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GDC 09: New point release adds avatar and video support
Read More »Third Dream Build Play detailed
GDC 09: XNA competition starts Monday, April 6th
Read More »Valve: ‘We’ve made DRM obsolete’
GDC 09: Steamworks update makes 'unique copies of games' and allows limitless installs
Read More »Sony cuts cost of developing for PS3
Sony has lowered the price of PlayStation 3 development kits and introduced new tools at GDC this week New dev kit models are available for developers of PS3 titles around the world – Reference Tool models DECR-1400A for North America costs $2,000 and the Europe/PAL territories version is €1,700. DECR-1400J …
Read More »Motion control gaming heading to N-Gage
Perhaps its a case of ‘if you can’t beat ’em join ’em’ – Nokia has taken a leaf out of Nintendo’s book for a new strategy of motion controlled games on N-Gage. The first game to take advantage of the new functions is an upgraded version 3D game Bounce Boing …
Read More »MMO subscriptions grow by 22% in 2008
Whilst the publishing world may be vocal in its increasing interest in free-to-play online game models, a new report by Screen Digest shows that the subscription based MMO market grew by 22 per cent in 2008. Consumer spending in the sector reached $1.4bn across Europe and North America, with the …
Read More »Games for Windows Live looks to dodge piracy, drive DLC
GDC 09:Latest features for PC games include copy protection, in-game marketplace and roaming
Read More »Annual PC market worth $11bn
Whilst the fragmentation of the PC market across traditional retail and online has made the entire segment hard to track, and even created the (debatable) belief that the sector is suffering severe decline, a new report from the PCGA claims that the PC remains the world’s number one games machine. …
Read More »Could OnLive be the death of hardware?
With Zeebo proposing that the future of gaming will bring about the end of disc-based media, an arguably even more exciting prospect dubbed OnLive threatens to end the gaming hardware race altogether. The new on-demand service claims to do for gaming what the ‘cloud’ concept has done to computing – …
Read More »JAPAN: DSi sales pass 2m
Ahead of the release of the DSi in Europe and America early next month, Nintendo’s rejigged dual screen handheld has now passed the 2m unit sales barrier in its homeland of Japan. The news comes from Japanese games weekly Famitsu, courtesy of VG247. DSi hit the market in the Far …
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