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NDreams CEO Patrick O’Luanaigh discusses why VR isn’t just a single-person experience
Read More »Machine Zone rebrands, shares Game of War cloud tech
Mobile giant allowing other devs to connect millions of players together
Read More »Hideo Kojima to grab Development Legend gong at Develop Awards 2016
Hideo Kojima will receive this year’s Development Legend prize at the Develop Industry Excellence Awards on Wednesday, July 13th. The award recognises his decades of visionary game design– most notably through his flagship Metal Gear Solid series, but also on Zone of the Enders, Boktai and his early titles such …
Read More »Hideo Kojima to be named Development Legend at Develop Awards 2016
Metal Gear Solid creator to be awarded top honour this July
Read More »Universally Speaking launches VR testing service
New office space acquired and adapted to providing QA for Oculus, Vive and more
Read More »PS4 and Xbox One component supplier says new products on the way this year
Chip manufacturer AMD has said that its Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom Business group, which supplies parts for PS4 and Xbox One, is preparing for the launch of new products in 2016. In our EESC segment, we had record shipments of our semi-custom SoCs powering the Playstation 4 and Xbox One …
Read More »Bala brothers leave Vicarious Visions
Co-founders depart as contracts with Activision expire, but will continue to consult with Skylanders publisher
Read More »You can try and pre-order HTC Vive in Harrods from today
HTC continues its push into the High Street with the announcement that its Vive VR headset will be sold in Harrods. As of today (Tuesday, April 5th), the department store will have hands-on demos, as well as the option to pre-order the new tech. This is the third High Street …
Read More »EA copyright claim forces fan-made Trump Mass Effect spoof offline
A pro-Donald Trump campaign video modelled around the trailer for EA’s Mass Effect 2 has been forced offline by the publisher. Game Informer reports that Trump retweeted what appeared to be a fan-made video that used the music and Martin Sheen voice-over from the Mass Effect short to promote the …
Read More »‘Xbox neXt’ hardware appears on designer profile
What appears to be a mention of a new Xbox console has appeared on a designer’s profile. As reported by Videogamer, a designer who has been at Microsoft since 2006, and working on Xbox since 2008, mentions Xbox One, Xbox SmartGlass, Xbox 360 and something called Xbox neXt in their …
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