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AMD’s top-of-the-range Radeon R9 290X looks like it’s getting a suitably top-of-the-range RRP in Europe. Videocardz.com has obtained a list of prices for AMD’s new graphics cards from MSI and they suggest that the 290X will be a very expensive bit of kit on this side of the Atlantic. The …
Read More »Amazon opens new app store developer program
Qualifying Kindle Fire apps to receive promotional boost through 500,000 free mobile ad impressions
Read More »PS3 was delayed for one year after plans to ship without a GPU were scrapped
Part of Ken Kutaragi’s vision of the PS3 was for the console to ship without a dedicated graphics processor, with the now infamous Cell chip handling ALL the processing. The intention, IGN reports, was for PS3 to arrive alongside Xbox 360 in 2005. However, Kutarai and his team were eventually …
Read More »BBC plots to inspire next generation of coders
New initiative launching in 2015 designed to close tech skills gap and encourage children to pick up programming in schools
Read More »Intel claims "somebody paid a lot of money" to keep GTA5 off PC
There’s little doubt that Grand Theft Auto 5 will eventually arrive on PC, like most Rockstar games, but it hasn’t stopped one Intel executive from floating a conspiracy theory to explain the lack of a simultaneous PC release. Somebody paid a lot of money to make sure that title was …
Read More »Watch Dogs will look better on Wii U than it does on PS3 or Xbox 360
The creative director of Ubisoft’s upcoming Watch Dogs reckons the Wii U version will be graphically superior to its current-gen counterparts. "I would say the Wii U version is pretty much in between what the current gen is and what the next gen is from a version standpoint," Jonathan Morin …
Read More »Intel: "Somebody paid a lot of money" to keep Grand Theft Auto V off PC
Everyone and their dog seems to think that GTA V is heading to PC, but theories as to why it’s not yet happened are pretty varied. Perhaps the most colourful has come from Intel notebook marketing director Chris Silva who made the following forum-worthy claim to PC Gamer. Somebody paid …
Read More »Simogo’s Magnus Gardebäck to speak at NGDC 2013
Magnus "Gordon" Gardebck, co-founder of Swedish indie studio Simogo, will speak at this year’s NASSCOM Game Developers Conference, the trade body has announced. Simogo is the studio behind successful mobile titles such as the atmospheric and contemplative Year Walk, and rhythmn-stealth mash-up Beat Sneak Bandit. Later this year, the studio …
Read More »Square Enix to launch crowdfunding initiative
Publisher offers devs a community driven vetting process before launching a campaign
Read More »Gamevil picks up another mobile studio
Korean mobile publisher acquires Nine Wheels just days after taking control of Com2uS
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