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After 14 years and 12 games, Ratchet & Clank has become a solid if unspectacular franchise for PlayStation. Almost all of those titles are decent action platform games, and the series has a loyal group of die-hard fans. But it’s been a long time since the Lombax and his robot …

Armada Interactive has raised $3 million in investment from backers including Next Games and Initial Capital

Andrew Pruett, former global head of publisher relations and business development for Apple’s mobile advertising division, has been unveiled as the new CEO of NRG eSports. After more than a decade working in advertising, sales, and business development Pruett will now manage the eSports organisation full time. Having worked at …

Streaming platform DingIt.TV has announced that the successful CS:GO tournament Operation Kinguin will return for a third season. Starting on April 27th the third season of Operation Kinguin will feature a $20,000 prize pool, which 32 teams will be competing for. The season will feature 75 games across 40 different …

Microsoft discontinues console after 10 years and around 80 million sales

'I find mixed reality much more exciting than VR – mixed reality doesn’t take you out of this world,' says Lord of the Rings director

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 …