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FIFA Ultimate Team is five years old and to celebrate EA COO and former EA Sports boss Peter Moore has unleashed some impressive stats. In an infographic shared on Twitter and reproduced below, Moore revealed that 64 per cent of all FIFA players now play Ultimate Team mode and that …
Read More »Nintendo sizing up Unity for 3DS
Nintendo of America says platform holder is ‘definitely looking’ at Unity for its handheld
Read More »More than 50 Unity games coming to Wii U
GDC 2014: A further 17 titles already approved and will be released in next two months
Read More »Sony hopes to be "closer to full PS4 supply" by early summer
PS4 may not be freely available in all current regions until this summer. We’re struggling to keep up with demand,” PlayStation boss Andrew House told The Wall Street Journal. Conservatively, as we get into the early summer months, we’ll be closer to a full supply situation.” Demand is said to …
Read More »Activision closing UK studio The Blast Furnace
Publisher will shut down mobile developer this month
Read More »Xbox One UK sales spike but PS4 still in control
Microsoft’s Xbox One has been the best-selling games console for four weeks in a row, MCV understands. The machine has benefited from a 30 price cut, while the launch of Titanfall last week caused a surge in console sales of 96 per cent. But retailers have told MCV that PS4 …
Read More »MGSV: Ground Zeroes PSN price is Sony led, designed to be competitive with High Street
This is a brave new world for games retail. Gamers have become accustomed to paying more for digital titles, despite the fact that logic should dictate that a digital product – which is free of material, logistics and distribution costs – should retail for less. But that may no longer …
Read More »PS4 update will allow DualShock 4 lightbar dimming
An upcoming update to PS4 will allow users to lower the light emitted from their DualShock 4 controllers. GameTrailers journalist Geoff Keighley had claimed on Twitter that users would be able to shut off the light completely, but he was corrected by Sony Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida who clarified that …
Read More »DirectX 12 unveiled with Forza 5 PC demo
Microsoft has revealed the latest version of its DirectX API at GDC. The new version has been designed work across across multiple platforms including PC, Xbox One, tablets and smartphones. It was claimed he API reduces CPU overhead significantly compared to DirectX 11 and was designed from scratch to take …
Read More »Team diversity behind Animal Crossing: New Leaf’s success
GDC 2014: The 3DS game has now sold more than 7.3 million copies worldwide
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