So much for all that pro-Sony momentum coming out of E3…. For all the goodwill and the subsequent rush on PS4 pre-orders at Amazon and GameStop, Sony undid much of the positive press this week when a faulty PlayStation 3 firmware update to version 4.45 bricked “a small number” of PlayStation 3 consoles. Now, Sony […]
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Forza Motorsport 5 and The Crew got a lot of attention at E3, but I couldn’t resist the all-out arcade fun of Need for Speed Rivals. I’ve been a fan of the NFS series for years now, and Rivals looks to put the NFS series on steroids. For 15 minutes of behind-closed-doors time at E3,
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Man of Steel is doing its best in the theaters to beat back the kryptonite of Week 2 blues, but that’s not stopping Warner Bros. Interactive from leveraging the film’s awareness by announcing a new Superman-themed round of DLC for Injustice: Gods Among Us. The latest DLC for the game, which is comprised of two
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We’ve covered a lot of Amazon pre-order news in the past week, from the PS4 pre-orders on Amazon either sold out or selling out to the massive resurgence of Xbox One Amazon pre-orders following the so-called “Xbox One-80” announcement a few days ago in which Microsoft reversed its policies with regard to DRM, online check-ins
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Battlefield 4 needs no introduction – unless you’re talking to gamers who are more enamored with single-player games than multiplayer ones. In that case, BF4 — if not the entire Battlefield franchise — may very well be foreign ground. Much like the Call of Duty series, the Battlefield games have a massive multiplayer following and
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It was clear that Xbox One pre-orders would pick up steam after yesterday’s announcement that Microsoft was reversing its course on the Xbox One DRM, used-game policy and online check-in requirement. What few stopped to consider was how much yesterday’s news would impact Xbox One games at Amazon as well. Since the news broke yesterday
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One of the most impressive games we saw at E3 was Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. This next chapter in Ubisoft’s popular Assassin’s Creed franchise follows a completely new character who, as you might guess from the game’s title, assumes the role of a pirate. The E3 demo we saw behind closed doors was
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With just a few weeks before The Lone Ranger hits theaters (and Johnny Depp tries to pull off Tonto), now’s a great time to discuss the Disney Infinity Lone Ranger Play Set, which we got to play at Disney Interactive’s E3 booth. The game world included in the play set will provide a host of
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After the so-called “Xbox One-80” today in which Microsoft completely reversed its used-game policy, online check-in rules and DRM strategy for the Xbox One, the console manufacturer saw its Xbox One pre-orders race to the top spot in the Amazon.com battle, beating out the PS4 for Amazon’s top pre-ordered console. Before today’s reversal of Xbox
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The Xbox One online check-in requirement and used-game policy are officially things of the past, according to a letter just released by Don Mattrick, President of Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business. In the letter, Mattrick said an internet connection will no longer be required to play Xbox One games offline, and there is no longer a
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