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A third patch that Ubisoft hopes will address some of the technical criticism aimed at Assassin’s Creed: Unity is on the way. In an unusually frank post the publisher has said that the vast numbers of NPCs (non-playable characters) on-screen at any one time is not connected to the game’s …

The number of video games websites will continue to dwindle, predicts IGN owner Ziff Davis. The firm’s international boss Geoff Inns told attendees at London Games Conference today that the demands on online media is becoming expensive, and requires media owners to have deep pockets and global scale. Inns says …

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 …