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The next competitor in the increasingly crowded virtual reality sector has been pictured for the first time. It was reported in May that the Korean company was working on a VR device, but now SamMobile claims to have obtained the first picture of what will be called the Gear VR. …

Lead architect Mark Cerny says new-gen game concepts shaped PlayStation’s new console

Did you know there’s going to be another Sharknado film? There is. And now there’s going to be a game too. Syfy’s 2013 b-movie outing Sharknado was for reasons unfathomable to man a cult hit. So much so, in fact, that the station will on July 30th debut Sharknado 2: …

For just £15m the government could give every child in the UK a Raspberry Pi, claims champion of UK creative industries

Square Enix’s Lords of the Fallen, which is definitely not Dark Souls, at last has a UK release date. That game will be released for PS4, Xbox One and PC on October 31st in the UK, priced at 49.99 on consoles and 29.99 on PC. That means it will arrive …

PlayStation was viewed extremely negative from large parts of Sony before it launched, Andrew House revealed at Develop Conference today. In a piece that looked back on the history of the PlayStation business, House and Cerny took a trip down memory lane to discuss the origins and growth of the …

Back in 2011, days before Andrew House moved to Japan to become CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, MCV sat down with him to conduct his final interview as Sony Europe President. The piece looked at the career history of the man who would go on the become the most powerful …

Xbox One exclusive Project Spark finally has a release date. The creative interactive world build will be released for Xbox One and Windows 8.1 in the UK on October 10th. In the same week gamers will also have the choice of shelling out for Sega’s Alien: Isolation and Middle-earth: Shadow …

The CEO of Trion Worlds has said that more titles should considering adopting a free-to-pay model, as paying upfront for games becomes harder to justify. If there’s one thing we’re learned through all of our own prior development, it’s that the barrier of having to purchase a thing before getting …

1,542 games were rated by PEGI last year – that’s 1,208 fewer than were rated than back in the heady days of 2009. It also represents a continued decrease in the number of traditional titles hitting the High Street, with 2,538 rated in 2010, 2,214 in 2011 and 1,813 in …