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Feeling blue after England’s loss to Uruguay last night. Think you can do better? Well there is still a place or two left at the MCV World Cup Game 5s, which will see Sports Interactive take on Ubisoft, PlayStation fight Xbox and 2K do battle with Ubisoft and more. The …
Read More »Ubisoft confirms deactivated graphics options in PC Watch Dogs
Claims from modders that graphical tweaks for the PC version of Watch Dogs were deactivated prior to release ARE true, Ubisoft has admitted. The options were uncovered by modders earlier this week. The PC version does indeed contain some old, unused render settings that were deactivated for a variety of …
Read More »PS4 demand still outstripping supplies in Europe
Sony is still struggling to manufacture enough PS4s to meet demand in Europe. We haven’t yet caught up with the initial demand across Europe.” SCE UK MD Fergal Gara told TrustedReviews. We are still dealing with the day one market. We are very close to being in a full supply …
Read More »PC Watch Dogs patch ‘in the coming days’
Ubisoft has said that a patch for the troubled PC version of Watch Dogs will be released in the coming days”. The game has had a troubled start to life, with modders claiming to have unlocked some allegedly deliberately blocked features and a promised patch to fix the numerous performance …
Read More »Develop Awards Partner Spotlight: Keywords
CEO Andrew Day ponders the challenges of a dynamic but fragmented market
Read More »Quebec games tax relief reduction ‘worrisome for future of industry’
Martin Carrier expresses concerns over sudden decrease in incentives
Read More »GamesAid Poker Tournament returns to Brighton next month
70 places available for charity competition during Develop Conference
Read More »Fewer first-party Vita games on the way as emphasis shifts to indies
PlayStation Vita owners can expect more indie titles but fewer triple-A first-party games in the future. That’s the admission of Sony Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida, who when asked by Polygon if Vita will be getting fewer first-party games replied: "I would say, yes, that’s correct.” The reasons? Sony confesses to …
Read More »E3 2014 claims Twitch records with 5.9m unique daily viewers
And you thought E3 was no longer relevant? Twitch has revealed that E3 2014 set a new sitewide viewership record for the service with 5.9m unique daily viewers logging on to watch the event. At its peak 405,029 people were watching Twitch’s E3 livestream on day one. Over the course …
Read More »Women accounted for just 6.5% of computing A-Level entries in 2013
New study claims representation of females in UK IT industry is in decline
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