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Activision’s Call of Duty starts 2016 as it ended 2015: in the No.1 spot in the All Formats Top 40. The title holds pole position, despite a 68 per cent drop in sales, ahead of soccer blockbuster FIFA 16. EA’s football game climbed two places this week and reaches No.2. …
Read More »A killer year for Techland
We speak to the Dying Light development director Pawel Zawodny
Read More »PDP controller battery promises eight hours play from one minute charge
Wireless controllers are one of the most welcome additions to modern consoles, but they come at a price. That price being – if you run out of charge mid-game (and you will thanks to the limited battery life) you face a spell sitting a couple of feet from the screen …
Read More »Pirated PC games could be a thing of the past by 2018
The era of free PC gaming could be nearing an end. TorrentFreak reports that the founder of a leading Chinese PC piracy forum has warned that anti-piracy tech is developing at such a pace that new titles may become unbreakable in as little as two years. The most recent security …
Read More »Half-Life writer Marc Laidlaw has left Valve
'I have been feeling a need for a break from the collaborative chaos of game production,' says co-creator of beloved franchise
Read More »Amazon Canada pulls listing for $800 PlayStation VR
Could Sony’s PlayStation VR actually retail for MORE than Oculus Rift? Forbes reports that a now removed listing for the device on Amazon Canada carried a price of $1,125 Canadian dollars – that’s just shy of 550. And with the way exchange rates work, that could in reality translate to …
Read More »Hellblade launching simultaneously on PS4 and PC
Developer Ninja Theory has confirmed that its upcoming game Hellblade will be coming to PlayStation 4 and PC on the same day. The studio announced this on its official Twitter account (below) when replying to a fan. The title was announced at Gamescom 2014 on Sony’s stage. Hellblade was revealed …
Read More »Over 100 games in development for PlayStation VR
Sony CEO Kaz Hirai says 200 studios are working with the new virtual reality hardware
Read More »Star Wars open-world RPG Kickstarter cancelled by 20-year-old creator
An impossible dream of creating a triple-A Star Wars RPG has, unsurprisingly, been cancelled by its creator. The pitch lit up parts of the internet earlier this week. With all the open world RPGs out there how is there not a good one for Star Wars?” it asked. I have …
Read More »Descent designer claims Interplay owed eight years of royalties
Co-creators of classic sci-fi title say they still own the copyright on their games
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