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Six months after Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey was unceremoniously thrust into the American political limelight, the VR pioneer is leaving the Facebook-owned company. Palmer will be dearly missed,” Facebook said in a statement first provided to UploadVR. Palmer’s legacy extends far beyond Oculus. His inventive spirit helped kickstart the modern …
Read More »Monster Hunter XX tops Japanese charts again, Switch sales up 56 per cent
Capcom’s Monster Hunter XX has sold another 255,748 copies last week in Japan and topped Famitsu’s charts for the second consecutive week despite sales decreasing 74 per cent. Having shifted over 1m units during its first week, the title has now sold nearly 1.3m copies in just nine days. The …
Read More »Twitch rolls out 1080p/60fps streaming
Video streaming platform Twitch has said that its service is in line for a much wanted quality boost. The Amazon-owned company has said that it will soon be rolling out 1080p/60fps video support. Its previous 3.5 megabit bitrate limit is also being increased, with the new recommended number sitting at …
Read More »GAME will sell GameStop’s Deformers exclusively in the UK
It may seem like an unlikely alliance, but GAME has joined forces with GameStop for a UK retail exclusive. Games Industry reports that Ready At Dawn’s upcoming Deformers, which is published by GameStop’s publishing arm GameTrust, will be a GAME exclusive in the UK. Remember that following the sudden closure …
Read More »Here’s the core schedule for the London Games Festival 2017
Be ready for 11 days of celebration with the London Games Festival, starting today with EGX Rezzed and closing on April 8th with the highly anticipatedGames Character Parade. For more info, head to the event’s website. EGX Rezzed 30 March – 1 April 10am-6pm Tobacco Dock Once again, EGX Rezzed …
Read More »Switch sales hit 500k in Japan
The latest figures from Media Create show that Nintendo’s new Switch console has hit an important milestone in the company’s homeland. DualShockers reports that as of March 26th Switch unit sales in Japan have hit just sky of 520,000. This figure was hit in under four weeks. Crucially, this puts …
Read More »‘London Games Festival is about promoting the city as a place to do business, work, make games and play games’
Michael French, head of games at Games London, discusses the return of the London Games Festival last year, what we should expect from this year’s edition, kicking off today, and tells us more about next week’s Games Finance Market. Why bring the festival back in 2016? This isn’t a return of …
Read More »Samsung Gear VR gets a big update
Oculus and Samsung claim to have started over with their smartphone-based Gear VR as the sector’s focus once again shifts to mobile. Both Oculus and HTC have alluded to a shift of priorities away from their high-end headsets and toward the more financially accessible smartphone market, and this new Gear …
Read More »BioWare ‘working around the clock’ to improve Mass Effect Andromeda
The developers of new RPG Mass Effect Andromeda have told fans that their concerns are being listened to. The BioWare RPG has had a bit of a rough time of it since release, with parts of the fanbase complaining about the character models and animation. Character’s eyes, in particular, have …
Read More »GAME interim figures: A predictably tough 2016 but upbeat about 2017
GAME has published its financial results for the six months up to January 28th, including the key Christmas period, and what have we learnt? Well, very little in fact. The figures largely tie with those we had from GAME back in January, when it updated us before its AGM. In …
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