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Ahead of Amazon’s members-only Prime Day sale tomorrow, the promotion’s first video game offers have started to appear. For those not in the know, Prime Day is much like Amazon’s highly popular Black Friday sales – except you have to be subscribed to the retail giant’s 79/year service (which counts …
Read More »Hi-Rez announces Smite Xbox One invitational alongside SWC 2016
The Smite World Championships 2016 will comprise of both a PC and Xbox One tournament when it returns to Atlanta’s Cobb Performing Arts Centre on January 7-10 . Hi-Rez Studios revealed the championships, now renamedSmite World Championship Presented By Xbox One, will test players of the original PC title and …
Read More »Boys are tired of gaming’s over-sexualised women, too
A new study has found that the majority of teenage boys in the US believe that games unfairly treat women as sex objects. A Time study by Rosalind Wiseman asked US school boys whether they believed female characters are treated too often as sex objects” in video games. 47 per …
Read More »Reddit chief engineer Bethanye Blount quits
Does Reddit have a gender discrimination problem that it needs to address?” That’s the question being posed to Reddit after news that chief engineer Bethanye Blount has quit the company after just two months in the job and just days after CEO Ellen Pao also departed. Pao had endured months …
Read More »Latest Metal Gear Solid V box art ditches Kojima’s name
Both the name of Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima and the logo of his studio Kojima Productions have been dropped from the latest box art for Metal Gear Solid V. These pack shots were uploaded yesterday, with eagle-eyed NeoGAF users spotting that the above details had been dropped Given recent …
Read More »Satellite Reign is leaving Early Access next month
The spiritual successor to Syndicate is on target for a full release in August. The game was successfully funded on Kickstarter in the summer of 2013 and then hit Steam Early Access late last year. It will be released in full on August 28th. We’re pleased to announce that Satellite …
Read More »Value of games industry investments drop 48 per cent during first half of 2015
If you’re looking to invest in games, now’s the time. That’s according to a new report from technology analyst Digi-Capital, which states that investments in the industry have almost halved in value (down by 48 per cent) during the first half of 2015 compared to 2014. This follows 2014’s own …
Read More »Prototype bundle makes shock appearance on Xbox One
Surprise! Activision has with no fanfare or hype released a bundle of both Prototype games on Xbox One. Both Prototype and Prototype 2 are available to download from Xbox Live now, priced at 39.99. There’s no word yet on any potential differences compared to the original releases bar the inclusion …
Read More »Apple Pay launches in the UK
Apple’s contactless payment service has finally come to the UK today (July 14th), nine months after its launch in America. Apple Pay will support over 250,000 stores and companies in the UK, including JD Sports, Topshop, Nando’s, Wagamamas, Waitrose and Lidl. At launch participating banks include Natwest, Nationwide, American Express …
Read More »Oculus Rift ‘will be an open platform’, avoid ‘console tactics’, insists founder
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey has dismissed concerns that the Rift virtual reality headset will be designed as a closed ecosystem. A Reddit thread attempting to dissuade readers from buying the upcoming consumer version of the VR device cited Oculus’ funding of two dozen Rift-exclusive titles as a sign that the …
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