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Sony and Microsoft will cut the price of PS3 and Xbox 360 next month, a US analyst has claimed. Speaking in the latest episode of Bonus Round (as transcribed by DualShockers) Michael Pachter claims that publishers will threaten to pull support for the machines unless there is a price cut. …
Read More »Steam Early Access game Rust makes $8.8m
Sandbox title knocks fellow in-development title DayZ off sales top spot
Read More »3DS flash card accused of bricking systems
Users who have attempted to use a specific 3DS flash card device have been left with a permanently broken console. A thread on the gbatemp forum, as spotted by Eurogamer, reports that users of Gateway’s 3DS flash card, an accessory designed to allow the playing of homebrew (read: pirated) code …
Read More »Insomnia eSports festival signs partnership with Razer
Razer pens deal with Multiplay to host League of Legends tournaments at all 2014 events. Insomnia is Britain’s biggest eSports festival and stages some of the most popular dates on the country’s competitive gaming calendar. With the new deal in place, Multiplay will now host the Razer League of Legends …
Read More »Amazon wants to ship you products BEFORE you order them
Online retailer Amazon is planning to ship orders to customers before they have even pressed the ‘buy’ button’. Wall Street Journal reports that the company has applied to patent for a method called anticipatory shipping”, the function of which is to minimise the wait between ordering and receiving to such …
Read More »Get That Job Daily: How to be a lead gameplay programmer
Massive Entertainment’s Jesper Carlson discusses the key skills needed for his role in programming
Read More »Rust overtakes DayZ to become best-selling Steam title, makes $8.8m
DayZ has for the first time since its release in December been knocked off the top of Steam’s best selling list. And its conqueror? None other than fellow early access sandbox title Rust. Of course it’s unlikely that Rust’s overall sales have caught up with DayZ. It was announced on …
Read More »Tomb Raider has finally broken even
Square Enix’s Tomb Raider reboot has finally recouped its development costs. The game arrived in March 2013 and debuted at No.1 in the UK charts, becoming the then most successful launch of the year in the process. But despite sales of 3.4m copies in its first three weeks it fell …
Read More »Gaming star PewDiePie claims YouTube crown
Felix Kjellberg – aka PewDiePie – was the most watched person on YouTube in the second half of 2013. The divisive 24 year old Swede, who now lives in the UK and made his name thanks to a string of highly successful gaming videos, beat the likes of Miley Cyrus, …
Read More »Tencent F2P FPS Crossfire made $950m in 2013
Tencent’s free-to-play shooter CrossFire brought in revenues of nearly $1 billion in 2013. That’s according to research fromSuperDatawhich found that the SmileGate-developed title brought in over 50 per cent more revenue than Riot Games’ hugely successful MoBA League of Legends – also published by Tencent – which took $624 million …
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