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PlayStation platform holder Sony is targeting the cable TV market with a new video on demand service. Interesting, PlayStation Vue will not be a PlayStation-only product, with an iPad version already in development alongside the PS4 and PS3 releases. It will launch with around 75 channels in the US including …
Read More »Patrice Désilets opens new studio Panache Digital Games
Assassin's Creed creator reveals first project since leaving Ubisoft
Read More »Bandai Namco reports positive six-month income and sales results
Bandai Namco has reported an increase in income and sales for the company’s first half of fiscal 2015. For the period between April 1st and September 30th 2014, net income was up 8.5 per cent year-on-year to $184,000, while net sales reached $2.2m – a 13.5 per cent increase compared …
Read More »Ubisoft stock slips following Assassin’s Creed: Unity launch
Ubisoft’s stock took a hit today in the wake of the firm’s rocky launch of Assassin’s Creed: Unity. Yahoo reports company shares are down to $3.29 compared to Tuesday’s closing price of $3.62 – a dip of 9.12 per cent, effectively restoring shares to the levels they were at prior …
Read More »Xbox One nears 10m units shipped thanks to US price drop
The Xbox One is rapidly approaching 10m units shipped, Microsoft has revealed. The firm announced on Xbox Wire that the milestone will be reached shortly, thanks in major part to the hardware’s recent price drop in the US. Sales have skyrocketed since the new price took effect on Nov. 2. …
Read More »Turn your PlayStation TV into a really bad Vita
Had your eye on Vita but have decided you’re actually in the market for a handheld that isn’t as suave and accomplished? Today is your lucky day! Engadget has word of a new device from GameTech entitled the DekaVita 7. The largely rubber peripheral is designed to house a PlayStation …
Read More »New games law firm opened by former Oculus counsel
Dan Offner's venture to offer legal services and early-stage funding to devs, publishers and tech firms
Read More »Six year old RPG Valkyria Chronicles tops Steam sellers list
Sega’s PC version of PS3 RPG Valkyria Chronicles has ‘blown all predictions out of the water’, the publisher has claimed. The game release on Steam yesterday and was at one stage apparently the most downloaded game on the platform. Currently it sits in third place behind fellow Sega title Football …
Read More »Demo shows Unreal Engine 4 running in browsers
Epic Games demonstrates UE4's WebGL pipeline with tower defence game
Read More »Audience will follow industry lead on misogyny, report claims
New research funded by The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) suggests that the games industry itself must lead if it ever hopes for its audience to abandon misogyny and homophobia. That’s the finding of a new paper called ‘Love You Guys (No Homo): How gamers and fans play with …
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