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Console giant makes U-turn to support used games market and ditch online check-ins
Read More »Fresh rumours say Xbox One will abandon controversial policies
If the latest web rumours are true, Microsoft is poised to announce a revised agenda for second-hand games and online check-in. Whathifi and Giant Bomb are both claiming via independent sources that the format-holder will abandon controversial plans that would demand Xbox One connect to Microsoft HQ servers once every …
Read More »Call of Duty Ghosts development held up by lack of final next-gen hardware
Developer Infinity Ward cannot finish work on key elements of Call of Duty: Ghosts as it is yet to receive final next-gen hardware samples. Obviously we are in crazy early development and we will have to see how the consoles play out,” the game’s executive producer Mark Rubin told OPM. …
Read More »PS3 4.45 firmware update bricks consoles
Angry users claim main navigation screen inaccessible after latest update
Read More »Nvidia to licence graphics tech to third parties
PC graphics expert Nvidia is to begin licensing out its technology to other device makers. Reuters reports that the company’s chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang told the Reuters Global Technology Summit in San Francisco that licensing its graphics cores and visual patents will help Nvidia tap into the growing mobile computing …
Read More »UPDATED: PS4 game RRP still not confirmed in Europe
UPDATE:Sony has contacted MCV to say that it has "not made any announcements about PS4 software pricing for the UK or Europe and will do at a later date". ORIGINAL STORY: PS4 games will be priced the same as PS3 games, Sony has confirmed. We have announced the pricing for …
Read More »EA dismisses reports of AMD exclusivity for Battlefield 4 on PC
Talk that left many Nvidia graphics card owners worried last night has been roundly dismissed by EA and AMD. Word spread across the internet last night that EA and AMD had joined forces for a PC gaming collaboration. The talk was that EA’s entire slate of Frostbite 3-powered games – …
Read More »Indie success for Gunpoint changes one man’s life forever
Sometimes games aren’t about multi-million pound budgets and transmedia marketing – sometimes they’re about changing people’s live for the better. Such is the case for Tom Francis. Many of you will know him as a writer for PC Gamer. Some of you will know him as the developer of PC …
Read More »GameStick delays shipments till August
User Interface issues cause release date for Kickstarter backers to slip by another month
Read More »Report: King gearing up for IPO
Mobile game developer said to be in talks with a number of US banks to handle public offering
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