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Further redundancies confirmed across NCSoft's western operations

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PS3 owners will soon be able to buy entire series of TV shows for a single lump sum on PSN. The digital marketplace’s Video Unlimited section will as of today allow people to buy access to specific TV series, even if some episodes have yet to be released. Once purchased …

Xbox group revenue increases 58 per cent year-on-year.

A number of developers have lost their jobs amidst a restructuring at MMO makers NCsoft. Today we announced a restructuring of key operations within NC West,” an official statement confirmed. As a result of this restructuring, we are implementing staff reductions across our Western operations with the exclusion of ArenaNet. …

Creative Skillset recently launched its cross-sectorWorkforce Surveyfor the games, TV, radio, film, animation, VFX and digital media industries. And the results are used to inform where funding is needed in each sector to develop skills and train up staff. But despite receiving a good response rate from the VFX and …

#gamediversity condemns threats and abuse; Mojang, Avalanche, King and Paradox pledge support for campaign

Ubisoft has confirmed some pretty demanding minimum requirements for PC owners looking to play Assassin’s Creed: Unity. When it comes to processors the minimum spec is either an Intel Core i5-2500K (3.3GHz), AMD FX-8350 (4.0GHz) or AMD Phenom II x4 940 (3.0GHz). The recommended CPUs are the Intel Core i7-3770 …

2.4m Xbox consoles were shipped to retail in the quarter ending September 30th. Microsoft’s initial wording appeared to suggest that the number represented consoles sold to consumers, but it has since been confirmed that this is not the case. It has not been specified how many of that number were …