Why the UMD Passport program isn’t coming to North America

When the PS Vita launched in Japan it gave gamers the option to transfer their UMD PSP games to the PS Vita for a small fee. Gamers could preserve the games they enjoyed in digital form on the new platform. The service was called the UMD Passport program. Until a couple of weeks ago it [...]

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Looking To Dominate Social Gaming In Emerging Markets, Peak Games Gobbles Up Another Studio

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Mojang creating a Humble Indie game in 60 hours this weekend

Mojang, the development team lead by Markus Persson and working hard on Minecraft, will this weekend bring a new twist to the now established Humble Indie Bundle. That twist being, instead of offering up a bunch of already released games at a pay-anything price, Mojang will create a brand new game in just 60 hours. [...]

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Max Payne coming to iOS and Android in the next couple of months

Rockstar Games is an iconic company. There are few video game publishers who can capture gamers’ imaginations in quite the same way. So when Rockstar speaks, we listen. Today, Rockstar spoke about the mobile version of the original Max Payne. Though the company had already announced in 2011 that the classic title would be coming [...]

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BBC outlines 3D Olympics plans

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Play this: Shank 2

Everyone’s favorite mob hitman is back for a second round of slash-and burn action with the release of Shank 2, the followup to the popular action title released back in 2010. Shank 2 is the continuation of the storyline from the first title, in which the eponymous Shank is looking for revenge for the murder [...]

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Is Sony’s PlayStation Network rebranding really necessary?

As device manufacturers eye the living room as the next great uncharted frontier (with an increasing nervousness about Apple’s impending TV set), they look for any “in” that they already have. Video game consoles provide as good of an entryway to the living room as there is. We’ve already seen Microsoft expand the Xbox 360 [...]

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Soul Calibur 5 review

We get our hands dirty with Soul Calibur V’s swashbuckling swordplay, but has Namco finally delivered like the games of old, or is this old warrior about to fall on its sword?

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To Heck With The Super Bowl: GOG Features Sierra Game Three-Packs For $5

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Sony confirms PS Vita games will be cheaper on PSN than in store

This month sees Sony release the follow-up and replacement for the PSP. This time around Sony has decided to support both physical and digital PS Vita game sales from the offset by promising to release both versions on the same day. That decision should keep retailers happy after the failure of the digital-only PSPgo. But [...]

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