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Angry Birds Trilogy coming to Kinect, Move & 3DS
An Angry Birds trilogy will be coming to the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and the Nintendo 3DS this Christmas. The game will be a collection of the original game, last year’s movie tie in – Angry Birds Rio and Angry Birds Seasons. This is the world’s best selling app running up to one billion downloads.
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PEGI will become law at the month’s end
The current European system of rating games, the Pan European Game Information or PEGI as it is known will take over the sole responsibility of age rating video games in the United Kingdom. Currently the job is shared with the BBFC. What this means is that from 30th July we will only see PEGI ratings…
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Assassin’s Creed Movie in the works
Videogame to movie tie ins are rarely successful and if they are – rarely good (see Resident Evil: Extinction). It has been announced however that Ubisoft have let the rights to Assassin’s Creed fall to one Michael Fassbender who will not only star in the film but also produce it. The Irish-German actor has been…
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Unified 3DS & Wii U accounts
Nintendo have announced that they will have a unified user system for both the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U consoles in time for release of the Wii U. This could mean that one email address could be used for both systems and that games from the Wii U eshop could potentially work on the 3DS…
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Splinter Cell release slipped
Amazon have posted the details of the latest in the Splinter Cell series and have dated it for release on 28th March 2013. It will also have an exclusive UK supply of the Upper Echelon collectors edition which include the usual extra mission and equipment but also Upper Echelon Googles that “shine gold” according to…
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Game and Eurogamer team up
The Eurogamer Expo have announced that their retail partner for this year’s expo at London’s Earls Court will be none other than last years Expo rival – Game. Game will offer discounts and unique offers at the expo between 27th-30th September.
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Telltale announce retail version of Walking Dead
Telltale games have announced that the 5 episodes of the very popular Walking Dead games will be released as a retail version once all of the games have been released. Currently only two of the five are available and are on sale for around the £5 mark or if you buy all 5 as a…
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Sega finally confirm Phantasy Star Online 2 for Europe
Sega have finally ended months of speculation and have officially announced that they are bringing Phantasy Star Online 2 to Europe next year. Releasing for the PC next year will be the official sequel to the 2000 Dreamcast/Xbox/GameCube game Phantasy Star Online. It is currently free to download in Japan, with in game items able…
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Beatle working with Halo creators
Sir Paul McCartney has tweeted that he is excited to be working on music for the next title from the studio that brought Halo to the masses – Bungie. The Tweet says “I’m really excited to be working on writing music with @bungie, the studio that made Halo.” Codenamed Destiny, the game will be developed…
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Activision working on a Walking Dead FPS
First we have the episodic version of the Walking Dead comic books by Telltale games and now Activision have taken on the mantle of producing a game based on the FX hit of the zombie series. Details are thin on the ground but what we do know is the game will be developed by Terminal…
