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There are just four weeks to go until we celebrate the Top 30 Women in Games and the winners of the six special categories are announced. The Women in Games Awards take place on May 19th at the Hamyard Hotel, London. Tickets cost just 49 and are available by simply …
Read More »AMD again hints at three upcoming new console launches
PS4 Neo? Check. Nintendo NX? Check. Xbox Two? Maybe. Chip manufacturer AMD has dropped the second hint in as many weeks that all three platform holders are very much gearing up for new hardware launches. Ars Technica reports that in an earnings call the company cited three semi-custom system-on-chip (SOC) …
Read More »Fred Prego on GAMEFest and its showdown with EGX
Last week, Gamer Network CEO Rupert Loman declared his disappointment in GAME. He was referring to the retailer’s new GAMEFest event, a consumer expo that will take place four weeks before his own EGX show… and at the same venue (Birmingham NEC). Upon making some allusions to the fact the …
Read More »Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst pushed to June
EA’s first-person parkour title Mirror’s Edge Catalyst is being moved out of its May release window. This delay was announced via a blog post on the game’s official website from design director Erik Odeldahl. The title is being pushed back two weeks from May 26th to June 9th in Europe. …
Read More »Shuhei Yoshida isn’t sure if there will be a PS5
Oddworld Inhabitants’ co-founder Lorne Lanning has said that Sony Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida told him that a PS5 is in no way certain? The reason? That consoles need to embrace a more iterative hardware update model, which all signs suggest will kick off with the PS4 Neo. Yes,” Lanning told …
Read More »Amazon locks video game purchases behind Prime paywall
Retailer Amazon has decided that it will only sell certain games to members of Amazon Prime. As reported by Videogamer, a handful of titles have been spotted so far that carry the banner ‘exclusively for Prime members’. The info pop-up confirms that: This item, sold by Amazon, is currently reserved …
Read More »Box Plus Network wants more gaming shows on its channels
4Music, The Box and Kerrang TV owner The Box Plus Network wants to increase the amount of video games content shown on its networks. Viewers of these channels have become accustomed to special features on movies, but the company hopes that games can claim an increasingly large share. The network …
Read More »Interview: How The Coalition is modernising Gears of War
Gears of War was the quintessential Xbox 360 series. It was a high-budget, triple-A franchise with a huge focus on the then-new world of online console multiplayer. It’s a franchise that has sold over 22m units and generated over $1 billion since its 2006 debut. And after working on last …
Read More »Rumours point to 2017 slip for Horizon: Zero Dawn
One of the internet’s more reliable tipsters has said that Horizon: Zero Dawn will miss its 2016 release. Well…Horizon: Zero Dawn’s getting delayed to early 2017 from what I’m told,” shinobi602 said on Twitter. Going to look splendid on PS4k though. Just to clarify, Horizon’s going to look absolutely incredible …
Read More »‘No Sale Promise’ campaign wants players to stop waiting for price cuts
‘By deliberately not participating in the ‘culture of sales’, at least for a while, you risk losing out on revenue and visibility that those sales could have generated’
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