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Hope could yet remain for Microsoft’s ill-fated Xbox Entertainment Studios. As part of its restructuring announcement last month the platform holder revealed that the Santa Monica studio, which was tasked with creating original TV programming for Xbox, was to be closed. But The Hollywood Reporter reveals that talks have taken …
Read More »Expect more Sony game announcements at Tokyo Game Show
Sony had to drop some announcements from its Gamescom 2014 presentation as there wasn’t enough time to fit them all in. That’s according to Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida who told Famitsu, via Gematsu, that PS4 game announcements will as a result provide the focus of its Tokyo Game …
Read More »VIDEO: World of Warcraft Warlords of Draenor gets release date, dazzling cinematic
As well as making classy MMOs, Blizzard can certainly churn out decent cinematics too. The short below, released alongside confirmation of a November 13th release date for World of Warcraft’s fifth expansion, Warlords of Draenor, is undisputedly fantastic. Players will encounter an epic cast of legendary characters and a huge …
Read More »PS4 SharePlay session restricted to 60 minutes
Bit by bit, more details concerning the technical requirements of Sony’s SharePlay plan for PS4 are beginning to emerge. And here’s an important one – sessions will be limited to 60 minutes, GameSpot reports. There’s no limit on the number of times someone can use SharePlay, however, so it may …
Read More »Goodgame Studios targets hardcore gaming
German free-to-play studio licences Unreal Engine 4 for PC and console games
Read More »PS4 sales ‘way, way out in front’ of any previous PlayStation console
Sony’s PS4 is selling at a significantly faster rate than any previous console in the history of PlayStation. Oh, way, way out in front. Way out in front,” PlayStation Europe boss Jim Ryan told CVG when asked how PS4’s sales momentum compared to previous machines. It’s significantly ahead of anything …
Read More »Sounds like Assassin’s Creed: Rogue could be heading to PS4 and Xbox One
"It’s too early to discuss this subject. Right now Unity is our game for new generation consoles." That’s the official line from a Ubisoft developer, speaking to OXM, about the possibility of PS3 and Xbox 360 title Assassin’s Creed: Rogue being ported to PS4 and Xbox One. And in the …
Read More »VIDEO: 11-minute Assassin’s Creed Unity mission sees players invade Notre-Dame
Ubisoft has released a full walkthrough showing one possible way of approaching an assassination mission in Assassin’s Creed: Unity. The short shows the new stealth mechanics, as well as the vibrancy of digital Paris complete with a full recreation of Notre-Dame. Players will be free to tackle missions in a …
Read More »PS4 outsells Xbox One for 7th consecutive month in US
NPD’s July 2014 report reveals Sony’s console has once again topped the US hardware monthly charts, while The Last of Us (both the original and Remastered versions) drove software sales. Software results were particularly weak during the period, thanks to the absence of annual sales-driver NCAA Football. "July is typically …
Read More »MCV @ GAMESCOM: PS4 goes beyond the core as sales fly past 10 million
TheCEO of PlayStation says the console games industry must go beyond the core gamer if it wants to see the sort of numbers reached by PS2 and Wii again. Speaking to MCV @ Gamescom after the reveal that PS4 sales had shot past 10m units in nine months, Andrew House …
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