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Virtual reality is a serious part of PlayStation’s future, according to Sony’s UK boss Andrew House. "It’s definitely more than an experiment,” he told The Guardian. We’ve made some commitments; we’re putting significant investment into the product. "With Oculus we saw this groundswell of game development that didn’t necessarily have …

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A Hearthstone tournament in Finland has actively banned females from participating. And even more absurdly, the company running the competition has argued the move was made as part of its effort to promote e-Sports as a legitimate sport”. PC Gamer reports that the IeSF World Championship, organised by the Finnish …

Ubisoft has secured a very respectable No.2 in the Japanese charts with the PS4 version of Watch Dogs. The PS3 SKU charted at No.5, according to the weekly Japanese Famitsu data. In the hardware charts Wii U sales are narrowly back on the up and still tracking ahead of PS4. …

The next device in the Nvidia Shield range will be a tablet and not a dedicated portable, reports suggest. The Vergespotted a listing for the Nvidia Shield Tablet on the Global Certification Forum (GCF) website. Earlier today EA COO Peter Moore said that the portable games sector was moving away …

Redmond-based developer Airtight Games has been closed just weeks after the release of its latest title, Murdered: Soul Suspect. The studio, perhaps better known for its games Dark Void and Quantum Conundrum, has been making games for 10 years – but now its headquarters has closed and its office equipment …

Dungeon Keeper on iOS is not free and must not be advertised as such. That’s the verdict of the Advertising Standards Authority, which has upheld a complaint about an advertisement for the game in which it was described as being free. The ad was also criticised for showing a well-developed …

Intel Developer Blog: Softtalkblog offers tips for making animations in HTML5

Satoru Iwata’s plan to reverse Nintendo’s decline has been given the backing of investors. As spotted by NeoGaf, the Nintendo boss has seen his approval rating amongst investors climb to 80.64 per cent, beating last year’s 77.26 per cent rating. Note however that it still lags far behind his 2010, …