If you don’t know what’s happening in the world of gaming, you probably don’t read the Gaming News Wrap… or this introduction for that matter… Games Konami has confirmed the release date of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain for PS4, Xbox One, PS3 and Xbox 360 for 1 September. The PC version releases two weeks later on 15…
Good morning. We had to skip the regular morning news wrap yesterday, as the zombie in charge was suffering with a Johannesburg hangover. Today’s wrap is almost double the fun, and while some news maybe old news, remember that it’s always (new) news to someone somewhere. We would like to start by congratulating F34R_Adept for winning this past weekend’s LAN…
SimCity single-player lead engineer, Simon Fox, has taken to the game’s official blog to explain why the eagerly awaited offline mode is taking so long. In short, as Eurogamer transcribe it, SimCity was originally envisioned so players’ various cities would communicate with one another, and so by removing this feature to go offline, everything gets messed up. “The original creative…
Good morning, and welcome to the day before rAge. If you’re going, we will see you there. Otherwise, cry into your bowl of cereal while reading the news round-up. The Xbox One reserves 10% of its GPU power for multitasking and the Kinect, however Microsoft aim to free up some of this in the future for developers to use. [More…
Details are sketchy at the moment, but EA and Maxis have officially outed The Sims 4. EA are promising more details imminently, but for now we have learned that it will arrive in 2014 for the PC and Mac. The surprising exclusion of any console announcement could be due to the next-generation of consoles being around the corner. The success…