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Xbox One will offer integrated Twitch video streaming from next month. It will arrive alongside Titanfall on March 11th and is described by Twitch CEO and co-founder Emmett Shear as a complete integration”. "It’s exciting because we’ve never had the ability to broadcast from a console like this with such …
Read More »PS4 sells 322,000 units in two days in Japan
Sony's latest console beats early sales of PS3
Read More »Samsung unveils the Galaxy S5
What is likely to be the year’s biggest selling smartphone across the globe has been announced by Samsung. The Galaxy S5 is the latest in Samsung’s market-leading Android smartphone range and is due for release on April 11th priced at around 550. The handset is probably best described as a …
Read More »Microsoft appoints ex-Nokia CEO Stephen Elop as head of Xbox
Julie Larson-Green becomes chief experience officer at My Life and Work team in the firm's Applications and Services group
Read More »PS4 sells 322k in opening weekend in Japan
The PS4 arrived in Japan on Saturday and has already sold in excess of a quarter of a million units. Famitsu, according to a Siliconera translation, reports that Sony’s new console sold 322,083 units in its first weekend in Japan. That’s far more than PS3’s opening weekend sales of 88,443. …
Read More »UPDATE: Xbox One Titanfall bundle cut to under £370
GameStop is offering a significant discount on the new Xbox One Titanfall bundle. Microsoft yesterday confirmed an upcoming cut-price SKU that includes an Xbox One console and a digital download of Titanfall for 399.99 – that’s 30 off the machine’s current RRP. Now GameStop is taking pre-orders on the bundle …
Read More »Myths busted: Who killed Irrational Games?
Last week in a shock announcement, Take-Two and Ken Levine announced that Irrational Games – the studio behind BioShock – was being closed. It sent shockwaves around the industry, how could such a talented studio simply be destroyed? And then the opinions started to fly: It was Ken Levine’s fault. …
Read More »Elop handed keys to Xbox division at Microsoft
Former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has been appointed as head of Microsoft’s devices and studios business. The appointment was expected following rumours earlier this month. Current devices and studios boss Julie Larson-Green is to assume the new role of chief experience officer for the applications and services group. You are …
Read More »Tizen App Challenge win for Zombies Indie House’s Meanwhile, In A Parallel Universe
Zombies Indie House has snapped up an honourable mention award at the Tizen App Challenge for its game, ‘Meanwhile, In A Parallel Universe’, and a handsome $40,000 cheque to go with it. Over $4 million in cash prizes were up for grabs in the Tizen App Challenge across nine game …
Read More »Rogen and Goldberg to co-direct Console Wars film adaptation
Comedy writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are set to write and co-direct a movie adaptation of Blake J. Harris’s upcoming book, Console Wars. Rogen and Goldberg’s credits include penning the scripts of comedy films Superbad and Knocked Up. Polygonfurther reports that Sony Pictures will assist with the development of …
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