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No compensation planned for Xbox One early adopters following new price cut

Microsoft says it does not intend to compensate those who paid full price for an Xbox One in November following yesterday’s price cut. Microsoft’s machine arrived last year for 429 with a free game included in a limited number of SKUs, or in vanilla form for the majority. In February …

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Cloud users to hit 3.6bn by 2018 – report

3.6bn people will rely on cloud technology by 2018, a new report from Juniper Research forecasts. Juniper’s research (via Games Industry) states that 2.4bn individuals used cloud services in 2013, though stresses that streaming music services such as Spotify and Pandora claimed the bulk of revenue coming out of cloud-enabled …

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Microsoft explains its Xbox One Kinect U-turn; Games with Gold dated for June

Available on June 9th, the 350 Kinect-less Xbox One is Microsoft’s biggest U-turn yet and represents a complete reversal of its controversial E3 strategy outline. It’s also the console’s second UK price drop since arriving in the UK last November, a period that has seen 80 shaved off the machine’s …

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Nexon makes quality pledge after poor Q1

Nexon has promised shareholders to renew its focus on quality this week as itsfirst quarter resultsshow revenue and profit growth have slowed. The Korean-based F2P publisher earned 47.5bn in revenue, up seven per cent year-on-year, but down three per cent on a constant currency basis in the three months to …

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Top Sony exec to skip bonuses and cut wages as fourth annual loss nears

Sony is expected to report its fourth annual loss in succession tomorrow. The Wall Street Journal reports that as a result chief executive Kazuo Hirai and some of the company’s other top bosses are to forgo their bonuses and take a 50 per cent cut in pay. All of which …

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