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US Xbox 360 and Xbox One owners could soon see political advertisements appearing on the Xbox Live dashboard, according to a new report. The Washington Post reports Microsoft representatives were spotted handing out promo materials during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference earlier this month in Washington DC. The distributed …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: March 2-8
South Park: The Stick of Truth has emerged the victor for Steam’s latest weekly sales chart, beating out DayZ and Banished for the top spot. Ubisoft’s RPG based on the long-running cartoon benefited from its launch last week, but had been a list regular for the past month or two …
Read More »Watch Dogs’ producer explains the delay
Senior producer Dominic Guay confesses that the game 'could have shipped'
Read More »GameStop reveals Watch Dogs trade-in discount deal
It’s a brave new next-gen world out there, and with it comes a new era in higher-price trade-in prices. GameStop has revealed a part-exchange offer for the PS4 and Xbox One versions of Watch Dogs, but the retailer is asking for an unusually high 14.97 from interested punters. To take …
Read More »Mobile games: golden age idealism or gold rush cynicism?
Everyplay evangelist Oscar Clark discusses whether free-to-play is generating a golden age of game design
Read More »EA’s Jorgensen thinks pre-Christmas current-gen price cut is unlikely
Don’t expect to see Sony and Microsoft dropping the price of PS3 and Xbox 360 this side of Christmas. That’s according to EA’s chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen, who as reported by GameSpot told the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media, & Technology conference that: "At some point [Microsoft and Sony] will …
Read More »Xbox One controller requires separate update for stereo headset adapter
Those intending to use Microsoft’s new stereo headset with their Xbox One will have to go through the unusual process of updating their controller’s firmware. Fortunately it’s a relatively painless process that should take less than five minutes in total. The required software arrived last week alongside Xbox One’s second …
Read More »‘You need to talk to people before you need money’: nDreams’ financing secrets
CEO Patrick O’Luanaigh discusses the many paths of finance at TIGA Games Summit 2014
Read More »Watch Dogs dev explains ‘hard’ decision to delay
When we got close to the end, we still could have shipped. That’s why it’s hard.” That’s the admission from Watch Dogs senior producer Dominic Guay, who has taken to the Ubiblog to explain the decision to delay the game from its previous next-gen launch November release date until May. …
Read More »Ni No Kuni passes 1.1m shipped on PS3
Studio Ghibli RPG Ni No Kuni has joined the million sellers club on home consoles. Siliconera reports that global shipments of the Level 5 developed game have now passed 1.1m units worldwide. The title was published by Namco Bandai in Europe and the US and by its developer in Japan. …
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