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$800. That’s the amount it will take to buy HTC’s Steam VR Vive headset on launch day. It’s a staggering amount of money, even surpassing Oculus Rift’s at-the-time astonishing $600 RRP. That, incidentally, translated to 500 in the UK, so if Vive follows the same pattern we could be looking …

Apple boss Tim Cook has received the backing of Google CEO Sundar Pichai in his security row with the US government. Cook earlier this week said he would not abide by FBI orders to create what he sees as a security backdoor to iOS that allow authorities to access a …

Film director Guillermo del Toro has once again lashed out at business practices that he believes lesser the creative endeavours of the games industry. I think it’s a pity,” Del Toro said at last night’s DICE panel, as reported by VentureBeat. It is a marriage that happens in every big …

As has become a sort-of tradition at PlayStation’s E3 conference, the platform holder showed a snappy sizzle reel of upcoming indie games from publisher Devolver Digital. Last year, there were a number of interesting titles, including Eitr, a 2D RPG title – coming to PS4 and PC – with more …

UPDATE: 2K has told MCV that in the UKthe physical game is not coming to PS3, Xbox 360 or PC, and that the PS4 and Xbox One versions are exclusive to GAME. ORIGINAL STORY: Telltale Games has pencilled in a boxed release for former digital-only title Tales from the Borderlands. …

As we countdown to the MCV Awards 2016, which takes place in London on March 3rd, we profile each of the finalists for the Peripherals category A4T In 2015, A4T held the biggest market-share of any company (incl. first party) in PS4 chargers, PS3 chargers and PS3 headsets, with the …

The decision to drop a potential 2016 mainline release in the Assassin’s Creed series could signify a longer-term strategical shift. Ubisoft confirmed earlier this month that it was taking a step back to evaluate the future of the series. Games Industry reports that now boss Yves Guillemot has said at …

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The market share enjoyed by Windows Phone handsets has more than halved in the last year. The latest Worldwide Smartphone Shipments report from Gartner shows that Q4 2015 shipments of Windows Phone devices fell to 4.4m units, giving it around 1.1 per cent market share of the period. That’s down …