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EA Sports has announced that it and Tiger Woods have mutually agreed to end their partnership on golfing video games. At the same time, the company has announced that it will be continuing to make golf video games and its partnership with the PGA will continue.

EA Sports has offered up an image comparing a screenshot of the same course taken from a current generation game compared to a next-generation golf title that is currently in the works. One look at the image and it’s clear that the visuals in the next-generation golfing game are significantly improved and offer much more realism than the current generation game.

EA Sports will be making PGA Tour golf games for consoles and mobile devices. There’s no indication of when the new game will launch at this time, but it sure does look good. EA promises that more news on its next-generation golf game will be coming soon.

I have very strong memory of the first video game I ever played. I don’t remember exactly what year it was, but I remember being very young and going to a pizza place with my dad for lunch and they had a arcade table game of Pac-Man. I can remember seeing several other table style arcade games in restaurants in the 80s, but I never remember seeing one that was Space Invaders.

In fact, the only Space Invaders I remember from the 80s was on the Atari. At any rate, an awesome retro gaming piggy bank has turned up that is based on Space Invaders. Rather than looking like on the vertical arcade machines were used to from the 80s, and that we’ve seen turned into banks before, this one it’s like one of those console tables.

The bank is made by Takara Tomy and you can actually play Space Invaders on the tiny little LCD screen on top of the bank. The device can hold up to 80 coins and the LCD will show you how much money you’ve saved. Power comes from three AA batteries. You can order one of these for yourself in the UK for £34.95.

If you’re one of the vast number of people who backed the Ouya game console when it was on Kickstarter, another bit of bad news has turned up. The company has announced that it has again delayed the launch of the Android-powered game console. The good news is the delay is only an additional three weeks, at least right now.

The original launch date was to be June 4th, and the new launch date is the 25th. Ouya CEO Julie Uhrman says that the decision was made to be able to meet the expected high demand in retail outlets. However, another reason for the delay has to do with the original design of the game controller.

Uhrman said that the buttons were sticking under the edges of the faceplate when pressed on some occasions. The fix for the problem was to make the whole for the buttons slightly larger. Ouya says that controls in production right now have larger buttons and the problem has been addressed.

Uhrman said, “We’ve had incredibly positive reactions from our retail partners, and so in order to meet their greater than expected demand, we decided to shift the launch date by a couple of weeks – three weeks – which will allow us to create more units and, basically, have more units on store shelves in June.”

[via Joystiq]

There’s no category in the Guinness World Records for the most players in a single-screen multiplayer game. However, that’s likely to change soon thanks to a group of New York University graduate students who created SPLAT, a multiplayer game designed for the 120-foot video wall installed in the lobby of the IAC building on the west side of Manhattan. The screen is a Prysm laser phosphor display and sports a whopping resolution of 11,520 x 1,080 pixels. The game was debuted at a packed showcase event last Friday night, along with the work of other students from an NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program class appropriately called Big Screens.

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If you’re one of the legions of Grand Theft Auto fans who has been anxiously waiting for the Spring to roll around for the next game in the franchise, disappointment time is here. Rockstar has announced that Grand Theft Auto V has been delayed.

While the game was originally slated for this Spring, Rockstar has now announced that the game will be available for the Xbox 360 and the PS3 on September 17, 2013. That means you have to go all Summer finding some other way to blow up, shoot up and beat things up.

Rockstar says the significant delay of the game is to allow for more development time – so the game better not be buggy when it finally ships.