Ubisoft has penned a deal with Hasbro to develop and publish a number of console games based on Hasbro’s popular board games. Monopoly, Scrabble, Risk, Battleship, Cranium, and Trivial Pursuit were all confirmed in the Ubisoft deal. Scrabble will however only see release in the US and Canada. “Ubisoft’s leadership and expertise in the console gaming space will help support…
Nintendo is reportedly continuing to sell the Wii U at a loss, reports GamesIndustry. Nintendo recently disclosed a massive loss of $387 million in operating costs for the year. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata attributed the major loss to poor hardware sales, but did however claim that Nintendo would return to profitability in the near future. “Nintendo posted an operating loss…
Microsoft has released three videos to fully detail the Xbox One’s peripherals. Here’s the Xbox One controller in detail… The headset detailed… And lastly the Play and Charge Kit.
So, you’ve got the whole of Friday to fill, eh? Why not head down to your local cinema and spend a few hours in the dark? Grown Ups 2 Lenny is back and this time he’s moving his family back to his home town so he can be closer to his friends and their kids. And with the move come…
South Africa, it’s the last day of the week. Enjoy the long weekend all. John Carmack joined Oculus VR as their chief technology officer. He does not appear to have left the firm he founded – id Software. [More on Eurogamer] If you pre-ordered your PS4 in the UK after 6 August, there is now no guarantee that you will even…
Earlier this week registration opened for the third Gaming Tournament at Trenchtown in Observatory, Cape Town. The event will feature tournaments for Halo 4, FIFA 13, Street Fighter IV, Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and Injustice: Gods Among Us. To go along with the already announced cash prizes for the event, we have had some new sponsors come forward who will…
Nintendo Wii U fans won’t be happy to hear that Bethesda, who brought us Skyrim, is not planning on developing any of its upcoming games for the Wii U. Speaking with Joystiq, Bethesda VP of PR and marketing Pete Hines says the Wii U is not currently on Bethesda’s radar. He explained that hardware issues is the major contributing obstacle…
It’s pretty pleasing to us that this South African Gaming News Wrap is at least a regular weekly feature, which means there is plenty happening in the South African gaming scene (and some that even we miss), so let’s keep it going shall we? Onward and upward. The HIVE eSports Showdown This past Saturday (3 August) saw The H.I.V.E. in…
It would be easy to assume the now glorified dog from Call of Duty: Ghosts, was a well poised marketing push, but it seems Infinity Ward are actually surprised by the overwhelming reception to ‘Riley’. Speaking to GamesIndustry, Infinity Ward’s Mark Rubin spoke of how, and echoing EA DICE’s aim with Battlefield 4, the studio is focused on how the…
Manflu all around it seems! [No. Just you. Again. – Undead Ed] James Gandolfini might be gone but his legacy will live on. Especially in Enough Said, his upcoming movie. Paradise – who shares a writer with Juno – is looking really interesting. Plus it has Nick Offerman in it sans a lot of hair… Mumford and Sons poke a…