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However, global president Satoru Iwata told Japanese business publication Nikkei that the company won’t be experimenting in the free-to-play market with established franchises like Mario and Pokemon. “We [as an industry] can now do distribution by digital means as well as micro-transactions, and the ways to obtain money through supporting …

Activision has spelled out all the gorey details for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2’s upcoming Revolution DLC in a new video preview. The pack includes four new competitive maps, as well as a new zombie map and mode, and new weapon. Treyarch hopes to shake up the competitive scene …

Microsoft’s director of programming for Xbox Live, Larry ‘Major Nelson’ Hryb, has posted an E3 2013 countdown clock on his blog, fuelling rumours that a successor to the Xbox 360 will be revealed by Microsoft at this year’s gaming convention. In the post, titled ‘Countdown to E3 2013’ and accompanied …

Sony’s upcoming remake of Carrie has received a grisly new poster, but has also been delayed by a good seven months from its original release date. The film had initially been slated to arrive in March, only for the studio to shunt it back until October 2013. Given that it’s …

The casting chatter surrounding Marvel’s forthcoming adaptation of Guardians Of The Galaxy just got significantly jucier, with the studio reportedly considering Joseph Gordon-Levitt for leading man Peter Quill. Quill is perhaps better known as Star-Lord, the son of a human mother and alien father and captain of a psychically-controlled spaceship …

Zynga has put down 11 of its games as part of cost-cutting measures for the struggling social games giant. Several of the titles were created and curated by Zynga Japan, which will also shut down at the end of January, according to GamesIndustry International. TechCrunch reports the 11 games will …

Having recently been cast as the villain in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 , Jamie Foxx has dropped a couple of tidbits about playing Maxwell Dillon, better known to comic-book fans as Electro. “I’m going to keep it close to the chest but I followed the Spider-Man comic books,” says Foxx …

The first trailer has arrived for Michael Bay’s musclebound saga Pain %26 Gain and it looks to be a promising blend of chaotic action and meatheaded humour. The film follows a trio of personal trainers (Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson and Anthony Mackie) as they look to escape “going to work …

First it was rumoured, then it moved to the ‘in talks’ stage , and now it’s been confirmed by the director: Bryan Singer has tweeted that Hugh Jackman will definitely appear in X-Men: Days Of Future Past . Looking to be a greatest hits of X-Men past and present, Days… …

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is finally in cinemas now, telling the story of Bilbo Baggins, some 60 years before The Lord Of The Rings . We sat down with Martin Freeman, who plays Bilbo, and director Peter Jackson to discuss the trilogy launcher. Freeman explains what it was like …