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Co-founder of id jumped ship when Zenimax turned down virtual reality pitch

Satya Nadella’s appointment as new Microsoft CEO does not mean former favourite Stephen Elop won’t be returning to Microsoft. Indeed, The Verge reports that Elop WILL shortly return to Microsoft to lead an expanded devices team focused on Surface, Windows Phones, and Xbox”. Meanwhile, current Microsoft Studios corporate VP Phil …

Studio expanding publishing operations and hiring for new team to work on second game

Sega has shot down rumours that its next Nintendo-exclusive Sonic title will go multi-format. The publisher’s community manager Kellie Parker took to the Sega forums and said thatthe information from Nuremburg Toy Fair – which stated that 2015’s Sonic game would be coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Wii …

Hideo Kojima has confessed than one next-gen version of Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes looks better than the other. In an article in GameInformer, as reported by VideoGamer, it states that "Kojima notes that MGS V looks slightly better on the PS4 compared to the Xbox One, something we …

Amazon.in has officially launched what it calls India’s largest video games store. As we’d reported earlier, the retailer had a soft launch of its games section in December that only included consoles and peripherals, but now also includes games across PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo and PC platforms. Also, the video games …

John Carmack ultimately left id Software because Zenimax wouldn’t approve of a proposed VR deal with Oculus Rift, the industry veteran has revealed. Speaking with USA Today, Carmack admitted he’d still be with id today in some capacity – if the studio’s parent company Zenimax would have approved of his …

Codemasters has pulled in a cool $1m this week, thanks to the UK studio’s Humble Weekly Sale promotion. The pay-what-you-want sale has so far sold more than 217,000 bundles and brought in $1.11m, with still a day and change to go at time of writing. Codemasters and Humble Bundle aren’t …

Global PC gamer spending increased year-over-year in 2013, in spite of a comparative lack of major new releases. Games Industry reports on the findings of research group DFC Intelligence, which states the PC portion of the market continues to grow in the midst of a seemingly dry release schedule. Core …

Bill Gates steps down as chairman to become technical advisor