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Read More »Playground Games and Engine Room Games join Leamington Spa Develop Quiz
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Read More »Google Glass launches first games
If Google’s VR tech had taken your fancy, but couldn’t justify shelling out the hefty price tag. Now you can. Owners of the wearable, sic-fi glasses can now treat themselves to a series of downloadable games, including Clay Shooter, Matcher, Shape Splitter, Balance and Tennis. That’s right. You can use …
Read More »South Park: Stick of Truth won’t require uPlay on PC
The PC version of Ubisoft’s upcoming South Park: The Stick of Truth won’t integrate the publisher’s uPlay service. uPlay will not be featured in South Park: Stick of Truth,” developer Obsidian confirmed on Twitter, adding: That’s pretty exceptional for a game published by Ubisoft.” The studio also confirmed that it’s …
Read More »Why John Carmack left id for Oculus VR
Co-founder of id jumped ship when Zenimax turned down virtual reality pitch
Read More »Elop to return to Microsoft to head up devices and Xbox team – report
Satya Nadella’s appointment as new Microsoft CEO does not mean former favourite Stephen Elop won’t be returning to Microsoft. Indeed, The Verge reports that Elop WILL shortly return to Microsoft to lead an expanded devices team focused on Surface, Windows Phones, and Xbox”. Meanwhile, current Microsoft Studios corporate VP Phil …
Read More »Sega says 2015 Sonic game won’t be multi-platform
Sega has shot down rumours that its next Nintendo-exclusive Sonic title will go multi-format. The publisher’s community manager Kellie Parker took to the Sega forums and said thatthe information from Nuremburg Toy Fair – which stated that 2015’s Sonic game would be coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Wii …
Read More »MGS V Ground Zeroes ‘looks slightly better’ on PS4 than Xbox One, is under two hours long
Hideo Kojima has confessed than one next-gen version of Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes looks better than the other. In an article in GameInformer, as reported by VideoGamer, it states that "Kojima notes that MGS V looks slightly better on the PS4 compared to the Xbox One, something we …
Read More »Amazon launches "the largest video games store in India"
Amazon.in has officially launched what it calls India’s largest video games store. As we’d reported earlier, the retailer had a soft launch of its games section in December that only included consoles and peripherals, but now also includes games across PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo and PC platforms. Also, the video games …
Read More »Carmack departed id following failed VR proposal
John Carmack ultimately left id Software because Zenimax wouldn’t approve of a proposed VR deal with Oculus Rift, the industry veteran has revealed. Speaking with USA Today, Carmack admitted he’d still be with id today in some capacity – if the studio’s parent company Zenimax would have approved of his …
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