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CVG, The World’s First Gaming Mag, Facing Closure

Just as the gaming industry grows with record revenues at the launch of a new console generation, the old guard of the gaming media whithers and dies. A BBC report says that CVG’s publishers, Future, are examining the future of the CVG brand and may shut the magazine down.

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Tags: Business of Gaming, CVG, Games Journalism

Game Trailers Roundup for May 21, 2014

May 21

Posted by Steve Murray

Just because this was a holiday weekend in Canada doesn’t mean that I’m not going to do the weekly trailer roundup. It just means that it’ll be a little later than usual.

To make up for the slight tardiness in this week’s video game trailers roundup, I have a couple of launch trailers for games that would have already come out by the time this post goes live. Yesterday was launch day for Bethesda’s FPS Wolfenstein: The New Order and Supergiant Games’ new Transistor which is the one that we should care more about. Also, ahead of next week’s release, Ubisoft has a lengthy video previewing Watch Dogs.

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Trials Fusion (PC) Review: Back From the Future

May 15

Posted by Steve Murray

As I mentioned in the last Trials game review, this is a game that’s been around since Miniclip was one of the top sites in the world for gaming. The series has evolved since the original Trials game. It’s gone from Java to a proper standalone release.

With that change, so did the tone of the series. It went from a slightly over the top recreation of professional trials competition to a cartoony extreme sports arcade game.

Trials Fusion is the first Trials game released on next-gen consoles but despite the game being set in the future and the evolution of consoles and the evolution of the game’s graphics, Red Lynx didn’t really do much to evolve the gameplay.

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Tags: PC, Red Lynx, Review, Trials Fusion, Ubisoft

EA Cancelling Multiplayer for Over 50 Games on June 30th

May 14

Posted by Steve Murray

With the shutting down of GameSpy’s multiplayer servers at the end of June, we knew a number of old games would be put out of their misery. It looks like the back catalogue of EA will be among the hardest hit by the closure of GameSpy’s multiplayer services with over fifty titles seeing the multiplayer portion of the games closed permanently.

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Another Xbox One-80: Microsoft to Sell Console without Kinect

May 14

Posted by Steve Murray

After launching at a price point $100 higher than the PlayStation 4 and insisting that the Kinect was an integral part of the Xbox One and had to be connected for the console to work, Microsoft has completely walked back on all claims about the Kinect 2.0.

Microsoft announced that they will begin selling the Xbox One without the Kinect starting in June for $100 less than the original $499 asking price.

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Tags: Business of Gaming, Kinect, Microsoft, Xbox, Xbox Live, Xbox One

Russia Gives The Sims 4 an Adults Only Rating

May 13

Posted by Steve Murray

Citing the controversial so-called “Protection of Children” law, the video games rating board in Russia has classified The Sims 4 as “prohibited for children” ahead of its upcoming release in the second half of 2014.

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Tags: Censorship, EA, Maxis, Russia, The Sims 4

Game Trailers Roundup for May 12, 2014

May 12

Posted by Steve Murray

A combination of a later trailer roundup and a bit of a slow news week last week means that this week’s edition of the game trailers roundup is slightly shorter than usual. I don’t know if that assessment is an accurate one to make after only three game trailers posts but I’m going to make that assertion.

This week, we have announcement trailers for Killing Floor 2 and the 3DS remakes of Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire. We also get another look at Sunset Overdrive and the launch trailer for Episode Three of The Walking Dead: Season Two. The new episode of TWD:S2 drops this week so I’m hoping to have a review up next week.

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Rumours Say Sony’s E3 Presentation Includes Uncharted 4, The Last Guardian, a The Last of Us 2 Tease and More

May 9

Posted by Steve Murray

We’re about one month out from the 2014 edition of E3. With all the next-gen console hype out of the way in last year’s edition, this is the first E3 where we get to see the games on the new hardware star.

For this year’s E3 keynote, Sony plans to unveil a whole host of new PlayStation 4 games with some gameplay footage of their already announced high-profile games. And while I’m sure they wanted to have a few surprises for E3, a new report running down the presentation means that we likely won’t be shocked.

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Tags: E3, E3 2014, Naughty Dog, PS4, Sony, Sony Computer Entertainment

Star Wars: Battlefront III Alpha Footage Leaks

First: No, this isn’t footage from the upcoming EA DICE-developed Battlefront game that is due out in 2015. However, with EA confirming that they would be showing more of the new Battlefront at E3 in June, this leak couldn’t have come at a better time.

Many years before EA revived the Battlefront franchise, Free Radical Design was working on a new Battlefront game, to be called Battlefront III, for LucasArts. After two years in development, LucasArts pulled the plug on the game and Free Radical quickly shut down.

Now, more alpha footage of that six-year-old, unfinished Battlefront III has been leaked by YouTube’s Gamer Spawn showing both ground and flight combat as well as hero characters, multiple playable races and some story content. It looks like a damn shame that this one was cancelled.

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Posted on May 8, 2014 | Video

Comcast and EA Working on Deal to Stream Games

May 8

Posted by Steve Murray

It looks like PlayStation Now might have some competition before it ever hits the market. Two two-time Consumerist Worst Company in America winners, Electronic Arts and current champion Comcast, are reportedly working on a deal to stream EA games to Comcast customers.