Nintendo has a long and storied history in the world of video games, and its past systems have been home to some of the greatest titles ever made. The company has made many of those titles available — three times, in some cases — on its Wii, Wii…
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Brazil will spend 24.1 billion reais ($10.8 billion) on infrastructure projects for the 2016 Rio Olympics in an effort to ensure South America’s first Games are delivered on time, organizers have announced. The figure will take the total projected spending…
Here’s an interesting development. According to a Reddit post, a digital copy of Hitman: Absolution is now free for the Xbox 360 whether you have an Xbox Live Gold subscription or not. The game was originally a Games with Gold title for April 1-…
The current console war between Microsoft and Sony is barely half a year old, but conventional wisdom says that the PlayStation 4 is winning over the Xbox One pretty handily so far. But Microsoft seems determined to close the gap. During the company…
Olympic champion Sally Pearson battled strong headwinds to win a 12th Australian athletics title at the national Commonwealth Games trials in Melbourne on Saturday. Pearson continued to reassert her supremacy over national 100m record holder Melissa…
Australia is expected to again top the medals table at this year’s Glasgow Commonwealth Games, winning up to 152, the Australian Sports Commission predicted on Thursday. The federal government-backed ASC made the medal forecasts for each sport based…
With April 1 fast approaching, Microsoft’s Major Nelson has revealed the next two games in the “Games with Gold” program: Hitman: Absolution and Deadlight. The two games stay true to the recent Microsoft formula: an Xbox 360 title paired with…
Russian authorities on Monday declared an avalanche warning for the mountain resort used to host the Sochi Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games events, after an avalanche killed two women in the area at the weekend. The avalanche hit the Rosa Khutor…
Hockey games will be cut by 10 minutes to four 15 minute quarters in a bid to step up the sport’s fan appeal, the international federation announced. The new format has already been tried in the Euro Hockey League and in India’s championship and will…
South Korea’s Olympic body said Friday it would file a complaint with the international governing body for figure skating over controversial judging which saw Olympic defending champion Kim Yu-Na relegated to silver at the Winter Games. The Korean Olympic…