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One year after its launch NCSoft has announced that sci-fi MMO WildStar will be going free-to-play this autumn. Developer Carbine has said that this decision was taken to open the game up to more users. The switch to free-to-play was hinted at earlier this month. WildStar launched last June and …

John Broomhall talks to composer Gareth Coker on creating the game’s unique music

A new version of Microsoft’s Xbox One controller might just have been leaked. According a page on Xbox’s Support website, this new game pad will feature a 3.5mm headphone jack – with the page noting that this will ‘only be available on controllers released after June 2015′. Other than that, …

For the first time in the history of the FIFA series consumers will be able to play as women. FIFA 16 will feature 12 Women’s National Teams from Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Sweden and the USA. Bringing some of the best women’s players and …

PlayStation’s digital refund policy is to be the focus of a segment on tonight’s (Thursday May 28th) Watchdog. The BBC’s consumer rights programme will be looking at the case of one John Lappin, a PlayStation 4 owner who was refused a refund after a fraudulent 39.99 purchase was made on …

Ireland developer begins recruitment drive to hire 40 new staff

The arcade game – Star Wars: Battle Pod – is being made for home use, and will cost the princely sum of 24,000. And that does not include the shipping and setting fee. Now, the premium edition of the Battle Pods will also be available from next month and are …

Intel Developer Blog: Getting started with Arduino

Studio founder Peter Molyneux to focus on duties as creative director

It appears that the release date for EA’s new Need for Speed game has been revealed. That’s according to the game’s listing on the Xbox website– spotted by Reddit users – which says that the new racing title will be hitting stores on November 5th. Keep in mind that this …