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Microsoft decision to slash the price of Xbox One by dropping Kinect could propel the console to the front of the American next-gen race. IDC had previously predicted that Xbox One would take the lead in the territory by 2016 but now the firm reckons this will happen in 2015 …

Executive producer Michael Krach tells us how the developer survived financial meltdown and what's changed since Koch Media's acquisition

Microsoft has revealed one big difference between Games With Gold on Xbox One and Xbox 360. On Xbox One, active Gold membership required to play free games you’ve downloaded,” the company has said. [Users] must download titles during designated window.” That’s different to how things work on Xbox 360, which …

Kenneth Scott joins Oculus to work on art direction and head up its internal content group

The Foundry looks at how Mad Atom Games used Modo to carve out its niche with iOS games such as Monkey Slam and CSR Classics

Deal with Halo: Spartan Assault developer could be an indication that Nexon is looking to snap up quality titles

Three year investment initiative to boost local industry cut short

Next title will be released for Xbox One and PS4, E3 unveiling unconfirmed

Sony’s gaming division has, as expected, posted its fourth annual loss in five years. Net losses totalled 128.4bn for the year ending March 31st. Operating income fell by 200bn to 26.5bn. Sony’s games division reported an operating loss of 8.1bn, down from last year’s 1.7bn profit, a figure mostly blamed …

Xbox Ones that are not attached to a Kinect camera could receive a performance boost. Microsoft has previously detailed how a certain percentage of the system’s power is constantly reserved for a handful of OS-specific tasks such as Kinect usage and running multiple programs. However, now that Microsoft has officially …