Used game consumers are getting another swift kick in the groin thanks to Ubisoft and its new Uplay Passport program.
Friday Ubisoft revealed a new program called Uplay Passport that's undoubtedly established to regain revenue lost in the used games sector. The program will reportedly launch in the coming months and be included in many of the company's popular core games.
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Microsoft kept up a year-long string of leads with new NPD data giving it the lead in June. About 507,000 Xbox 360s shipped last month, making it not only the top selling game console but giving it a wide lead.
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How do you extend the life of the Xbox 360, a console that's nearly six-years-old and basically runs on PC architecture? If you're Microsoft, you might let hundreds of millions of Windows 8 users play Xbox 360 games right on their PCs.
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As we initially reported a few weeks ago, EA has acquired PopCap Games. The acquisition price is $650 million plus $100 million stock and multi-year earn-out.
PopCap Games is the company behind such hits as Plants vs Zombies, Zuma and Bejeweled. PopCap games have been installed 150 million times worldwide.
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Go ahead. If you haven't already done so today, go to ModernWarfare3.com. You'll see that you're directed to the official Battlefield 3 web site. That's some good trolling, no? But who's sticking it to Activision by redirecting visitors from what appears to be an official looking Call of Duty site to one of its chief rivals?
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The decision to bring Pokemon to iOS and Android this summer seems to be final but Nintendo would like to remind you that although the made the Pokemon franchise great, the games are actually built by the Pokemon Company (of which Nintendo owns a minority) and that those guys can do whatever they want.
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We all knew it was coming since January when it was rumored that Sony would start implementing activation codes on future PS3 games. Brand new games will come packaged with an online code that you are required to input before any of the game’s online features are available to you.
This is obviously Sony’s response to piracy as well as the used games industry.
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Awful news strikes the Epic Games camp; an unfinished version of their up and coming game has hit the internet. The new addition that makes the duo a trilogy has been leaked onto the internet, fortunately enough for Epic Games the version leaked is not yet completed.
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The PlayStation 4 is scheduled to enter the manufacturing stage later this year, ahead of a release in 2012, at least according to a brand new report, which also mentions that it will have a built-in motion sensor, similar to how the Kinect device works for the Xbox 360.
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A gambling commission in Britain has shut down popular gambling site Full Tilt Poker in response to acrackdown by the U.S. Justice Department.
During the crackdown, the government shut down three popular gambling sites and arrested their owners and filed a $3 billion civil suit against Full Tilt Poker and other gambling sites.
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Starting today, anyone with a Battle.net account can play any character they want to in World of Warcraft up to level 20 completely for free. You heard right. World of Warcraft has taken what could be the first step in a move toward going free to play.
Remember the remake of N64 classic GoldenEye that Eurocom came out with last year and it was a really flat sort of experience? "Bah," says Activision, because by the looks of things, they’re setting up to make another pass with the much-loved brand. Overnight, Eurogamer unearthed a bit of quality sleuthing from none other than internet games fiend Superannuation. He (or she?) had managed to turn up a slew of host URLs recently registered by Activision – and they’re very telling indeed.
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