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The UK video games, visual effects and animation industry has joined forces for a new training program backed by a multi-million pound investment. It’s called the Next Gen Skills Academy and has been backed by 6.5m of investment via the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) to develop the …
Read More »iOS 8.0.1 update breaks iPhone 6 reception and Touch ID
Apple has pulled its latest iOS 8.0.1 update after the software broke two key iPhone features. The iterative software update borked Touch ID across many handsets that support it – the iPhone 5S and both iPhone 6s. More worrying it also left some iPhone 6 users unable to connect to …
Read More »Ubisoft launches Assassin’s Creed Unity tie-in experience Project Widow
Ubisoft has launched a unique online experience to promote its upcoming Xbox One and PS4 title Assassin’s Creed Unity. Entitled Project Widow – referring to a nickname for the guillotine – the city night walk experience provides gamers with an online interactive guided tour around late 18th-century Paris – the …
Read More »UK games companies are worth £1.7bn
The UK games industry consists of 1,902 companies that have an economic value of 1.72bn. That’s according to data from NESTA and UKIE and double the previous estimates of 2011 and 2012. The reason for the change in value has been driven by an alteration in how the industry is …
Read More »Titanfall IMC Rising DLC launches this week on PC, Xbox One
Titanfall’s final DLC pack will launch this Thursday on PC and Xbox One. The add-on will hit September 25th for the pair of platforms, and carry three new maps: Backwater, Zone 18 and Sand Trap. No word on what the individual price for the DLC will be, but Season Pass …
Read More »Wasteland 2 reaches $1.5m in sales in four days
Wasteland 2 has generated $1.5m in sales just four days out from release, developer inXile Entertainment has announced. "We are ecstatic that the style of game we love so much has been embraced so well," company founder Brain Fargo said. The studio originally ran a successful Kickstarter campaign that raised …
Read More »Watch Dogs is still the fastest selling new IP in Europe
Ubisoft has confirmed to MCV that, according to GfK data, Watch Dogs remains the fastest selling new IP in Europe… not Destiny. In the week that followed the arrival of Destiny, Activision proudly declared that the game had become the fastest selling new IP after one week in the UK …
Read More »Razer opens beta for Synapse data tracking feature
Razer has released an open beta for new data tracking functionality in its Synapse software. Razer Synapse: Stats and Heatmaps allows users to collect data in order to track and share their mouse and keyboard stats, as well as recording how gaming devices interact with their games. Some of the …
Read More »Sega backs Rising Star prize at next month’s Games Media Awards
The Games Media Awards return on October 15th, naming the best of the best in UK games media. Sega has signed up as sponsor for the Rising Star award, which acknowledges the hard efforts of newer games writers in the last 36 months. Over 250 people are expected to attend …
Read More »‘Smartphones are not designed to be put in your pocket’
The controversy surrounding Apple’s allegedly bendy iPhone 6 Plus is unfounded due to the design of modern smartphones. That’s according to analyst Chris Green who has made the shock claim to the BBC that modern phones don’t belong in pockets at all. "This is not an issue that Apple – …
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