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With a just week left until launch, MCV talks to studio head Craig Duncan about being first up on Xbox Game Pass and the game’s single cross-play community
Read More »Pass the grog: Rare talks up Sea of Thieves’ maiden voyage on Xbox Game Pass
PlayStation reshuffles management to prioritise first-party development and global co-ordination of sales and marketing
Shawn Layden to concentrate on first-party development, with Jim Ryan to take more direct charge of global sales and marketing
Read More »Are the ESRB’s in-game purchase stickers just a sticking plaster approach?
US ratings board takes blanket approach to warn parents
Read More »Phil Spencer tells Xbox home truths at DICE: “The product we’d built wasn’t meeting the expectations of our customers”
"It was obvious Microsoft needed a reboot."
Read More »DIY experience Nintendo Labo launches on Switch this April
Nintendo announced the release of a new kind of gaming experience for the Switch, which involves turning cardboard into interactive toys, “to inspire creative minds and playful hearts alike.” Nintendo Labo focuses on DIY, with each kit turning the Switch into a new interactive creation (called Toy-Con): robot, piano, fishing …
Read More »PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds hits 3m players on Xbox One
Microsoft announced yesterday that PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has now hit another milestone on Xbox One. General manager of Xbox games marketing Aaron Greenberg said on Xbox Wire: “Today, PUBG Corp. and Xbox are excited to share that through the end of 2017 the PUBG community on Xbox One has already grown to over …
Read More »Ataribox experiences technical issues, delaying Indiegogo launch
Atari, or the people currently responsible for the brand, has been forced to delay crowdfunding for their Ataribox console, citing a developmental delay. The Ataribox is planned to be based on ‘PC technology’, and is an AMD processor with Radeon graphics and a Linux-based operating system. The machine is planned …
Read More »Nintendo announces 10m sales for the Switch
Nintendo has announced 10m sales for the Switch game console, just nine months after the hybrid consoles worldwide launch. It caps off a remarkably strong year for all things Ninty, and in October the company announced that the Switch had caused a 175 per cent sales growth for the six …
Read More »DayZ is still heading to PS4
Bohemia Interactive has confirmed that DayZ is still heading to PS4, despite the console not being mentioned in yesterday’s update. It will, however, hit Microsoft’s console before arriving on Sony’s machine. "In short, yes, we’re still going to release DayZ for PS4," a rep told GameSpot. "It’s mostly that we …
Read More »PlayStation price cuts deliver on Black Friday but PS Plus is the focus
Sony’s Eric Lempel appeared on CNBC in the US to hail last weekend as "the biggest Black Friday in Playstation history," adding that "we sold more consoles than we ever have in our 22 year history." That all came off the back of aggressive price cuts on console bundles – …
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