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He who knows the truth, The Miller Report’s Simon Miller, will be the host of this year’s Games Media Awards. In his own words, "Simon ‘The Miller Report’ Miller is the greatest man to ever walk this planet. "Known by many names – Truth Reporter, Real Man, The Walking Warrior …
Read More »Xbox hardware sales down by a third
Are people holding out for the release of the Xbox One S and Xbox Scorpio? Quite possibly. Microsoft’s latest financials reveal that Xbox hardware revenue sales are down 33 per cent year-on-year for the three months ending June. There are lots of factors to consider here. For one, the discontinuation …
Read More »EA opens doors to Girls Who Code for second year
20 10th- and 11th-grade students will be taught to program in Scratch and Python, as well as learning AI and UX design
Read More »UK Government has paid games developers £45.9m in tax relief
The Video Games Tax Relief has seen almost 46m paid to UK studios over the last two years, HMRC has said. Just 500,000 were paid to studios during the 2014 – 2015 tax year. However, in the 2015 – 2016 tax year, there was 130 claimants, who together received 45.4m …
Read More »Professional skier Matilda Rapaport killed filming Steep promo
An extreme skier has died in an avalanche while filming a promo for Ubisoft’s in-development sports title Steep. The Guardian reports that Swede Matilda Rapaport, who was 30 years old, was involved in the accident outside the resort town of Farellones near Chile’s capital Santiago. "We are deeply saddened to …
Read More »Telltale details its take on the Batman franchise
Batman: The Telltale Series will be out in just a couple of weeks. Telltale has given the game a digital release date of August 2nd on PC, PSN, Xbox Live, iOS and Google Play. The retail release will then follow on September 16th in Europe, following its September 13th release …
Read More »Want to beat piracy? Drop DRM, CD Projekt says
The Witcher 3 has sold nearly 10m copies and launched on PC without any in-built anti-piracy measures. Which should tell you something, Marcin Iwinski argues. Kotaku reports that the co-founder of developer CD Projekt and retailer GOG told an audience at InfoShare 2016 last month that winning favour with pirates …
Read More »Rise of the Tomb Raider has a PS4 release date
PS4 owners’ wait for Rise of the Tomb Raider will soon be over. The current Xbox and PC exclusive will be released on PS4 on October 11th, and will complete with some new virtual reality content for PlayStation VR. Furthermore, developer Crystal Dynamics has promised that the PS4 edition will …
Read More »Creating shots and takes with Unreal Engine’s Sequencer
The Epic Games talk devs through its new Sequencer cinematics tool, which is used for many of the company's game trailers
Read More »Pokemon Go hits Japan tomorrow, along with McDonalds partnership – report
The wait for the Japanese launch of Pokemon Go is going to be a lot shorter than feared, if new reports are correct. TechCrunch reckons that the world-conquering app will actually hit Japan tomorrow (July 20th). The news may make current users nervous about server stability, especially since the game …
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