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PS4 has been a smash hit in the West but has struggled to take off in Japan since its arrival in the region in February. The machine had a fantastic launch selling 322,083 units in its first two days, bettering the PS3’s Japanese launch performance by 88,443 units. Since then, …

The London Games Conference returns on Wednesday November 19th – with a clutch of high profile brands already involved. Sessions already confirmed come from Buzzfeed, Twitch, Gamer Network and Ubisoft – they will respectively draw on their experiences with social content, lifestreams and video, events and post-release customer service. Event …

Audio-themed evening will reveal more about the sounds behind Monument Valley and Tearaway

Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has been hounded on Twitter after a consumer complained about the firm’s ‘sexist’ engraving rules. Justyn Hintze wrotea blog postexplaining how Apple would not let her engrave the Alix Olson lyrics "I’ll give myself a lube job, shake my broomstick til my clit throbs" on her …

The UK marketing boss of Xbox has said that one of Microsoft’s challenges is to overcome the disparity between the perceptions and realities of differing framerates and resolutions. Xbox One has since launch been troubled by the fact that several cross-platform titles offer either a lower resolution or framerate on …

Development specialists offer advice on how you can bag that career leap

You can play Elite: Dangerous RIGHT NOW. Providing you’re willing to pay 100. That’s the price Frontier is charging for the game plus access to the Premium. The Standard Beta SKU is 50 and the game 35 – with the option of a further 35 for the DLC Expansion Pass. …

Licensing deal allows UK firm to develop new games based on series engine

The closure of a studio is never something to celebrate, but at least the Neversoft team went out in a (quite literal) blaze of glory. The Tony Hawk and Guitar Hero developer was closed today and the team is being merged with Infinity Ward,as announced back in May. The new …

Guitar Hero dev merging with Infinity Ward, team given knives as leaving presents