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More than 28m physical games were sold in the UK last year, a drop of six per cent over 2014. That’s according to the latest figures from GfK Chart-Track. These numbers are actually all the more disappointing, because Chart-Track’s weekly data actually counted 53 weeks of 2015, whereas 2014 had …
Read More »Next Assassin’s Creed set in ancient Egypt, won’t arrive this year
2016 may be the first time in six years that Ubisoft does not release an Assassin’s Creed title. Kotaku, which has a fantastic track-record of breaking Assassin’s Creed news super early, says both it and others have been informed by a number of sources that there will be no AC …
Read More »Rise of the Tomb Raider hits 1m units, could launch on PC this month
Crystal Dynamics’ Rise of the Tomb Raider has shifted ‘well over one million units’ since it was released in November. That’s according to Xbox’s marketing man Aaron Greenburg, who confirmed that the adventure title had reached the sales milestone responding to a fan on Twitter (below). This follows Microsoft revealing …
Read More »Final Fantasy creator to begin development of new game in 2016
Hironobu Sakaguchi insists mysterious title will have an ‘original worldview’
Read More »Oculus Rift pre-orders go live in two days
Pre-orders for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset will go live this week. The company has announced that customers will be able to lay down money for the device from 8am PST (4pm UK time) on Wednesday January 6th. Oculus founder Palmer Luckey will also be doing a Reddit AMA …
Read More »PS4 hit with hack, is running custom Linux OS
Hacking group fail0verflow has taken the biggest stride yet toward a full-scale hack of Sony’s PS4. The group, which Eurogamer reports has previously been responsible for discovering exploits on the PS3, Wii and Wii U, has not only bypassed some of the machine’s security systems, however – it has even …
Read More »60 per cent of UK games firms planning to hire this year
Growth expected from UK games industry in 2016, according to new TIGA survey
Read More »GTX 970 named as the entry-level GPU for VR on PC
The price of the headset is just the beginning of what looks to be the very expensive virtual reality revolution. Nvidia has named the minimum requirements for playing VR games on PC. The cheapest compatible graphics card is the GTX 970, which currently retails for around 250. Also compatible are …
Read More »Reflections’ Stewart and Playmob’s Ower awarded OBE
UK games execs named in 2016 New Year’s Honours list
Read More »GTX 970 is minimum graphics card needed for VR, Nvidia reveals
‘VR Ready’ badge introduced in effort to make nascent technology more accessible
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