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CEO Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t want consumers to fork out too much on an Oculus Rift. Facebook has pledged to lower the cost of Oculus Rift in an effort to build a larger user base for the anticipated device. Zuckerberg likens the social firm’s strategy to that of Google’s Nexus range, …

Publisher responds to yesterday's backlash, stresses importance of diversity to series creators

PlayStation owners who buy Diablo III: Reaper of Souls – Ultimate Evil Edition will receive Sony-themed content. Content based on The Last of Us and Shadow of the Colossus will be available to those who buy the game for PlayStation 3 and 4. The former will take the form of …

Another Ubisoft game has found itself embroiled in a gender equality debate. Far Cry 4 director Alex Hutchinson has said that the shooter was inches away” from offering a playable female co-op character – although the feature was ultimately dropped because of workload pressures. It all harks back to the …

Platform holder says Activision’s upcoming shooter will be the biggest selling title for PS4 this year. SCEE boss Jim Ryan told CVG that Destiny will lead The Last of Us, FIFA, Call of Duty and Far Cry 4 in terms of sales this year. If I had to pick one, …

Street Fighter V won’t offer pay-to-win DLC, despite claims from one Capcom exec that it will. EventHubs reported that Capcom president and COO Haruhiro Tsujimoto told an E3 audience that the game’s developer is trying to steer away from making the next game such that skilled players will win, but …

Retailer GameStop has suggested that the latest cut-price Xbox One bundle is selling well. Microsoft’s 349/$399 SKU for the first time doesn’t include the Kinect 2.0 camera and as a result is 50/$100 cheaper than the bundle that does include Kinect. It went on sale on June 9th. "They went …

Publisher Ubisoft has distanced itself from claims that high workloads are behind its omission of playable female characters in the four-player co-op focused Assassin’s Creed: Unity. Ubisoft technical director James Therien yesterday said that adding playable women into the game would have created an unmanageable workload. Now, however, an official …

Mario Kart has repeated what it accomplished in both the UK and Japan by giving Wii U hardware sales a boost in the US. Analyst David Gibson says that the game sold 450,000 units in its first three days of release in America, boosting Wii U console sales by 4.1 …

Titanfall is the top selling title for Xbox One lifetime to date, according to Electronic Arts’ Peter Moore. Speaking with Game Informer, EA’s chief operating officer explained that the game is attaching well to the new console’s growing install base – though declined to state any specific figures. "Sales are …