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The Nintendo Switch will sell around 5m units by the end of the year. That’s according to SuperData Research, as reported by Polygon. The number would be a pretty decent performance for the machine when you consider that the Switch’s predecessor, the Wii U, only hit 14m in its entire …
Read More »Oculus looks to bridge gap with Vive with big price cut
Oculus has announced the first major price cut for its Rift VR technology. The Rift headset itself has been cut from $599 to $499, while the recently released Touch controllers have been halved in price to $99 for the pair. This means that the Rift, two controllers and two camera …
Read More »More than 60 indie titles on Nintendo Switch by end of 2017
Nintendo announce commitment at Nintendo Indies
Read More »Epic Games and The Mill unveil Blackbird Automotive Capture
Epic Games, The Mill and Chevrolet team up to demonstrate new digital filmmaking technologies
Read More »Nvidia has officially announced the GTX 1080 Ti
The last GPU in Nvidia’s Pascal family has finally been announced. The GTX 1080 Ti looks not only to be a Titan X beater, but also offer a significant jump over the existing GTX 1080. In fact, Nvidia estimates a performance gain of some 35 per cent, which is better …
Read More »Nintendo reveals extensive indie support for Nintendo Switch
The noises in the run up to launch from some indies may have been negative, but Nintendo has named a massive selection of indie games on the way to its new console. Third party support for Nintendo’s machines has been a point of contention for some time, but over 60 …
Read More »GAME and GameStop shares fall following Xbox Games Pass reveal
News of Microsoft’s Xbox subscription service has caused the share price of the two big High Street games retailers to fall. In the US, GameStop saw its share price drop eight per cent from $26.5 to as low as $23.61, although it has since recovered a little to $24.44. In …
Read More »Xbox Game Pass offers an instant console subscription library
The term ‘Netflix for games’ is bounded about all too frequently, but a new service from Microsoft might be just that for Xbox owners. Xbox Games Pass will cost 7.99 a month and offer members the chance to access a constantly shifting library of titles. It’s very much along the …
Read More »Team Dignitas sign female Counter-Strike team
Team Dignitas has signed the former Selfless Female CS:GO team. The team, which features Emmalee “emuhleet” Garrido, Amanda “rain” Smith, Mounira “Goosebreeder” Dobie, Carolyn “artStar” Noquez and Catherine “Cath” Leroux, will now play under the Team Dignitas banner. Their first event under the new name will be the Intel Extreme …
Read More »Ubisoft announces triple-A Avatar game to expand movie universe
Just one day after it was announced Avatar 2 is going into production, Ubisoft has revealed that it’s made a deal with Fox Interactive and James Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment to create a ‘cutting edge’ game based inthe Avatar universe. Massive Entertainment has been handed development duties, which are presumably well …
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