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Over the history of games there have been technology advancements that happened before their time. Sega’s Dreamcast and its online gaming, for instance. Or Nokia’s NGage and its efforts to marry the worlds of mobile phones and portable gaming. Great ideas that would eventually transform the games industry, but at …
Read More »Key Release: Crytek’s graphics debugger RenderDoc
The tech firm discusses its open source ambitions with this new free development tool
Read More »GamePointsNow slams digital and physical price disparity
It’s cheaper to buy a boxed game with a digital code inside than to just buy the code, says online retailer GamePointsNow. The firm’s MD Simon Ward says publishers are charging retailers more for digital games than physical ones as it eliminates the cost of stock holding and removes the …
Read More »Lack of power behind 3DS no-show for NES Remix
Raw processing power has been named as the reason why Nintendo decided against releasing NES Remix or NES Remix 2. One of the easiest ways to answer that is to say, ‘I was working on 3D World, which was developed on Wii U,” series director Koichi Hayashida told IGN when …
Read More »VIDEO: Release date set for Dragon Age Inquisition
EA has confirmed a release date for BioWare’s upcoming RPG Dragon Age: Inquisition. The Frostbite 3 powered game will be released on PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360 and PC on October 7th, as per the end of a new trailer that you can see below. Note of course that, …
Read More »VIDEO: Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call heading to 3DS
Square Enix is to once again merge its Theatrhythm and Final Fantasy IPs in a new release on Nintendo 3DS. The game includes three times the songs and two times the characters seen in 2012 predecessor Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy and will also add new game modes. Music is an integral …
Read More »Bandai Namco announces free-to-play fighter Rise of Incarnates
The people behind Tekken and Soul Calibur are working on a new F2P fighter called Rise of Incarnates. It’s due out on PC via Steam later this year, CVG reports, and takes inspiration from the Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme series. It will launch with four characters with more to be …
Read More »China approves the sale of game consoles with new regulations
Sale of foreign game consoles approved for the market with new guidelines
Read More »Codemasters explains next-gen no-show for GRID: Autosport
Why will GRID: Autosport not be released on PS4 or Xbox One? For a number of reasons, Codemasters has said. Regarding next-gen, ultimately it comes down to a few things,” the company’s community manager Ben Walke has said across a number of posts on NeoGAF. The first is that we …
Read More »Develop’s An Audience With to showcase Project Morpheus
PlayStation will offer insight into Project Morpheus and making games for virtual reality at a special Develop event later this month. An Audience With… Project Morpheus takes place on the evening of April 30th. The event will be held at the Dolby Lounge in Soho, London, and follows the successful …
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