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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 …
Read More »Watchdog tackles 360 disc scratching issue
Xbox 360 came under the BBC spotlight last night as consumer awareness show Watchdog investigated complaints of a disc-scratching problem on Microsoft’s console. The program reported that it has received ‘many’ complaints of discs being scratched – which they claim happened without users moving or knocking against their console. The …
Read More »Neil Young: The iPhone changed everything
iPhone games publisher Ngmoco head Neil Young today opened GDC with a rousing keynote heralding the big changes Apple’s touchscreen device has brought to the games market for developers and publishers. Young also revealed that Ngmoco will later this year make its back-end platform for iPhone games – which incorporates …
Read More »Sony slashes PS3 dev costs
GDC 09: Tool prices reduced, new software introduced and UK-made PhyreEngine is updated
Read More »Dates set for Gamefest 2010
GDC 09: Microsoft's developer conference returns in February next year
Read More »Industry’s ‘fourth console’ announced
Thought the market was packed enough with three viable home consoles and three popular handheld games devices? Well, things are getting a bit busier – today at GDC mobile giant Qualcomm has announced its own console, the Zeebo. But this device, which is totally supported with digital distribution, is only …
Read More »Metaboli eyes casual expansion
Leading PC games brand Metaboli has told MCV sister site CasualGaming.biz that casual is a big part of its future plans, revealing two new family-specific subscription bundles in the process. The firm also admitted that it is currently examining the possibility of expanding its offer to mobile phones and Mac …
Read More »Rockstar announces Max Payne 3
Grand Theft Auto and Midnight Club developer Rockstar has announced that it is hard at work on a third title in its Max Payne series, with the game set for release on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC this winter. Max Payne 3, which is being developed by Bully studio Rockstar …
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