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Xbox One games will not cost more than Xbox 360 titles. That’s the pledge from Microsoft, with a rep telling Polygon that "I can confirm that Microsoft Studios games on Xbox One will be $59.99”. Which seems pretty definitive. For once it seems to be Sony that is being less …
Read More »Insomniac: Xbox One offers quicker production cycles
Xbox Live capabilities allow studio to create 'on-going two-way dialogue' with community in Sunset Overdrive
Read More »DFC: "The entire future of the Xbox business is in question"
Interactive entertainment research firm DFC has delivered a scathing verdict of Xbox One’s market chances in the wake of last weeks’ incredible events at E3. In fact, it even goes as far as to question whether the scope of Xbox One’s PR failure to date could jeopardise Microsoft’s entire games …
Read More »App Store getting Kids category; Official controller support coming to iOS
Amidst all the furore of Xbox and PlayStation at this year’s E3, a couple of important iOS announcement slipped under many people’s radars. The first is that Apple is introducing a Kids category to the App Store. As The Guardian notes, kid-specific downloads are currently found scattered throughout the Education, …
Read More »Sony: "If you buy it, you own it"
E3 may be over but Sony will do all it can to ride on the wave of goodwill that it generated in LA for as long as possible. Speaking to Yahoo, SCE chief exec Andrew House and made further statements about the company’s appreciation of the public backlash to Microsoft’s …
Read More »Region Focus: Berlin
Develop investigates the reality of the games industry in the German capital
Read More »Microsoft reassures players that Xbox Live ban won’t result in lost games
Some might say that losing your game collection for being racist and homophobic on Xbox Live is actually a good thing. However, the truth remains that racists and homophobes have big spending power (or at least their parents do) so Microsoft has moved to calm them by quelling fears that …
Read More »UK CHARTS: The Last of US is No.1
Sony’s widely acclaimed PS3 thriller The Last of Us is the UK number one game this week. The game has comfortably claimed the top spot, and helped drive a surge in the games market, which was worth 12.4m last week (stat calculated by MCV based on GfK/Chart-Track data). The market …
Read More »Mad Max: Five things you should know
Not much was shown about the new Mad Max when it was announced at Sony’s E3 media briefing, but we had the opportunity to go behind closed doors with developer Avalanche Studios to see the game in action. Here are five important facts about Mad Max: This is not a …
Read More »Vlambeer victim of theft at E3
Ridiculous Fishing developer loses a bag containing most of its gear
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