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An Xbox One Slim could already be in the pipeline at Microsoft, a new report claims. Eurogamer reckons that AMD has developed a smaller, cooler and – crucially – cheaper version of the CPU at the heart of Xbox One. The new chip is based on 20nm as opposed to …
Read More »Prey 2 officially killed six years after it was first unveiled
Bethesda has confirmed what the entire industry suspected to be true – Prey 2 has been cancelled. "It was game we believed in, but we never felt that it got to where it needed to be – we never saw a path to success if we finished it," Bethesda vice …
Read More »Amazon admits that it got the Fire Phone price wrong
There are $83m worth of unsold Fire Phones sitting in Amazon’s warehouses, with the retailer admitting that it miscalculated its first smartphone launch. We didn’t get the price right,” Amazon’s senior VP of devices David Limp told Fortune. I think people come to expect a great value, and we sort …
Read More »Super Smash Bros arriving a week earlier on Wii U in the UK
Nintendo has edged forward the release of Super Smash Bros in the UK. The Wii U game will now be released on November 28th and now, as was previously the case, December 5th. Also now arriving on November 28th will be the game and GameCube controller adapter bundle, the Smash …
Read More »Ubisoft expects Far Cry 4 to sell 6m and The Crew 2m as PS4 games sell over double Xbox One
Far Cry 4 will sell 6m units and The Crew 2m units in their first year on sale, Ubisoft has predicted. That means the publisher expects its upcoming Himalayan shooter to match the performance of its predecessor Far Cry 3. Ubisoft has also revealed that it sold more games on …
Read More »PS4 unit sales reach 13.5m worldwide as console enjoys its best quarter since launch
Sales of the PS4 have now hit 13.5m units after the console shifted 3.3m worldwide in the quarter ending September 30th, Sony has revealed. That’s up from the 2.7m shipped in the quarter before and the 3m shipped in Q4 2013, Sony’s sales datashows. In fact, it is the second …
Read More »Watch Dogs ships 9m copies
Ubisoft’s open-world action adventure game Watch Dogs has shipped 9m units, the company’s latest financial report reveals. The firm announced the title had shipped 8m copies prior to the start of its most recently concluded quarter, meaning the game has moved 1m in the past three months. "The very strong …
Read More »Telltale’s latest Game of Thrones tease involves House Bolton
Telltale has loosed another teaser image pertaining to its upcoming Game of Thrones episodic adventure game, this time making mention of the historically ruthless House Bolton. Without getting into any heavy spoilers, the Bolton’s are known specifically for their flaying traditions. Their foreboding official words Our Blades Are Sharp”, and …
Read More »UPDATE: Sega confirms Valkyria Chronicles PC port in development
2008 PlayStation 3 strategy-RPG release Valkyria Chronicles is heading to Windows PC, publisher Sega has announced. Gallia, to arms! Return to the original battle on PC. More info coming soon…,” the company posted on its Twitter account earlier this week. Though no details on a release window were provided by …
Read More »Driveclub PS+ Edition ‘postponed until further notice’
The free version of DriveClub for PlayStation Plus subscribers has been delayed until further notice, Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has confirmed. Unfortunately, the road to launch has been a little rocky, and we are truly sorry that so many of you have not been able to enjoy everything …
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