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Don’t expect Sony or Microsoft to cut the price of the next-gen consoles at E3 next week, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter has warned. Furthermore, he even expects the promotions currently in place for Xbox One will actually be reversed. "We do not expect price cuts for the Xbox One …

Koji Igarashi’s Kickstarter sensation Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night has met a stretch goal promising a PS Vita port for the upcoming title. Anupdate postfor the campaign notes the Vita port is being developed by Armature, the same studio that will be developing the Wii U port promised at the …

A compilation of six Mega Man titles will be released as the Mega Man Legacy Collection for PC and current-gen consoles, Capcom has announced. The collection is expected to launch later this summer Windows PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. A Nintendo 3DS release is also expected to arrive sometime …

New contenders have arrived to challenge the likes of GTA and The Witcher franchises on Steam’s latest weekly top ten selling products list. Lego Worlds makes it debut in third, while Early Access newcomer Ark: Survival Evolved vaulted ahead of Grand Theft Auto V and into first for the week. …

The Order: 1886 developer opening new business development and publishing arm

Ready At Dawn has named Paul Sams as its new CEO as it seeks to publish its own games. The studio, best known this year for PS4 exclusive The Order: 1886, wants to create its own ‘transmedia IP’ and is on the hunt for investors. Sams – the longtime COO …

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Developers selected to receive a dev kit for the new Vive VR headset should be receiving them soon. Valve announced that it has started shipping the Vive Developer Editionsvia the Steam website, havingopened applications for the hardware back in April. Hinting at the variety of companies that will soon get …

It seems you can pick up a subscription box for just about anything these days. Are you after an assortment of healthy snacks? Graze has you covered. What about make-up? Then try Glossybox. So it’s no surprise then that a number of these subscription boxes have appeared within the game …

Last-gen console owners won’t be invited to the Fallout 4 party, Bethesda has said. The game was officially announced last week with PS4, Xbox One and PC as the named platforms. Rumours had pointed to a last-gen release, too, but it seems that this was wide of he mark. It …