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PlayStation VR will need a fairly large clear space, according to documents that have cropped up online. Videogamer reports that a PS VR document uploaded to Reddit states a required area of 3 x 1.9 metres. Users are also required to be 0.6m back from the PlayStation Camera. This seems …

The semi finals and grand final of ELEAGUE will be broadcast live on Twitter over the weekend. The social network will host the full stream of all three matches from across the final weekend. The stream will host the observer feed of the event, meaning panel segments with on air …

The GeForce 970 was not quite the card it was made out to be, and Nvidia has agreed to pay out as a result. While the 970 was legitimately for a time the best bang-for-buck high-end graphics card on the market, the internal specs didn’t quite match up to the …

Month-long festival kick off with video games focus on August 8th and 9th

Morepeople are watching eSports, and for longer periods of time. Triple-A publishers are investing heavily in the space. And the prize pools are growing in size, with players competing for massive piles of cash. As these sums grow, so does the pressure and desire to win. To this end, we’ve …

Over 43.5m PS4 have now been shipped to retailers worldwide, Sony has revealed. That’s not the same as PS4’s sold, the most recent update for which was 40m+ at the end of May. The company still expects to sell 20m units of its console in its current financial year at …

Assassin’s Creed publisher Ubisoft has picked Stripe Communications as its retained consumer and corporate PR agency in the UK. Stripe will be working with Ubisoft’s in-house team on upcoming launches such as Ghost Recon: Wildlands, Watch Dogs 2 and South Park: The Fractured But Whole. The firm has been working …

Episodic games dev clarifies limitations for new multiplayer technology

Racing game will be launch title for PlayStation VR in Japan

Many assumed that the online multiplayer in Telltale’s upcoming Batman game would be perfect for streaming services like Twitch, but developer Telltale insists this isn’t the case. The firm has made an update to its blog post announcing the feature, saying that due to the high level of latency introduced …