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PlayStation’s digital refund policy is to be the focus of a segment on tonight’s (Thursday May 28th) Watchdog. The BBC’s consumer rights programme will be looking at the case of one John Lappin, a PlayStation 4 owner who was refused a refund after a fraudulent 39.99 purchase was made on …
Read More ȣ24,000 Star Wars game available next month
The arcade game – Star Wars: Battle Pod – is being made for home use, and will cost the princely sum of 24,000. And that does not include the shipping and setting fee. Now, the premium edition of the Battle Pods will also be available from next month and are …
Read More »How to build your first Internet of Things applications
Intel Developer Blog: Getting started with Arduino
Read More »Release date for new Need for Speed seemingly outed
It appears that the release date for EA’s new Need for Speed game has been revealed. That’s according to the game’s listing on the Xbox website– spotted by Reddit users – which says that the new racing title will be hitting stores on November 5th. Keep in mind that this …
Read More »PlayStation admits ‘sparse’ 2014 line-up, promises to sign more third-party deals
Andrew House, the president of the PlayStation business, says the company will go after more third-party exclusives for PS4 this year. The move is designed to counter what House calls a ‘sparse’ line-up of first-party games. When he says exclusives, he doesn’t necessarily mean complete exclusives. We were able to …
Read More »Oculus VR acquires Surreal Vision
Oculus VR has announced its acquisition of Surreal Vision – a tech startup that specializes in genereating real-time, 3D worlds. A new post on the virtual reality firm’s website states Surreal Vision is one of the top computer vision teams in the world. According to Oculus, the company’s tech generates …
Read More »GOG refusing to sell Hatred, according to dev
Hatred developer Destructive Creations has announced GOG will not carry its controversial shooter Hatred when it releases next week. The studio claims the digital storefront has refused to distribute the game.” Hatred was previously delisted from Steam’s Greenlight pages, before Valve approved the game for release on its popular distribution …
Read More »Nintendo strove for global Humble Bundle, says NoA
The unfortunate region lock situation surrounding Nintendo’s Humble Nindie Bundle promotion is something the company hopes to change, a Nintendo of America rep claims. Damon Baker – an employee of Nintendo of America’s marketing department – said as much on Twitter, explaining the company spent months trying to make the …
Read More »Lorry transporting Splatoon stock has been hijacked
A lorry transporting Splatoon stock from Nintendo’s warehouse to GAME has been stolen, GAME has updated its customers with the news, and says that it is unable to satisfy orders of the Special Edition of the game, which includes the Squid Amiibo. GAME is instead offering standard versions of the …
Read More »Former DICE devs open new studio Cosmic Picnic
Developer working on PS4 title Amazing Discoveries in Outer Space
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