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Spartacus Legends connection issues kill game

Ubisoft’s groundbreaking free to play gladiatorial combat game based around Starz’ popular and gruesome TV series Spartacus sets a bad precedence for our digital future due to horrendous connectivity problems for many people resulting in being locked out of the single player game. We’ve been trying since yesterday to connect

Assassin’s Creed 4 Black Flag Defy History video

Ubisoft released a new Assassin’s Creed 4 Black Flag video entitled Defy History which is one promotion to get some lucky gamers into the forthcoming release. http://youtu.be/nhWhvgI1ugw 137 lucky fans will be immortalised in an Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag 18th century style oil-painting, depicting an intense and epic Naval

Project Cars gallery shows next gen graphics

The amazing looking Project Cars has a strong community of photographers taking images from the game to showcase how well the game is coming on. Head on over to the official WMD pages to see a whole host of images that are created using the in-game engine gameplay as opposed to

Xbox One Twitch TV support

Amongst all the hullabaloo over the Xbox One’s price, DRM and 24 hour check ins, there still some lofty and well cool features of the Xbox One which are being overshadowed by more formidable announcements. One feature of the Xbox One is the seamless streaming of gameplay to Twitch TV

Magrunner review – cool and magnetizing puzzling

Today we’re taking a look at Frogwares’ first person puzzle game Magrunner which sees players take on the role of techno freak Dax as he enters the realm of Magrunners, except things go horribly wrong in training which requires Dax to navigate some treacherous and puzzling rooms. http://youtu.be/EA8li0HqtsY Magrunner’s main

The Last of Us tops the UK charts

Naughty Dog’s infectious The Last of Us has unsurprisingly jumped to the number one spot in the UK all formats software sales chart with Animal Crossing staying firm at Number 2. Interestingly is a re-entry of Max Payne 3 at number 5. CHARTTRACK WEEKLY CHARTS – All formats – Week

Dragon Quest X benchmark tool

Square released a Dragon Quest X benchmark tool to see how the game runs – take a look at the video which shows off the tool in action. Dragon Quest X  is now in public beta phase. You can download and try the benchmark tool over here.

Is Xbox One winning the software war?

According to the Amazon.co.uk weekly sales chart it appears that gamers who have shown interest in Microsoft’s Xbox One console are also interested in one game in particular and it’s not a Microsoft first party title or exclusive. The Amazon charts place Call of Duty Ghosts as the most pre-ordered

Spartacus Legends puts gruesome back into fighting

Ubisoft released a new trailer for Spartacus Legends which is looking like a highly gruesome and graphically impressive arena based fighting game.  The game will be free to play and comes to the Xbox Live Arcade on June 26th. A PSN version is planned for a later date. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llEkqEIeKWg