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PS4 Neo? Check. Nintendo NX? Check. Xbox Two? Maybe. Chip manufacturer AMD has dropped the second hint in as many weeks that all three platform holders are very much gearing up for new hardware launches. Ars Technica reports that in an earnings call the company cited three semi-custom system-on-chip (SOC) …

Support for virtual currency coming soon, with Valve promising it has ‘a system that insulates partners from risk and volatility ‘ in place

Last week, Gamer Network CEO Rupert Loman declared his disappointment in GAME. He was referring to the retailer’s new GAMEFest event, a consumer expo that will take place four weeks before his own EGX show… and at the same venue (Birmingham NEC). Upon making some allusions to the fact the …

EA’s first-person parkour title Mirror’s Edge Catalyst is being moved out of its May release window. This delay was announced via a blog post on the game’s official website from design director Erik Odeldahl. The title is being pushed back two weeks from May 26th to June 9th in Europe. …

Oddworld Inhabitants’ co-founder Lorne Lanning has said that Sony Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida told him that a PS5 is in no way certain? The reason? That consoles need to embrace a more iterative hardware update model, which all signs suggest will kick off with the PS4 Neo. Yes,” Lanning told …

Retailer Amazon has decided that it will only sell certain games to members of Amazon Prime. As reported by Videogamer, a handful of titles have been spotted so far that carry the banner ‘exclusively for Prime members’. The info pop-up confirms that: This item, sold by Amazon, is currently reserved …

4Music, The Box and Kerrang TV owner The Box Plus Network wants to increase the amount of video games content shown on its networks. Viewers of these channels have become accustomed to special features on movies, but the company hopes that games can claim an increasingly large share. The network …

Gears of War was the quintessential Xbox 360 series. It was a high-budget, triple-A franchise with a huge focus on the then-new world of online console multiplayer. It’s a franchise that has sold over 22m units and generated over $1 billion since its 2006 debut. And after working on last …

One of the internet’s more reliable tipsters has said that Horizon: Zero Dawn will miss its 2016 release. Well…Horizon: Zero Dawn’s getting delayed to early 2017 from what I’m told,” shinobi602 said on Twitter. Going to look splendid on PS4k though. Just to clarify, Horizon’s going to look absolutely incredible …

‘By deliberately not participating in the ‘culture of sales’, at least for a while, you risk losing out on revenue and visibility that those sales could have generated’