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Sony’s Kaz Hirai wants us all to be clear on one thing, the PS4 will be a gaming console first. In a minor dig at Microsoft‘s Xbox One, Hirai focused on Sony’s gaming first philosophy with the PS4. Hirai told reporters at the D11 conference today: “The most important thing we need to do is…
Double Fine, the studio that started the recent surge in crowd funded games, has announced a new Kickstarter campaign for Massive Chalice. The Kickstarter page bills it as being “inspired by classic tactical strategy games like X-COM, Final Fantasy Tactics, and Fire Emblem, as well as ‘Game of Thrones’ array of noble families.” The brand new…
Star Wars the Old Republic, one of the most popular role-playing games of all time has made its way to the iPad today, courtesy of Aspyr Media Inc. If you’ve got an iPad 2 or newer running on iOS 6 or above, you’re in business! The game will require around 2GB of storage, and a…
It has come to my attention that there is yet another cat themed app on the Google Play store. Shocking, I know! Despite the internet’s blanket rejection of cats, they persevere. Battle Cats is similar to the side scrolling tower defense of Plants vs. Zombies, but you attack as well as defend. The point of…
Yesterday Nintendo released its a trailer for Sonic Lost Worlds. The Nintendo exclusive from Sega will be released on both the Wii U and the 3DS. While it was great to see so much gameplay footage in the trailer, it was pretty clear it all came from the Wii U version of the title. Today…
Japanese RPG giant, Level-5 announced 3 new smartphone games this week. Polygon reported on the announcement, made in Japanese language magazine Famitsu. Chikyu Kaimetsu teki B-kyu Kanojo, is described as a “Japan-made smartphone RPG”. It takes place in “a post-apocalyptic world where most of the men have died and the land’s full of beautiful, powerful female…
Whether or not you’ve ever been interested in the Sony PS Vita, it’s certainly going to receive a bit more value when the Playstation 4 arrives. Sony recently confirmed a report from EuroGamer that all Playstation 4 games must support the PS Vita Remote Play feature. Remote Play has been around for sometime, but it…
While mobile gaming is a thriving business, discovering cool new titles is everything but easy for consumers. To understand the current mobile game discovery landscape better, Applifier surveyed 1800 mobile gamers in March 2013 and the results are here: 70% of all users watched online games video in the last 7 days and over 45%…
Rovio’s Angry Birds branding juggernaut just keeps chugging along. There are several versions of the game, the branded merchandise is flying off the shelves and most recently, reports surfaced that a Birds movie is in the works. Today those angry, angry birds have moved into consumables market. While you might think a brand of pork marinade…
Since its inception, the Humble Indie Bundle has been a win win for everyone involved. Gamers get a bundle of great games at great price, developers make a tiny profit, and a nice chunk of change goes to charity. It was a model of the power of crowd funding well before Kickstarter was a household name.…