening week sales of Metro 2033 - arguably the better game. What's alarming about about that is Metro 2033 only managed 5th, and that game was only for two platforms: PC and Xbox 360.It should be noted, however, that digital sales are not included in the official UK chart.Elsewhere, besides a new spin-off 3DS Pokemon game - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity - in 4th, there's not much to get excited about.Dead Island: Riptide was second, FIFA 13 third, Black Ops 2 fifth, Tomb Raider sixth, The Walking Dead seventh, Injustice: Gods Among Us eighth, Assassin's Creed ninth and BioShock Infinite 10th.

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    NVIDIA pushes up Shield public pre-order date, lets you hop in queue today 

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    Published on May 19th, 2013 00:08
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    NVIDIA newsletter subscribers have been able to pre-order the Shield handheld consolefor several days now, but the rest of us were due to wait until after the weekend. Considering that $349 price tag, we're not entirely sure we want to commit without having a chance to take the final hardware for a spin, but the option now exists nonetheless. Beginning today (instead of the previously announced date of May 20th), early adopters can hand over their cash at Gamestop, Newegg and Canada Computer, along with NVIDIA's own pre-order site, which we've linked for your convenience just below.

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    Amazon Kindle Keyboard 3G being discontinued? 

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    Published on May 19th, 2013 00:02
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    Amazon confirmed as early as last September that the Kindle Keyboard would besticking around, but much like your favorite dessert, nothing is forever. The Kindle Keyboard 3G is now showing as unavailable or out of stock at Amazon's site, as well as at Best Buy and Target. Of course, the last of those has had this here device on sale for what feels like forever, but it's still somewhat sad to see it come to the end of its road. It's entirely possible that the company's Lab126 is cooking up a replacement alongside those mythical smartphones, but it's unclear if such a conceptual piece is on the immediate horizon. We've reached out to Amazon regarding the disappearance, and we'll be sure to update this post as we learn more.

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    April NPD: Injustice: Gods Among Us reigns supreme 

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    Published on May 17th, 2013 00:00
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    Another hot, fresh loaf of financial data has been pulled out of The NPD Group's analytical oven, and its buttery goodness contains sales information for the four week period between April 4 and May 7, 2013. During that time, the physical retail sector of the games industry was down 25 percent when compared with its performance over the same four weeks in 2012, pulling in a grand total of $495.2 million. It's worth noting, however, that this figure doesnot include the sale of PC games.

    Hardware sales brought in $109.5 million, a 42 percent decrease from the $187.8 million seen last year, with the Xbox 360 once again enjoying the highest sales with 130,000 units moved. Meanwhile, the brief reprieve from year-over-year decline seen by the Accessories segment last month was short lived, as in April it by dropped 19 percent to a total of $131.4 million.

    Software sales (including PC games) topped out at $267.8 million, with NetherRealm Studios' Injustice: Gods Among Us taking top honors as the best-selling game for the period, the first time a fighting game has finished in first since 2011's Mortal Kombat. Dead Island: Riptide and BioShock Infiniterounded out the podium in spots two and three respectively – meanwhile MMO/Syfy series Defiance debuted in fifth. As always, scope the full list after the break.

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    Video games piracy is less prolific than feared, report claims 

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    Published on May 16th, 2013 22:41
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    A significant study by a group of universities has downplayed the significance of video games piracy.
    Wired has word of a joint study between the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University and the PLAIT Lab at Northeastern University as well as Robert Veitch from the Department of IT Management at Copenhagen Business School.
    It analysed the file sharing of 173 specific games across 14 platforms over a three-month period between 2010 and 2011. Titles included
    In total the study found 12.6m unique peers accessing the files Call of Duty: Black Ops, StarCraft II and Fallout: New Vegas.
    The ten most popular titles accounted for 42.7 per cent of the total with 76.7 per cent of the traffic coming from just 20 countries. Romania, Croatia, Greece, Portugal and Hungary were the most active relative to population size.
    RPGs were the most pirated (18.9 per cent), followed by action (15.9 per cent), third person shooters (12.7 per cent) and racing (9.3 per cent). Games that scored higher on Metacritic were in turn likely to experience higher levels of piracy.
    "First and foremost, P2P game piracy is extraordinarily prevalent and geographically distributed [at least it was during the period analysed],” Aalborg University’s Anders Drachen stated.
    “However, the numbers in our investigation suggest that previously reported magnitudes in game piracy are too high. It also appears that some common myths are wrong, e.g. that it is only shooters that get pirated, as we see a lot of activity for children's and family games on BitTorrent for the period we investigated."

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    BlackBerry Q10 coming to Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile 

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    Published on May 14th, 2013 23:52
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    We've gotten word of a new BlackBerry smartphone today, and we now also have some news about familiar one. Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile have all confirmed that they'll soon be carrying the BlackBerry Q10, although some are being more specific with details than others. Verizon is saying that it will be available sometime in June (it has an exclusive on the white version), while Sprint will only go as far as to say "late summer," with neither offering a price. T-Mobile will also be rolling out the phone sometime in June, and has confirmed that it will cost $99.99 down with its new plan structure, or $579.99 if you want to buy it outright. All this follows business registation for the device, which began last month. We've yet to hear anything more from AT&T, but it has already committed to the device and will presumably be launching it in roughly the same timeframe as well.
    Update: T-Mobile has reached out to let us know that while general T-Mobile customers have to wait until June, business customers can order the Q10 today, with delivery typically expected within a week.

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    Phones 4u gets exclusivity over white Huawei Ascend P2 

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    Published on May 14th, 2013 22:44
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    Phones 4u has today (May 14th) confirmed that it will be the exclusive retailer of the Huawei Ascend P2 when it launches next month.
    The retailer also announced that it will be stocking the newNokia Lumia 925, which was officially unveiled earlier today.
    Scott Hooton, Phones 4u’s chief commercial officer, commented: “Phones 4u has a strong heritage in offering a wide range of the latest smartphones and in securing handset colour exclusives for our customers. We’re pleased to be carrying on this tradition by adding the new Nokia Lumia 925 to our range and by being selected as the exclusive retailer of the white Huawei P2.
    “We also have a track record of bringing Nokia Lumia handsets to the market before anyone else, and in 2012 we were the first retailer to launch the Nokia Lumia 900 outside of the US. We’re anticipating a good reception to the Nokia Lumia 925, as we know from YouGov research[1] that customers with Nokia devices currently rate handset satisfaction and quality at eight out of ten.”
    It was also announced today that O2 would be given exclusivity over the white model of the new Nokia Lumia 925.

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    The future of console homebrew 

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    Published on May 14th, 2013 00:20
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    source: marcan @ fail0verflow.com] It’s been almost 7 years since the Wii was released. Back in 2006, not many owned a living room PC. PCs were still relatively bulky, and the Chinese offerings were limited to horrible media players. At the time, the prospect of having a game console double as a HTPC and being able to browse the web, play games for older platforms with emulation, and run homebrew games on a device which you already had in the living room was rather appealing. Fast forward to today. Mobile SoCs have made huge advances - you can get a quad-core chip in a phone these days - and have made the jump to the living room. Spend $25 and you can get a Raspberry Pi, which is about on par with the Wii at 1/10 of the launch price and 1/7th of the power consumption (with HD video). Spend $100 and you can get an Ouya, which beats the Wii U’s CPU and doesn’t have too shabby graphics at one third the cost. These mobile-derived devices aren’t quite a replacement for game consoles yet, but they’re catching up fast. They’re cheap enough that they’re almost disposable. The software ecosystem is much larger and wider than any console has ever had. More importantly, they’re open, and the development tools and environments are way better for open development than any game console ever was. ...
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