Featuring a steep but assailable learning curve and more mind-bending puzzles than you can shake your night vision goggles at, Curve Studio’s latest production is a humble title that puts the daring into indie darling.
Ergonomic, sturdier and endorsed by developers are just some the claims encompassing the forthcoming joysticks for the Playstation 4 and Xbox One, and today Amazon has allowed gamers to pre-order each of the console’s primary controllers ahead of their release later this year.
A post published by Activision Blizzard details the ongoing financial woes for its iconic online title, World Of Warcraft, as the MMO lost a further 600,000 subscribers in the last three months, thereby rounding its player base off at 7.7 million subscribers.
Having spotted a pricemarked next-gen line-up on the Microsoft Store, The Official Xbox Magazine has reported that first-party titles for the Xbox One will retail at £49.99 - much like the console’s predecessor, the Xbox 360, when it was released back in 2005. This exclusive line-up includes Kinect Sports Rivals, Ryse: Son Of Rome, Dead Rising 3 and Forza Motorsport 5.
Progressing chronologically through their history of consoles, Sony has slashed the prices on a range of titles from the PSOne and PS2 era respectively in the last few weeks. These discounts were implemented in tandem with the #PlaystationMemories campaign that spread across Twitter – a beckon call for fans to reminisce about all things Playstation.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Andrew Garfield has been tipped to star in 99 Homes, which will be shot by the award-winning writer-director Ramin Bahrani. In the wake of his debut success with 2005’s Man Push Cart, the filmmaker has become accustomed to exploring the world from a street-level perspective, and with 99 Homes – a drama that orbits around a man losing his home to foreclosure – the director's latest venture behind the lens will be infused with a realistic, contemporary dynamic.
The document itself covers some of the core messaging from the company surrounding the Xbox One, including how the console will integrate with the cloud, the SmartGlass app and, perhaps more importantly, the new Kinect model - which, according to Nick Burton from Rare, LTD. isn’t a device to be scoffed at.
What started as a niche rallying call has now snowballed into a global plead, as the online petition to bring Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto V to PC platforms recently surpassed 220,000 – at the time of writing, the number now stands at 220,144.
On Saturday evening at the San Diego Comic-Con, James Gunn took to the stage to discuss his intergalactic adventure Guardians of the Galaxy at the Marvel Panel. After premiering a reel of test footage from the film, the American writer-director coyly hinted that the studio will be announcing some integral voice-related casting in the next few days and that fans will get the news “tomorrow, next week-ish.”
The causes vary with each individual narrative; from zombies to asteroids, killer viruses to Mayan prophecies, it’s as though our creative thinkers love pitching a different catalyst into the nuclear cauldron. But if these notions are so horrific, so downright terrifying, then why do they have such a broad appeal? Indeed, why is it that our mediums today are dominated by a plethora of post apocalyptic fiction?
