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Former Microsoft boss Bill Gates has potentially isolated himself from his tech contemporaries by saying that Apple should abide by a government ruling forcing it to share encrypted data. This is a specific case where the government is asking for access to information. They are not asking for some general …
Read More »6.4 million people played The Division beta
Ubisoft has revealed that the beta for its new online shooter IP The Division was played by a record-breaking 6.4 million gamers. It is the biggest beta for a new IP on ‘current generation platforms’. That’s PlayStation 4 and Xbox One to you and me. In doing so it beats …
Read More »Warren Spector: ‘Triple-A development is stagnant – thank god for indies’
Deus Ex creator highlights character AI and emergent storytelling as the trends that will push game creation forwards
Read More »Microsoft vows that HoloLens will not suffer Kinect’s fate
A full version of HoloLens will launch ‘when the world is ready’, to avoid the fate suffered by Kinect, Microsoft has said. If a consumer bought it today, they would have 12 things to do with it,” creator Alex Kipmanexplained (viaRecode). And they would say: ‘Cool, I bought a $3,000 …
Read More »VIDEO: Unreal shows Vulkan API running on Samsung Galaxy S7
New ProtoStar demo unveiled at Mobile World Congress, is first app to use follow-up to OpenGL
Read More »Co-creator of Amiga 1000, Atari Lynx and 3DO, Dave Needle, passes away
Former 3DO vice president helped engineer custom chips for Amiga computer released in 1985
Read More »BioShock: The Collection resurfaces on Brazilian ratings board
An HD compilation of the BioShock franchise has popped up again. This time it has appeared on the Brazilian Advisory Rating Board– the nation’s age rating programme – for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (credit for the spot goes to Gematsu). BioShock: The Collection was …
Read More »Microsoft: We will be patient with HoloLens to avoid ‘unpleasant’ Kinect situation
'When I feel the world is ready, then we will allow normal people to buy it,' says creator Alex Kipman
Read More »Windows Phone market share falls, overall smartphone growth slows
The market share enjoyed by Windows Phone handsets has more than halved in the last year. The latest Worldwide Smartphone Shipments report from Gartner shows that Q4 2015 shipments of Windows Phone devices fell to 4.4m units, giving it around 1.1 per cent market share of the period. That’s down …
Read More »Bethesda changes dev setup, has three projects in the works
Having been famed as somewhat of a ‘one at a time’ developer, Bethesda has altered the way it works to allow for multiple projects. Kotaku reports that Fallout 4 director Todd Howard told a DICE audience that multiple projects are now currently ongoing. We actually have three kinda longer-term projects …
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