Blog: On a day when CD Projekt cease legal threats against pirates, but remind gamers that piracy is a huge problem, Mark Ankucic presents another point of view: that piracy might be a dodgy practice, but it could force the games industry to shape up… Yesterday, The Witcher 2 developers CD Projekt issued a public statement saying they would [...]

Blog: It wasn’t just the PlayStation Network that was hacked in 2011, although the high profile of the PSN crisis shone through in a year filled with security problems in gaming, writes Mark Ankucic… For many, 2011 proved that the digital age is far from safe, and that our rights to privacy are practically null and void [...]

Nintendo’s shares have fallen since the announcement of Shigeru Miyamoto’s retirement, and Nintendo are quick to reassure investors stating the news is ‘absolutely not true’. Nintendo shares fell 2% after the announcement, compared to the 0.7 percent drop that is the current Nikkei average. Reported earlier today, Miyamoto announced a mini-retirement , in which he will be stepping down [...]

Shigeru Miyamoto, the man behind the Legend of Zelda and Super Smash Bros series, is retiring from his current position in Nintendo. Miyamoto told his fellow staff members that he would be retiring to smaller projects, stating in an interview with Wired that “I’m not intending to start from things that require a five-year development time”. He [...]

A series of job listings has strongly suggested that Ubisoft Quebec will be working on a AAA title for the Wii U, evidence showing that it just may be an MMO. Emile Gauthier from Ubisoft Quebec tweeted yesterday that “Ubisoft Quebec is working on a NEW AAA MMORPG Game and we need people to fill these very [...]

Microsoft have begun following the trend of other publishers by including a ‘no suing’ clause in their terms of service, which will roll out with the Dashboard update due today. Following in the footsteps of both Sony and EA , the new Dashboard update will bring with it a ‘no sue clause’, which states: “IF YOU LIVE IN [...]

Players of the newest addition to the Zelda franchise, Skyward Sword, learned the hard way that it came with a game-breaking bug. Nintendo has released a statement on the issue, but has no answers yet. A bug has been discovered in the mission ‘Song for the Hero’, in which players cannot progress if they: Fetch the song [...]

The more I see of Tribes: Ascend, the more I want to own my very own jetpack and array of weaponry. Check out how you can devastate your enemies in the new trailer. Announced back earlier this year, Tribes: Ascend promised a return back to the golden days of FPS, and this latest trailer proves that [...]

The Battlefield 3 servers will be taken offline tomorrow, the return of which will see back-end updates as well as a massive 2GB patch for the PC version. Happening between 9 AM CET / 12 AM PST until 1 PM CET / 4 AM PST tomorrow, December 6th (which will be my yesterday), the Battlefield 3 [...]

The Battlefield 3 servers will be taken offline tomorrow, the return of which will see back-end updates as well as a massive 2GB patch for the PC version. Happening between 9 AM CET / 12 AM PST until 1 PM CET / 4 AM PST tomorrow, December 6th (which will be my yesterday), the Battlefield 3 [...]

Delayed for over a year, the recent update to the Xbox’s Dashboard has finally brought voice recognition to Australia – apparently ‘G’day mate’ is fairly hard for technology to understand. While the rest of the world was happily shouting at their Xbox’s to play games or movies as far back as November 2010, Australian’s were having [...]

Blog: BATTLEFIELD 3 was recently banned in Iran thanks to its depiction of Middle-Eastern conflict. But while censorship is always problematic, perhaps this will get us thinking about the real issues at play, writes Mark Ankucic. As a society, we haven’t really made it past the Cowboys and Indians mentality. Opposites will collide, forces will be matched, [...]