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This week sees the arrival of Xbox One’s first software update but Microsoft has already detailed what will be included in the March update. Here’s what it will include, as detailed by Microsoft chief product officer Marc Whitten: Get to your friends list faster. The friends list will be front …
Read More »Next Call of Duty is leading on next-gen
PS4 and Xbox One are the lead platforms for this year’s as-of-yet unannounced Call of Duty. Sledgehammer is approaching this as a next-gen-first development,” Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg told IGN. Obviously in the console-transition year, anyone who developed a cross-generational game last year had to deal with the fact …
Read More »48% of Vita software sales are digital
Sony has revealed that digital has very nearly overtaken physical in the Vita software market. Speaking at a behind-closed-doors meeting in California, the platform holder revealed to IGN that digital games sales now account for 48 per cent of Vita’s total software sales. We wonder what the ratio would be …
Read More »1m sales and counting for Rust
Punishing survival game Rust has cracked one million downloads, game creator Garry Newman has announced. Based around surviving in the wilderness, with activities including resource-gathering and crafting, Rust has spent several weeks at the top end of the Steam bestseller chart. The UK-based head of Facepunch Studios and maker of …
Read More »Rust shatters the 1m sales mark
Wilderness survival game cracks a million sales on PC, Mac and Linux
Read More »Rebellion says Microsoft can fix Xbox One’s 1080p struggle
Xbox One’s eSRAM is the cause of Xbox One’s struggle to output games at 1080p. That’s according to Rebellion Games’ Jean-Baptiste Bolcato, who told GamingBolt that his team faced a real struggle getting in-development Sniper Elite 3 to hit full HD on the machine. It was clearly a bit more …
Read More »€10m investment fund GameOn launches in Netherlands
Dutch game fund to support early-stage start-ups set up shop in the country
Read More »Sega and Transformers licences collide for console-themed Megatron
Japanese powerhouses Sega and Takara Tomy have merged for the kill to produce a Transformers console spin-off. As reported by Tformers, an upcoming limited edition Megatron figure shuns the Decepticon leader’s traditional gun/tank alt mode and instead sees him transform into a Sega Mega Drive, complete with crimson Japanese-style trim. …
Read More »PC gaming to grow 5% yearly thanks to India, Brazil, Russia, China
PC gaming will grow to $24 billion by 2017, spurred on by rising living standards in BRIC countries – Brazil, Russia, India, and China, analysis firm IDC has predicted. The IDC expects digital PC gaming to grow at a rate of 5% per year outside America, thanks to an increase …
Read More »Far Cry Classic is released while Wild Expedition is dated
Ubisoft’s Far Cry Classic is available now on Xbox Live for Xbox 360. The game is an HD re-working of the cult PC shooter. It’s priced at 7.99 on Xbox Live, and will cost the same when it hits PSN for PS3 tomorrow. Ubisoft has also nailed down a February …
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