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Sony’s streaming games service PlayStation Now has now officially launched in the UK. Having entered beta back in June, Sony has now introduced a monthly subscription service priced at 12.99. Individual titles can be rented for 2.99 and the whole thing can be tried for free for seven days. Over …
Read More »Unity to up its headcount by 500 before the end of the year
Unity’s business is changing, and to support this the company has embarked on a mass recruitment drive. The company has long been one of the major go-to game engines in the industry. But arguably it hasn’t had the huge scale you might expect for the team behind such a widely-used …
Read More »Voice actors union gives strike the go-ahead
Proposals for video game voice actors to strike have met with major support from members of SAG-AFTRA. The Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists announced it wasvoting on whether or not to strikelast month. The referendum has been a resounding success” with 96.52 per cent …
Read More »Apple downplays iPhone 6s ‘Batterygate’
Remember ‘Antennagate’? Five years on Apple has sound itself facing a new, albeit somewhat less dramatic, controversy. A recent teardown of the new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus discovered that not all models are equal. The A9 chip powering the devices is actually sourced from two different suppliers – Samsung …
Read More »Yacht Club scraps Xbox One’s physical Shovel Knight release
Publishing policies” have been blamed for the decision to scrap the release of indie platformer Shovel Knight on Xbox One. With extremely heavy hearts, we’re sad to announce there will not be an Xbox One physical version this holiday,” developer Yacht Club said. We really gave it our best effort, …
Read More »MGS V, Super Mario Maker top YouTube’s trending games for September
YouTube has released its top ten trending” games from last month, with the chart showing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and Super Mario Maker out in front for the period. Behind the pair, sports titles NBA 2K16 and FIFA 16 finished third and fourth respectively, though Madden 16 …
Read More »Kellee Santiago leaves Ouya, joins Google Play Games
Kellee Santiago will step down as Ouya’s head of developer relations to join the Google Play Games team. Santiago confirmed the move onTwitter, stating that she’ll join Google’s studio in Mountain View, California. Her departure from Ouya followsRazer’s purchase of the microconsole makeralong with founder Julie Uhrman’s own exit. Santiago …
Read More »PS4 receives price cut in US, Canada
Sony will cut the price of its PS4 console in US and Canada starting tomorrow. The console will retail for $350 in the US and $430 in Canada beginning October 9th, a $50 price drop for each. The firm has highlighted several first and third-party hardware bundles as well, including …
Read More »Scribblenauts developer to launch new IP on crowdfunding platform Fig
5th Cell, the creator of Scribblenauts, is to launch a completely new franchise via the power of crowdfunding. The studio, which was also behind DS title Drawn to Life, has joined Double Fine, Harmonix, Obsidian Entertainment, inXile Entertainment and Mobius Digital on new funding service Fig. The platform was set …
Read More »Destiny: The Taken King tops PSN September charts
The best selling PlayStation 4 of last month was Destiny: The Taken King. That’s according to a post on the PlayStation Blog, which says that the latest expansion in Activision’s online shooter was No.1 on both the PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation 3 last month. The Taken King’s Week One …
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