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Microsoft says it does not intend to compensate those who paid full price for an Xbox One in November following yesterday’s price cut. Microsoft’s machine arrived last year for 429 with a free game included in a limited number of SKUs, or in vanilla form for the majority. In February …
Read More »Take-Two reports record financial results as GTA V hits 33m shipments
Publisher Take-Two has reported massive financial results after Grand Theft Auto V sells in 33 million units in just nine months. For the financial year, Take-Two’s revenue grew 97 per cent to $2.414 billion (non-GAAP) or in terms of GAAP, it grew 94 per cent to $2.351 billion, the highest …
Read More »Blizzard’s Alex Mayberry joins Star Citizen dev as executive producer
Chris Robert’s studio Cloud Imperium Games has hired on ex-Blizzard producer Alex Mayberry as executive producer of its crowdfunding hit, Star Citizen. Mayberry will join Roberts and his team to wrangle the ever-expanding space simulation game, which currently boasts a purely crowdfunded budget approaching $44m. "After 10 years at Blizzard, …
Read More »Cloud users to hit 3.6bn by 2018 – report
3.6bn people will rely on cloud technology by 2018, a new report from Juniper Research forecasts. Juniper’s research (via Games Industry) states that 2.4bn individuals used cloud services in 2013, though stresses that streaming music services such as Spotify and Pandora claimed the bulk of revenue coming out of cloud-enabled …
Read More »Among the Sleep PS4 edition revealed with Project Morpheus support
Kickstarter success Among the Sleep will see a PS4 release that’s to include support for Project Morpheus, developer Krillbite Studios has revealed. Speaking with Polygon, Krillbite confirmed its first-person survival horror title will land on PS4 in addition to the already announced PC, Mac and Linux versions. According to the …
Read More »Microsoft announces Xbox One without Kinect
Microsoft today announced that it will sell the Xbox One without Kinect. The Kinect-less Xbox One has long been requested by fans, and will now arrive in countries where the console is already being sold starting 9th June. It will be priced the same as the PS4 i.e. $399. Microsoft …
Read More »Mario Kart 8 and Super Smash Bros WILL save Wii U, Iwata insists
This year’s release of Mario Kart 8 and Super Smash Bros will sell Wii U hardware and help the machine hit its 3.6m unit sales target. That’s according to Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, who has told investors that the two titles are the pillars of our entire marketing strategy for …
Read More »Xbox One goes Kinect-less
Price for new SKU dropped to PS4-rivalling £350
Read More »Microsoft explains its Xbox One Kinect U-turn; Games with Gold dated for June
Available on June 9th, the 350 Kinect-less Xbox One is Microsoft’s biggest U-turn yet and represents a complete reversal of its controversial E3 strategy outline. It’s also the console’s second UK price drop since arriving in the UK last November, a period that has seen 80 shaved off the machine’s …
Read More »Kinect-less Xbox One announced by Microsoft
Microsoft has upped its game in the next-gen race by announcing a new Xbox One SKU that doesn’t include a Kinect camera. The new bundle will include a console and controller and cost 350 – that’s the same as the current PS4 RRP and 50 less than the existing Xbox …
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