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Leading online retailer eBay has urged its users to change their passwords after its systems were attacked by hackers. The company has revealed that the attack actually took place in February and early March and involved the theft of encrypted passwords, email addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers and dates of …
Read More »Microsoft pondered building Kinect into the Xbox One’s case
Microsoft even toyed with the idea of building the Kinect into the Xbox One itself, Xbox One hardware designerCarl Ledbetter has said. That would have made it a permanent, non-removable feature – and prevented the recent uncoupling of Kinect and console. We actually built models of that,” he said.We pushed …
Read More »External hard drive support coming to Xbox One next month
Xbox One owners will be able to increase their console’s storage with external hard drives from next month. Microsoft has confirmed rumours that the functionality will be included as part of Xbox One’s June update. USB 3.0 HDDs of 256GB or more will be supported. The drives can be used …
Read More »VIDEO: Gameplay footage for Batman: Arkham Knight released
Rocksteady’s Batman: Arkham Knight may be the best looking game ever made. That’s if this new gameplay footage released by Warner Bros below is indeed indicative of the final game, which is due out on PS4, Xbox One and PC later this year. Scarecrow returns to Gotham City to unite …
Read More »Tomodachi Life to include two extra trial codes
Nintendo has hatched a plan that it hopes will stimulate Tomodachi Life’s player base. The platform holder has said that every copy (both physical and digital) of the game sold will come with two additional download code for Tomodachi Life: Welcome Version that can be handed over to friends so …
Read More »Android fragmentation ‘is an absolute nightmare’
The continued fragmentation of the Android market is an absolute nightmare for game developers and testing firms, QA experts have toldDevelop. Speaking as part of a roundtablelooking at the state of QA and localisation in games, Testronic operations director Chris Rowley said the issue of differing mobile devices was accelerating, …
Read More »Bad VR is VR’s biggest threat, Oculus owner argues
"I think really bad VR is the only thing that can kill off VR." So says Oculus Rift creator Palmer Luckey, who toldEngadget: "That’s why we’ve been so careful to say that ‘these are dev kits, do not buy, do not buy!People don’t have experience with this technology. When it …
Read More »Wii U nearly catches PS4 in Japan
Console sales fell this week in Japan despite a number of new titles coming to stores, Japanese sales data from Famitsu reveals. The 3DS still heads up the hardware charts for the week ending May 18th, but with considerably lower sales than last week. 25,440 3DS units were sold compared …
Read More »Dark Souls director Miyazaki becomes From Software president
The man who directed both Demon’s Souls and Dark Souls has been handed the presidency of developer From Software. Gamasutra reports that Hidetaka Miyazaki, who joined the company in 2004, has been promoted as part of a reshuffle that has also seen Demon’s Souls producer Masanori Takeuchi move into a …
Read More »Getting started with HTML5
Intel Developer Blog: Softtalkblog shares tools and tutorials to get started with HTML5 game development
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