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Shane Willoughby

Co-Founder of TheGamingLiberty & TGL's PlayStation Editor.

EA Sports employee slams Wii U on Twitter. Calls console “crap”. Nintendo “walking dead”

by Shane Willoughby - on May 18th 2013 - No Comments
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Game industry folk say the darndest things on Twitter. In the wake of Mircosoft’s Adam Orth and THAT “always on” Twitter rant, EA Sports software employee Bob Summerwill has decided to give his employer a potential PR headache by lashing out at Nintendo’s Wii U console, calling it a “crap” and “awful...

Insomniac considered making Resistance 4. Decided to make FUSE instead

by Shane Willoughby - on May 18th 2013 - 2 Comments
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Insomniac Games “seriously considered” making Resistance 4, but instead decided to make FUSE instead, its first multi-platform game with EA due later this month. In a GameSpot sit down interview with Insomniac’s Ted Price, the studio CEO told of how his team considered making a new Resistance game but the team’s...

Digital version of The Last Of Us playable while it is still downloading

by Shane Willoughby - on May 18th 2013 - No Comments
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The Last of Us will also be released digitally upon release next month, and Naughty Dog has told Game Informer that once the PSN download hits 50%, you can actually jump in and start playing even before the full game has finished downloading. MAGIC. Naughty Dog’s creative director Neil Druckmann and The Last of Us game director...

Confirmed: FIFA 14 not in the works for Wii U. Poor FIFA 13 sales deciding factor

by Shane Willoughby - on May 18th 2013 - No Comments
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FIFA 14 is not in development for Wii U. EA remarked earlier today that they were not currently working on any projects for Nintendo’s console, but many thought that the format-centric FIFA franchise would almost certainly be an exception. As it turns out, its not. In an statement released by Eurogamer, EA Sports said it took the...

The GTA effect – Killzone: Mercenary changes release date. New trailer inside

by Shane Willoughby - on May 18th 2013 - No Comments
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Sony has revised Killzone: Mercenary’s release date, a reaction you would think to the game originally being slated to release the same day as a little unknown game called Grand Theft Auto V. It will now be available in Europe from September 4th with a pre-order nabbing you receive two days worth of Double XP and an in-game cash...

Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games announced for Wii U

by Shane Willoughby - on May 17th 2013 - No Comments
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Nintendo’s latest Ninty Direct presentation has revealed a new Mario & Sonic collaboration in Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games for Wii U. The new game will feature a wide variety of Olympic winter sports – including but not limited to – skiing, snowboarding, bobsledding, pairs figure skating and...

Hideo Kojima confirms that Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is coming to PC

by Shane Willoughby - on May 17th 2013 - No Comments
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Mr. Metal Gear Hideo Kojima has confirmed that Platinum’s Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is getting a PC release. Kojima announced the news on his HideRadio podcast, before Platinum’s own Jean Pierre Kellams reiterated the news on over on Twitter. Revengeance released earlier this year on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. We have...

Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection dated for July in US. Still waiting on European date

by Shane Willoughby - on May 17th 2013 - No Comments
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Konami has confirmed that they will release the Metal Gear Solid: Legacy Collection in the US this July, but are still mute on the subject of a European release. The entire set includes the original Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2: HD Edition, Metal Gear Solid 3: HD Edition, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker HD Edition, Metal Gear...

Sonic: Lost World announced exclusively for Nintendo Wii U and 3DS

by Shane Willoughby - on May 17th 2013 - No Comments
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SEGA has announced details of an exclusive partnership with Nintendo which means that Nintendo platforms have will be the “number one destination” for the next three Sonic games, starting with Sonic: Lost World on Wii U and 3DS. “Sonic the Hedgehog has proven incredibly successful on Nintendo platforms and we are pleased...

Final Fantasy VIII HD port announced for PC. First screens inside

by Shane Willoughby - on May 17th 2013 - No Comments
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Square-Enix has announced that a HD port of Final Fantasy VIII is in development for PC. No other formats were mentioned. Kotaku understand that the new edition is Japan only as of now, but it would make sense for a Western release to follow. Check out the first screens above and below. Final Fantasy VIII was first released in 1999 on...

CI Games announces Lords of the Fallen for next-gen consoles and PC

by Shane Willoughby - on May 17th 2013 - No Comments
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CI Games has announced Lords of the Fallen, a fantasy action/role-playing game for PC and next-gen consoles. The game will be shown at E3 next month. Lords of the Fallen is a “demanding and strategic third-person action-RPG experience” due in 2014. Tomasz Gop, former senior producer of the award-winning The Witcher 2: Assassin...

Sony Japan Studio reveal “Panopticon” with mysteriously epic trailer

by Shane Willoughby - on May 17th 2013 - No Comments
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Sony Japan Studio has revealed “Panopticon”, a myterious title that no one seems to actually know anything about. The studio released the debut trailer you see below, but did not give any other information relating to release or formats. Our guess is that it is a Vita title. The beautifully anime-influence trailer shows some...

New Grand Theft Auto V screens literally show grand theft auto

by Shane Willoughby - on May 16th 2013 - No Comments
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Rockstar has release four new Grand Theft Auto V screens, one of which literally shows grand theft auto. When you’re done checking on the car stealing above, check out the dirt bike, the scuba diving and a car chase below. GTA V is out in September. ...

Rockstar resume lists lost PS3 exclusive “Agent” as “currently in development”

by Shane Willoughby - on May 16th 2013 - No Comments
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Agent, the presumably canned PS3 exclusive that was announced but never revealed and presumably canned, has re-appeared on a Rockstar employee resume and is listed as “currently in development”. Superannuation has it that an employee at Rockstar New York lists Agent alongside Grand Theft Auto 5 as currently in development...

Official PS4 site suggests Vita Remote Play is a standard feature for all PS4 games

by Shane Willoughby - on May 16th 2013 - No Comments
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Sony has updated its official PlayStation 4 website with a section suggesting that Vita Remote Play may be available for all, if not most, PlayStation 4 games as a standard feature. The official US PlayStation 4 website reads as follows: “Play your favorite PS4 games on your PlayStation Vita’s beautiful 5-inch display using Remote...