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The end of the line has come, perhaps surprisingly early, for Xbox 360. Microsoft has announced that it is ending production of the console just over ten years after it arrived. Once current supplies have gone, that will be it. Xbox 360 means a lot to everyone in Microsoft. And …

New SuperData Research report shows general public yet to be reached by VR hype, revises 2016 forecasts for VR industry

Further rumours about Sony’s upcoming PS4 upgrade point to a possible forced alteration to how some developers make their games. Yesterday a Giant Bomb story shed new light on the mystery hardware, which apparently carries the internal name ‘PS4 Neo’. Now Videogamer reports that the Giant Bomb podcast has released …

One analyst has now significantly reduced its expectations for the financial impact virtual reality will have on the market in 2016. SuperData had at one stage predicted that VR revenues would reach $5.1bn in 2016. In March that was reduced to $3.6bn. Now the company has revised that second estimate …

Koei Tecmo has still got a long way to go before it believes that Dead or Alive fans have run out of money for more scantily clad virtual females. DualShockers reports that Dead or Alive 5: Last Round will soon offer a DLC Costume Pass that will in time offer …

MoGi Group has signed on to support next month’s Interface. The company, a provider of video game localisation services, will be in attendance as over 350 developers come to London for a series of one-to-one pitching meetings with publishers. There will be a number of publishing houses hunting for new …

It will be augmented reality, and not virtual reality, that will prove to be the next big technological leap, the director of The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy has said. Peter Jackson, who sits on the advisory board of American AR startup Magic Leap, told Wired that the technology …

Streamer Brandon ‘DM Brandon’ Nance has announced his decision to quit the scene shortly after he embarked on a controversial rant about the morality of suicide. Eurogamer reports that the outburst followed a $5 donation on his stream from a viewer who added that watching Nance’s streams had helped them …

New Yo-Kai Watch title Sangokushi has claimed its third No.1 in the Japanese charts according to data from Famitsu. Sales of the 3DS title fell by 64 per cent week-on-week, a slightly higher drop than the 57 per cent the week before. In second place is Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker …

Following the translation of its retro-inspired card game Boss Monster into the world of VR, co-founder of tabletop publisher Brotherwise Games Chris O'Neal explains what the increasing collision between virtual and physical titles means for both gaming worlds