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What appears to be concrete talk about an updated version of the PlayStation 4 is probably the most interesting thing to have come out of GDC last week. For those who missed it, Kotaku seems to have what sounds like pretty firm inside news on a new version of PS4 …

Company calls Unreal Engine ‘purest’ engine due to reliance on royalty from games, rather than profit from cloud services and advertising

David Diaz, VP of developer relations at mobile advertising tech firm Fyber, asks studios whether tvOS will be able to repeat the mobile success of iOS on TV

When the Sacramento Kings’ Golden 1 Center opens in October for the tipoff of the 2016-2017 NBA Season, the $507 million arena will have 1,000 Wi-Fi access points for 17,500 seats and an 84-foot-long 4K video board. While these features are great for NBA fans, Kings co-owner Andy Miller believes …

Of the three big players entering the VR fold this year, only one has a chance of being a mainstream hit. That’s according to DFC, which claims that the PS4 accessory will not only be the only successful VR player arriving this year, but also that it could propel the …

Isometric perspective, permadeath and procedural dungeon generation all detailed in pitch for Blizzard North’s seminal 1996 debut

Indie studio working on its “most ambitious game” to date

Microsoft has apologised for its use of female dancers dressed as school girls at a GDC party last week. That the platform holder chose to present an event in this way shortly after hosting a Women in Gaming lunch at GDC angered attendees further still. Now the company has said …

Platform built on Lua will be a “significant step up” from games such as The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones

Gamers may in the future be able to sell their digital Xbox purchases back to Microsoft. As spotted by Neogaf, a survey has been sent out to Xbox owners asking whether they’d be willing to hand their digital purchases back to Microsoft in return for a rebate (in the form …