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While we were in Los Angeles spending time with upcoming hardware and games, two United States Congressmen were at work filing a bill to protect Americans from prying electronic eyes. Massachusetts representative Mike Capuano (D) and North Carolina representative Walter Jones (R) have filed the “We Are Watching You Act.” The bill doesn’t mention Microsoft...

Whats up Game Heads!! So if you are like me and you have the season pass for Call of Duty Black Ops 2 you are patiently waiting for the next two promised DLC packs and we might have an image of the third DLC pack. According to supposedly leaked promotional materials for Call of Duty Black Ops 2, the third DLC pack is called Vengeance and features four new multiplayer maps. COD...

Sony has confirmed that the pricing for its first-party PlayStation 4 titles will be $59.99 in North America, the same price point as PlayStation 3-era titles. Speaking to Shacknews, a Sony representative said “we have announced the pricing for our first-party lineup of PS4 launch and launch window games. All four titles, Killzone: Shadow Fall, DriveClub,Knack, and inFamous:...

Microsoft’s Xbox boss Don Mattrick has spoken out to defend the Xbox One’s $500 price point, saying the company is in fact over-delivering value with the next-generation system. “It’s a lower number than some of the analysts had forecasted,” Mattrick said on Bloomberg TV. “We’re over-delivering value against other choices I think consumers...

Here are official pictures of the Xbox One headset microphone and controller Charge Kit battery peripheral. They are two of a selection of peripherals to be available for the console at launch this coming November. The Xbox One Play and Charge Kit is comprised of a re-chargeable battery pack and USB charge cable that plugs into the Xbox One, allowing for charging during...

Hitman series developer IO Interactive has cut its staff by almost 50 percent after a recent round of layoffs, the studio announced in a statement released to Develop. Speaking to Develop, a spokesperson for IO Interactive confirmed that the company has canceled many of its current projects in order to focus its efforts on a new Hitman game, which is currently in pre-production. Previously,...

Nintendo confident its upcoming software will sell hardware While Sony and Microsoft showed off the power of their upcoming systems at this year’s E3, Nintendo announced a wealth of new first party Wii U titles with the aim to entice more people to buy into its latest home console. Currently, Wii U has a relatively low install base and this is a big stumbling block for...

Whats up Game Heads!! So we have some video from Bayonetta 2 and it looks like it will offer more of the same action and cutscenes that the first game had in 2009. It looks and feels like a true sequel, which should help the Wii U with an actual “hardcore” game for the system. The demo opens with Bayonetta battling waves of enemies in a quick time tutorial-style...

We guess it was inevitable: veteran game designers who worked on the likes of Rage, the Call of Duty series, Lost Planet, Madden and Planetside 2 are working on an “Erotic Adventure” game for Oculus Rift. Called Wicked Paradise, the game is based on the principle that “Instead of watching an erotic movie or reading an erotic book in which the main character...

Microsoft has announced it will sell its first-party games on Xbox One for $59.99, which is the same price most new releases are currently sold for. Microsoft representatives confirmed the price to both Polygon and Kotaku, though it’s worth noting this does mean titles published by third-parties could be sold for more. While nothing official has been said about the...

Predictions based on emerging technology is a perilous business, and never more so than when talking about the military. Marconisaid the radio would render warfare pointless. An aide to General Haig scoffed at the notion that tanks could ever replace cavalry. Churchill was confident that atomic energy might one day produce a bomb equal in power to a large artillery shell. In...

Former Epic Games design director Cliff Bleszinski believes the disc-based console market is falling apart in favor of free-to-play games and microtransaction-enabled titles. “Newsflash. This is why you’re seeing free-to-play and microtransactions everywhere,” Bleszinski said on Twitter. “The disc-based day-one $60 model is crumbling.” Xbox...

While EA still does have future plans for the Medal of Honor series, it seems that those plans will be going on without the help of its most recent developers, Danger Close. In an interview with Eurogamer, EA Games executive Patrick Söderlund confirmed that Danger Close had been dismantled, with some of the employees either working in other areas of EA, including the new...

The Metal Gear Online service came to an end June 12th of last year, and while many were saddened by the news, today Kojima revealed that the service would be returning for another round. This time, we’ll be playing it in the upcoming prequel, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. In an interview with CVG, Kojima revealed that the multiplayer is indeed being worked on...