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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 …
Read More »Epic: Unreal puts more of a focus on devs’ success than Unity and Amazon
Company calls Unreal Engine ‘purest’ engine due to reliance on royalty from games, rather than profit from cloud services and advertising
Read More »Games on Apple TV: New hope or just hype?
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
Read More »Sacramento Kings Owner Says New NBA Arena Was Designed For ESports
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 …
Read More »Only PlayStation VR can be a mainstream hit, analyst claims
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 …
Read More »Diablo’s original design doc reveals beginnings of iconic RPG
Isometric perspective, permadeath and procedural dungeon generation all detailed in pitch for Blizzard North’s seminal 1996 debut
Read More »Konami producer Dave Cox reunites with Castlevania dev MercurySteam
Indie studio working on its “most ambitious game” to date
Read More »Spencer apologises for school girl dancers GDC stunt
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 …
Read More »Telltale overhauling in-house Tool engine for Batman
Platform built on Lua will be a “significant step up” from games such as The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones
Read More »Microsoft surveys about possible digital games buy-backs
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 …
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