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Elder Scrolls Online team Zenimax Online Studios has been hit with a round of layoffs, Bethesda VP of PR and Marketing Pete Hines has confirmed. Hines provided an explanation for the redundancies toJoystiq– stating that the level of customer service necessary six months ago when the game launched is no …

Soon it won’t be only the PlayStation Vita that offers PS4 Remote Play. Sony’s new Xperia Z3 range – including the vanilla Z3, the Z3 Compact and the Z3 Tablet – will also allow users to stream games from their PS4 using the existing PlayStation App, which will from November …

Project Cars has been dated, according to GAME. The PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC versions of Slightly Mad Studios’ crowd-funded racing title will be hitting shelves on November 21st. And the Wii U SKU is still on track for a 2015 release. The above was revealed by GAME via …

A number of Chinese companies are in discussions over a possible acquisition of Ouya, according to reports. Recode claims that Ouya has already held preliminary talks with multiple big players in China” – including Tencent – after the company decided that an acquisition was a more realistic goal than trying …

There is now officially a new entrant in the virtual reality space. Produced in collaboration with Oculus, the Gear VR is effectively a head-mounted housing for the company’s new Galaxy Note 4 ‘phablet’, using its 5.7-inch Quad HD Super AMOLED screen to display the two separate images that comprise the …

Tech built for use with mobile phones and set for release this year

Chris Bruzzo has been named as EA’s new chief marketing officer. Bruzzo has formerly been involved with branding both at Starbucks, where he headed the digital and loyalty programs, and Amazon. EA says the exec will lead an integrated marketing, communications, web and digital service organization designed to advance our …

Smash hit 3DS title Yokai Watch 2 has finally been knocked off the Japanese software chart top spot, according to the latest data from Famitsu. The multi-million-selling title fell to fourth in the rankings last week, as a flood of new releases took the top three. Coming in first was …

Downloading games actually has a larger environmental impact than buying them physically, a new report has claimed. A study called The Carbon Footprint of Games Distribution in the Journal of Industrial Ecology says that more energy is used in the playing of games than the production or distribution of them. …

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