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The low-cost tablet market has undergone a big shakeup with Amazon’s announcement of a new Fire tablet that costs just 49.99. Called simply ‘Fire’, the Android device has a 1024×600 seven inch screen, 1GB of RAM, 1.3 GHz quad-core processor, and both front (2MB, 720p, HD video) and rear facing …

Game streaming is about to go mobile. YouTube has announced that it is to introduce game streaming to its Android app at some as-of-yet unspecified point in the near future. The feature, which was announced at The Tokyo Game Show, is being pitched in part as an effort to appeal …

Apple’s WatchOS 2 was supposed to be out yesterday. But as owners will likely have noticed, that isn’t the case. The iPhone and iPad creator has delayed the rollout of the new OS thanks to a bug that is taking longer to iron out than previously thought. We have discovered …

Developer Ys Net has embarked on yet another crowdfunding campaign for RPG sequel Shenmue 3. The game has already raised $6,333,295 Kickstarter, but the studio has opened what it calls a ‘Slacker Backer’ period designed to encourage those who didn’t pledge first time around to add their cash to the …

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We don’t know how many games consoles have been sold in China – but the noises coming from Sony suggest it isn’t as many as had been hoped. SCE CEO Andrew House has told Reuters that the region’s famously strict censorship rules have proved a hurdle for PS4 in the …

When MCV spoke to Capcom at the start of 2015, the firm was in high spirits. The Japanese publisher had a busy release schedule following a quiet 2014, in which the company released little of note. That in turn followed a 2012 and 2013 which had seen entries in its …

News has emerged that Scottish games developer Stewart Hogarth has sadly passed away. Gamasutrareports that Stewart was fighting congenital heart disease right up until Tuesday, September 15th. He was just 34 years old. Stewart was known to much of the Scottish games community, having worked at firms such as Denki …

Sales of physical games in the UK generated just 22.5m last month, the lowest figure for an August since the mid-1990s. It is the 14th worst month in UK games industry history – 12 of which took place during 1996 and 1997. The only month in recent memory to reach …

Ubisoft has said that Grow Home has become its fastest ever downloaded game on the PlayStation Network. Grow Home was initially released on Steam in February. A possible console release was touted should the PC release prove successful enough. This came to fruition last month when the game won the …