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The Switch version of FIFA has been subject to many speculations since the game was announced during Nintendo’s conference last week. According to Eurogamer’s Tom Phillips, the title will be based off of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of FIFA, he said on Twitter (see below). EA was …
Read More »Hands on with the Nintendo Switch
The first thing I noticed when I picked up the Switch is that it simply does not feel like a Nintendo console. Gone is the toy-like and plastic feel of the Wii U – and to a lesser degree the 3DS family – replaced with a premium, ‘modern’, svelte and …
Read More »How was 2016 for the UK games market?
The headline news from games retail in 2016 is much the same as the year before – less money was made from video games software and hardware sales, but peripherals and accessories remain an area of growth. According to GfK Entertainment, 1.78bn was made from boxed games, hardware sales (not …
Read More »ERA: 2016 physical games revenue down 16.4% year-on-year, but digital up 12.1%
In 2016, revenue generated by the boxed games market dipped by 16.4 per cent. That’s according to data from the retail trade body ERA, which – citing GfK figures – says that 776m was generated by software sales during 2016, down from 2015’s 927.7m. This is due to some titles …
Read More »YouTube VR now supports PlayStation VR
Owners of PS4’s BR headset are now able to stream and enjoy the service’s 360 degree videos. YouTube version 1.09, which seems to be slowly rolling out, allows users to select between ‘normal’ or ‘PSVR’ versions of the app at launch. Once updated the peripheral becomes compatible with the range …
Read More »Brianna Wu plans to run for congress
Game developer and pioneering equality campaigner Brianna Wu has said she is assembling a team in preparation for running for congress in 2018. Wu confirmed to VentureBeat that while no campaign has officially been launched, she has every intention of running for the US House of Representatives. While an image …
Read More »Nintendo Switch GPU specs will run faster when docked to TV, says new report
The Nintendo Switch’s Tegra GPU will run at a higher clock speed when docked to a TV, potentially offering improved gameplay performance compared to using the console on the go, Eurogamer’s Digital Foundry has today revealed. According to its latest report on the Switch’s internal specifications, which it says has …
Read More »YouTube dismisses subscriber count concerns
Video host YouTube has basically said that the growing number of reports of malfunctions with its subscriber systems are, basically, wrong. For several weeks now both users and some of the biggest name content creators have complained about both unrequested subscription cancellations and random drops in subscriber counts. A new …
Read More »UKIE’s Jo Twist talks 2016 for UK games, Brexit and London Games Festival
2016 has been an eventful year for both the games industry and the UK as a whole thanks to the EU Referendum vote that took place this June. We speak to UKIE boss Dr Jo Twist OBE to take the pulse of the UK games market. How would you assess …
Read More »Capcom on Resident Evil’s return to its horror roots
It all started in VR, in a dirty kitchen. At E3 2015, Capcom started showing off a PlayStation VR demo called Kitchen, a virtual reality horror experience that was – if nothing else – incredibly unsettling. At the time I speculated with my colleagues that this was Capcom teasing a …
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