Author: Rae Michelle Richards

Xbox Live Head of Programming, Major Nelson, To Give Keynote @ PAX Australia

Larry Hyrb, better known to Xbox players under his gamertag ‘Major Nelson’, will give the keynote address to attendees at November’s PAX Australia at the Melbourne Convention & Expo Centre. Major Nelson has been a central figure within the Xbox community for more than a decade – with his well-known podcast ‘Major Nelson Radio’ reaches a wide […]

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Evolve Developer Refers To Game As ‘DLC Shit Show’, Will Be Taking A New Direction

Is Turtle Rock Studio’s 4 Vs 1 shooter Evolve even a blip on the radar of gaming’s collective attention span? Perhaps that is why the co-founder of the studio referred to the game as a ‘DLC shit storm’ in a rather lengthy blog post explaining their new vision for the game – free to play. […]

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Hyperdimension Neptunia V.II Now Available On Steam

Idea Factory International’s latest fourth wall breaking, self referential JRPG Hyper Dimension Neptunia VII is now available on Steam for Windows PC. Neptunia VII sees the return of several key characters from the console wars of GamesIndustri – heroine Neptunia, medic Compa and Neptune’s little sister Nepgear. Neptunia VII brings several new features to the […]

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Resident Evil 7 Demo Smashes Previous PSN Record For Most Downloads

Capcom’s surprise reveal of Resident Evil 7 has paid off as the developer / publisher has announced the playable trial for the upcoming first person survival horror, titled Resident Evil 7: Beginning Hour was downloaded by over 2 million PlayStation Plus Subscribers within the first week of the demo’s release. Currently Resident Evil 7’s trial […]

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Will The New Radeon 480 Fry Your Motherboard? Probably Not

AMD’s latest graphics card – the Radeon 480  – promised the performance of Nvidia’s previous generation near top end Geforce 970 for the shockingly low $199 USD. After only a few days users began reporting that the 480 was drawing more power from the PCI-Express port than it was drawing from the power supply connector. Is this […]

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Blizzard Teases New ‘Heroes of the Storm’ Content’ With New ‘In Development’ Trailer

Developers at Blizzard Entertainment aren’t wasting any time creating new content that will surely fill the nexus for the coming weeks or months. In the latest ‘in-development’ trailer we get a brand new look at two new heroes currently being finalized – Gul’dan and Auriel. New additions to the roster aside, Blizzard also showed off a number […]

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The Division Update 1.3 & Underground DLC Now Available

The first of three expansions for Tom Clancy’s The Division – Underground – is now available on the Xbox One, PlayStation and Windows PC. Massive Entertainment’s first paid add-on for the game adds a number of new additions that will hopefully please high-level players who have worked their way up to level 30 and conquered even the […]

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Battle.net Endures DDOS Attack

Blizzard Entertainment’s Battle.net service was the target of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack this past evening. Customer service agents announced the service distribution on one of the company’s official twitter accounts. Users reported connection problems with games like Overwatch on Reddit, with several posts being unable to even sign-in to the Battle.net launcher. Over the course […]

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WB Games Delay “Batman: Return To Arkham” One Month Before Launch

WBGames has decided to delay the Batman: Return To Arkham HD collection that includes enhanced versions of Batman: Arkham City and Batman: Arkham Asylum for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Development is being handled by Virtuous Games, porting both titles to Unreal Engine 4 for both generation consoles. SteveGrayson from WB’s staff posted an […]

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Deals With Gold For North America The Week of June 28th 2016

Major Nelson has updated the list of weekly deals available to Canadian and American gamers before everyone goes on holiday this weekend to celebrate Independence Day & Canada Day. If you’re going to be home for the holidays perhaps some of these deals will keep you entertained. The games featured in this week’s deals include […]

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Dolphin Version 5 Released, Improves Compatibility With Hundreds of Games

The fifth version of the Dolphin Wii / Gamecube emulator was released just prior to this weekend and it packs a number of enhancements that will surely have the emulation community ecstatic for the foreseeable future. Version 5 is the first major release in sometime, Dolphin 4.0 was finalized all the way back in September 2013. A […]

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Tekken 7 Confirmed For Early 2017 Release On PC

Bandai Namco’s Tekken 7 PC Release will be available in Early 2017 via Steam. Confirmation of this comes as the official Steam Page for the game has gone live – you can view it right here. During Microsoft’s E3 press conference the game was confirmed for both Windows PC & Xbox One with a trailer showcasing a battle […]

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Elite Dangerous With Top Tier Gear Is A Whole New Galaxy of Fun

At E3 developers at Frontier and representatives from Thrustmaster invited me to check out the  manufacturer’s upcoming hardware refresh for their high-end HOTAS line with a convention exclusive demo version of Elite Dangerous. As I’ve written before, Elite Dangerous is one of my favorite VR experiences and it was the first VR title I tried – Elite proved to me […]

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CliffyB Compares Overwatch To Digital “Rock, Paper, Scissors”

Team-based, hero focused first person shooters are all the rage right now and the undisputed king is Blizzard’s Overwatch. In an interview, CliffyB compared Blizzard’s latest success to a digital game of Rock, Paper, Scissors. Our comrades at Eurogamer had a chance to sit down with CliffyB at E3 last week about his new game, Lawbreakers. Comparisons to […]

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Trials of Cold Steel II Coming To Europe This Fall For PS3 / PS Vita

The Legend of Heroes: Trials of Cold Steel II will be coming to PlayStation 4 and PS Vita in Europe thanks to Nippon Inchi Software. This sequel to the 2013 original (JPN release) sees the fate of Erebonia hang in the balance as the narrative picks up just one month after the conclusion of the first […]

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