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Sony Patent To Kill Used Games Market

If you, like me, enjoy the freedom to buy used games as and when you want to, you may want to look away now. In a patent application revealed today Sony has made the first move in killing off the used games market once and for all. The buying and selling of used games is...

Dark Souls 2 To Be “More Approachable”

Dark Souls 2 has been announced, with Namco developing the sequel for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360. This is good news for fans of the series who can’t seem to get enough of the hardcore survival horror RPG. However, a potential spanner has been thrown in the works. The spanner is comments made by...

The Phantom Pain = Metal Gear Solid 5

A strange thing happened during the 2012 Spike TV Video Game Awards. A trailer was unveiled for a brand new game titled The Phantom Pain. It’s embedded below for your viewing pleasure, and see if you can spot the clues to its real identity. It turns out that The Phantom Pain probably isn’t new IP...

Canceled Guitar Hero 7 Was… Odd

Guitar Hero is no more, with the series being on an indefinite hiatus. This is mainly due to rhythm-action games having been killed by too many sequels being released in too short a space of time. Because the video games industry knows a good thing when it sees it. However, there was due to be...

PS3 Named Number One For Netflix Streaming

It turns out that Netflix is insanely popular on the PlayStation 3, with the Sony console being named number one for streaming out of all the various Internet-connected devices Netflix has a presence on. One of the revelations of the current generation of home games consoles has been their emergence as devices for more than...

Motorola Loses Bid To Ban Xbox 360

There was a chance the Xbox 360 was going to be banned from being sold in the run-up to Christmas, which would have put a serious dent in Microsoft’s hopes of having a strong 2012 holiday season. Thankfully, common sense has prevailed. According to BBC News, Motorola lost its bid to halt all sales of...

Black Ops II First Week Sales Top 11 Million

Call Of Duty: Black Ops II has been out in the wild for some time now. Long enough for someone to break the Guinness World Record for the longest continuous gaming session, at least. But how are the sales shaping up? According to VGChartz, Activision sold 11.22 million copies of Black Ops II in week...

Dizzy Returns… To Kickstarter

An egg isn’t the most obvious real-world object to base a video game character on, but it happened, and it worked. Surprisingly well, in fact. The character in question is called Dizzy, and he was the star of a series of insanely popular games during the 8-bit era of the late-1980s. In all there were...

Gangnam Style DLC Lands On Just Dance 4

If you haven’t yet heard or seen Gangnam Style by Korean pop sensation PSY then I’m guessing you’ve been living under a rock for the best part of 2012. Judging by the 770 million-plus views the video has so far had on YouTube those unaware are certainly in the minority. There’s even less chance of...

New World Record For Gaming Marathon Set Playing Black Ops II

A sales manager for an Australian cabling company has broken the world record for the longest video games marathon ever achieved. Okan Kaya racked up 135 hours of gaming. Kaya’s game of choice for the record attempt was Call Of Duty: Black Ops II, and he managed to climb to 37th place in the online...

Black Ops 2 Patched On PS3, But Problems Persist

As if you weren’t already aware, Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2 was released last week. It was hyped, it sold out, and has garnered great reviews. Unfortunately those playing the PS3 version found bugs aplenty. The Multiplayer portion of the game was causing problems for many PS3 owners. Treyarch quickly acknowledged the issues, and...

Nintendo Wii U Reviews Round-Up

The Wii U was released in North America yesterday (Nov. 18), with releases in the EU and Australia to follow on Nov. 30, and in Japan and beyond on Dec. 8. Nintendo insisted no reviews of the hardware were revealed before release date, but now that the Wii U is out in the wild those...

Xbox Live At 10 – Changing The Face Of Gaming

Xbox Live has been with us for over 10 years now, with Microsoft rolling out the dedicated online gaming service on Nov. 15, 2002. It wasn’t the first of its kind — the Dreamcast beat it to the punch by several years — but it is the one that has changed the face of gaming,...

PS3 Vs. Xbox 360 – Neck & Neck In Sales

The Sony PS3 was released a full year after the Xbox 360 from Microsoft. And then it received a lackluster reception thanks to a stupidly high price tag and a lack of great launch games. However, even with this poor start in life, the PlayStation 3 has managed to catch up with the Xbox 360...

TimeSplitters HD Collection Subject Of Petition

The TimeSplitters series has a lot of fans, or at least it did at the time the last game was released. Unfortunately that was all the way back in 2005, when TimeSplitters: Future Perfect was released. There were plans for a fourth game but after Crytek bought out developers Free Radical, the game was put...