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Brazil games market slows, other Latin countries on the rise – Superdata

New research from Superdata shows that Brazil’s digital games market has cooled off, while other areas in Central and South America have picked up significantly. The organization’s report states that while Brazil is still considered the crown jewel” of the Latin America games market, countries like Mexico and Argentina are …

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Nadella discusses Xbox’s importance to Microsoft…

… after not mentioning the brand until 2,054 words into his 3,119 word statement. Microsoft boss Satya Nadella has pledged to continue backing the Xbox business while also stating that it is not part of its core. Having discussed the importance of ambition, innovation, mobiles, cloud computing, PCs, services, the …

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Microsoft insists that every Xbox One can still be a dev kit

Plans remains in place for every Xbox One unit to have the facility of being transformed into a development station. Microsoft said way back in July that any Microsoft-authorized Xbox One unit can be converted into a debug console – the advantage to developers of course being the ability to …

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White PS4 will get standalone European release this year

An alternative colour for the PS4 is due to hit European retailers later this year, SCE Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida has said. Until now the white model has only been confirmed for inclusion in the Destiny hardware bundle due out on September 9th. However, CVG spotted an interview with …

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Dovetail licenses Microsoft flight sim tech

Train simulator specialist Dovetail is branching out into the flight sim sector. The company, which rebranded from RailSimulator.com to Dovetail last year and last week announced plans to dabble in fishing, has licensed Microsoft’s flight simulator tech. This doesn’t mean Dovetail will be making future Microsoft Flight Simulator titles as …

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Uncharted series ‘a good candidate’ for PS4 re-release

Uncharted 4 is currently in development for PS4, but perhaps one Uncharted game simply isn’t enough for Nathan Drake. With The Last of Us: Remastered hitting PS4 later this month and Thatgamecompany’s Flow and Flower already available, Sony obviously sees great stock in retooling its existing PS3 hits for its …

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Why Sony didn’t include the camera with PS4

Keeping the PlayStation Camera out of the standard PlayStation 4 bundle was both a wise and necessary decision, Sony has argued. It cost more than $1bn to include the hard drive, and to include the GDDR5 [PS4’s graphics and systems RAM], so something had to give,” PS4 architect Mark Cerny …

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