Newsround #78 (28/01/14) – Gears of War, Pac-Avoid and Far Cry 4

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On today’s show:

• NEWSFLASH: Minecraft is still very popular (Gamasutra)
• Namco Bandai now Bandai Namco (Gematsu)
• Valve now offering refunds on pre-orders (Dtoid)
• The Room Two coming to iPhone (GodisaGeek)
• District 9 director may be on board for Halo TV Series pilot (GameSpot)
• Ruffian Games didn’t announce CrackDown 3 (IGN)
• There’s going to be a Sly Cooper movie (VG247)
• Nintendo to release mobile mini-games, to drive people to hardware (Siliconera)
• Ubisoft Shaghai rumoured to be working on Far Cry 4 (Videogamer)
• King apparently cloned another game with Pac-Avoid.. (Kotaku)
• Which they’ve now removed (Kotaku)
• Amazon’s Android console reported to be out, this year (VG247)
• Titanfall beta is on the way (GodisaGeek)
• And Bluepoint Games are on 360 duty (GodisaGeek)
• Microsoft has acquired rights to Gears of War IP from Epic (Polygon)
• It doesn’t look like Black Tusk will be working on something new (CVG)
• Also, Epic will still be developing things. Don’t worry. (CVG)