Publishing

Only eight countries get Xbox One voice control at launch

Kinect control of the Xbox One will be limited to just eight of the console’s 13 launch countries in November. Xbox One will ship with voice control support for five regions: the UK, US, Canada, France and Germany. That therefore means that the console’s other launch countries – Australia, Austria, …

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Xbox creates European publishing team

Microsoft has announced the creation of a European publishing team, which will be led by Lionhead Studio’s boss John Needham. "What we’re trying to do with this team – it’s a first party publishing group – is across Europe find triple-A quality games that we can publish," Needham told GamesInudstry …

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PES 2014: Konami explains lack of rain effect, Spanish stadiums, stadium editor

Pro Evolution Soccer 2014 won’t feature the rain effect or any Spanish stadiums, both for very different reasons. The omission of rain, as European community manager Adam Bhatti puts it, was down to the game being rebuilt from scratch, and the team therefore not having the time to include the …

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"Aggressive" EA licensing leads to PES 2014 cuts; Rain also missing

Konami has confirmed a couple of features that won’t make it into the extremely promising looking PES 2014. Chief amongst them is the omission of rain. Rain has not been implemented for 2014 as we had to overhaul the whole game and build it from scratch,” a memo posted by …

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Smartphone app can remotely turn on PS4s for downloads

Sony’s president of Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida has confirmed an interesting bit of functionality for PS4. Speaking on Twitter, the exec revealed that consumers who buy a PS4 title using the corresponding smartphone app can remotely prompt their PS4 consoles to turn on and download the game. The machine will …

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