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Buzzfeed has delivered its advice on how marketers can succeed in a social world at London Games Conference this morning. Philip Byrne delivered the firm’s ‘commandments of being interesting’ on the internet and, in particular, Buzzfeed itself, which he says is on course to becoming the world’s biggest news and …

PlayStation’s UK boss Fergal Gara has said that the next stage in PS4’s development should see the hardware broaden its audience to attract amore casual crowd. We want to see in the next year or two is a bigger mass market play, shall we say,” Gara told Redbull.com. So in …

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The president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America has suggested that PS4 has sold around double the number of Xbox One units shifted worldwide. When asked by Gamesbeat whether PS4 has about a two-to-one advantage over Xbox One”, Shawn Layden replied: The math seems to look like that. It’s …

The rate at which Xbox One is narrowing its sales gap behind PS4 is accelerating. That’s according to EA CFO Blake Jorgensen, who Gamasutra reports told an audience at the UBS Global Technology Conference that: "Clearly Sony has jumped out to a lead with a great console and I think …

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There’s yet more technical bad news afoot for Sony’s PS4. Eurogamer reports that an increasing number of Grand Theft Auto V owners are claiming to have encountered problems when trying to download the game’s 1.14GB day one patch. Some say they are unable to get the patch to download at …

A former minister for the French Socialist Party has criticised the depiction of key figures in the French Revolution in Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed: Unity. "[The game] presents an image of hatred of the Revolution, hatred of the people, hatred of the republic which is rampant in today’s far-right,” Jean-Luc Mlenchon …

Indie studio Robotoki’s upcoming title Human Element has decided to ditch free-to-play in favour of becoming a premium product. Gamasutra reports that, as a result, the game will no longer be published by Nexon. "Nexon and Robotoki have come to a mutual decision to end their publishing agreement for the …

A patch designed to help alleviate the ongoing online problems faced by Halo: The Master Chief Collection will not arrive tomorrow as planned. The game has since release battled with issues preventing players successfully finding matches online – issues that developer 343 has yet to fully resolve. This week’s content …