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One of the founders of the original Xbox programme at Microsoft has lashed out at the direction the company has taken with Xbox 360. Nat Brown was one of the key figures behind Microsoft’s assault on the living room and while he understand Microsoft’s want to make the Xbox 360 …
Read More »VIDEO: Real Racing 3 goes free-to-play, gets release date
The next instalment in the EA-owned Firemonkey’s Real Racing series is going to be free to play. A release date of February 28th has also been confirmed for Real Racing 3 on iOS devices. It should also hit Google Play and Amazon Appstore on the same day. It’s a stark …
Read More »Valve fires hardware engineer Jeri Ellsworth
Steam Box controller prototype staffer exits studio after just over a year
Read More »EA: Next-gen consoles may not be backward compatible
Next-gen consoles will most likely not be backwards compatible, EA’s CFO Blake Jorgensen has suggested. Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco, as reported by Gamasutra, Jorgensen said that he expects EA to do good business on current-gen consoles for financial year 2014 even if …
Read More »Of course Gearbox made Aliens: Colonial Marines, Sega insists
Gearbox did not hand over the development of Aliens: Colonial Marines’ single player mode to TimeGate, Sega has insisted. The claims arrived yesterday amidst the twitter and forum storm that followed the lifting of the review embargo for the game – that itself revealed what can best be described as …
Read More »EA on the fence about pre-owned; Next-gen not backwards compatible; Market will never be 100% digital
Publisher EA has admitted that it would in some ways like to see an end to pre-owned games, but has also admitted that the market could suffer were they to vanish. That’s according to chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen, who Gamasutra reports told an audience at the Goldman Sachs Technology …
Read More »GameStop hopes to acquire 40 former GAME stores
US games retail giant GameStop intends to acquire 40 former GAME outlets in France. It also plans to open an additional 70 stores in 2013, although it will also be trimming its existing portfolio by 250 outlets, Polygon reports. 200 of these will come from the US market and the …
Read More »Used games can be good for industry, says EA CFO
What's good for retail helps publishers argues Blake Jorgensen
Read More »GameStop: Majority of surveyed customers wouldn’t buy console that blocked used games
GameStop clearly doesn’t like the thought of next gen consoles that won’t play used games, but the retailer also believes players aren’t keen on the idea either. VG247 reports the company’s CFO Rob Lloyd spoke at Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference, where he shared his thoughts on the growing …
Read More »Minecraft launches on Raspberry Pi
Mojang has brought Minecraft to a new platform, announcing the game’s arrival for Raspberry Pi computers. Minecraft: Pi Edition can be picked up now by device owners as a free download straight from the developer. The launch build is far from feature complete, but content updates are expected to arrive …
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