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The PC port of Konami’s Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes will be released before the end of the year. Specifically, the game will arrive on Steam on December 18th. The PC SKU will offer 4K graphics as well as an increase in simultaneous light sources, the number of models …

Users of GAME’s smartphone app are now able to scan the front covers of games in store to access information and discounts. The new ‘Scan it!’ functionality uses a smartphone’s camera to view a game’s cover instead of scanning its barcode. It then offers a ‘personalised price’ depending on said …

Colour display TinyScreen works in tandem with computer processor TinyDuino to build handheld

Graphical standards are now so high that the challenge of impressing consumers with flash visuals is bigger then ever. That’s according to Crytek’s principal rendering engineer Nicolas Schulz, who told DSOG of the PC port of Ryse: Son of Rome: I think with its advances in material quality, lighting and …

PS4 owners in the UK will be able to begin pre-loading DriveClub onto their consoles this Wednesday. That means they’ll have two days to get the 17GB game installed onto their consoles before its official release on Friday (October 10th). Pre-loading is due to start any moment in the US …

Hamburg firm has recruited 400 staff since start of the year

The appealing IllumiRoom tech demo shown off by Microsoft last year has expended into an even more technologically complicated beast. IllumiRoom sparked interest in January 2013 and used a combination of Kinect and projectors to expand a gaming environment beyond the confines of the TV screen to encompass an entire …

Daniel Dawkins, group editor-in-chief for games, tells MCV about Future Publishing’s major transition and the challenge of good journalism What are your main campaigns at the moment? We’re busy with the Golden Joysticks Awards, which move to a fantastic new venue this year, Indigo at 02. We’ve already broken a …

A car bomb threat was issued to the building that Gearbox Software, creator of the Borderlands series, is based in. Studio boss Randy Pitchfordtweeteda series of updates from the dev’s HQ in Piano, Texas. The police eventually gave the all clear, but did not give any more details of the …

Microsoft will ship DirectX 12 alongside Windows 10 in 2015, the computing firm has announced. The company has also revealed the latest version of its DirectX API will be supported by Unreal Engine 4.4. Developers in the Early Access program who subscribe to UE4 will also have access to the …