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Publisher Ubisoft is the first major third-party publisher to back virtual reality. The firm is developing multiple VR projects with an aim of becoming an ‘industry leader’ in the technology. Ubisoft’s stance comes in contrast to some of its rivals, who have decided to wait and see before investing significantly …

Danish developer Io Interactive has said that the freshly announced Hitman won’t have a Season pass as the studio isn’t a fan of the model. "Everything we ship on December 8th will be completely finished, it will be a very polished experience,” Io boss Hannes Seifert told VideoGamer. There are …

Surprise release gets early success in US and UK

The boss of Nintendo America has said that CEO Satoru Iwata did not tweet an apology for fans following the reaction to the company’s E3 Digital Event on Tuesday. An online translation of a tweet sent by the exec said: "Thank you for watching. We take opinions of this year’s …

Competition closes next week, offers devs the chance to win mobile publishing contract

Bethesda’s Fallout 4 must arrive this side of Christmas as promised, say UK retailers. Triple-A titles have continued to slip out of 2015, including the likes of Uncharted 4, Dead Island 2, Zelda, Quantum Break, The Division and more, weakening what had once promised to be a blockbuster end to …

Kickstarter is far from the only source of funding for Shenmue 3. The original Shenmue famously cost $47m to make, which has played a big part in Sega (or indeed any other publisher) stepping forward to make a new entry in the series. That’s also the reason why, once the …

The creator of DayZ Dean Hall is developing a virtual reality title for Valve’s SteamVR. That’s according to Eurogamer, who says that Hall told the site that the game in question is not the previously-announced space-simulation title Ion. "My studio RocketWerkz is [looking at VR],” Hall said. Not for [Ion].” …

AMD is doubling-down in its efforts to attract prospective virtual reality users with a brand new flagship GPU. The R9 Fury X is a dual-GPU card that features an ace up its sleeve – HBM. HBM stands for ‘high-bandwidth stacked memory’, a new design for graphics cards that AMD is …

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