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Bethesda has confirmed that PS4 owners will not need to subscribe to PlayStation Plus to play The Elder Scrolls Online. PS4 is the first Sony console to require that users sign up to the subscription arm of PlayStation network to access multiplayer. However, it appears from CVG‘s report that this …

Mo-cap and motion tracking firms team up to offer studios flexibility in facial and full-performance capture productions

A Japanese news channel is claiming that Sony is lining up a 7bn acquisition of a Renesas Electronics semiconductor plant. This is of note because the site currently produces the DRAM chips found in Nintendo’s Wii U. DualShockers reports that Sony is prepared to invest a further 20bn into the …

51m iPhones and 26m iPads were sold by Apple in Q4 2013. Both numbers are record-breaking for the firm, which in the same period a year before sold 47.8m iPhones and 22.9m iPads. The sales led to revenue of $57.6bn and net profit of $13.1bn – which was flat –for …

A rumoured successor to Nvidia’s Titan graphics card – the Titan Black – has been listed by an online store. Finnish store Multitronic Webshopis taking pre-ordersfor the card at €978,90 (806). The Titan has largely been replaced by the 780 Ti,which performs faster and costs less than the Titan,but doesn’t …

Funding to go toward expanding global presence and improving user experience

A games-focused under-the-TV entertainment system will be launched by Amazon in 2014, a new report has claimed. VG247 claims to have word from multiple sources” that a $300 machine will be launched this year that offers the streaming and download of games, music, movies and TV content”. It will run …

Riot Games MMO being played by twice as many players compared to 2012

Former Epic developer and Gears of War designer Cliff Bleszinski has celebrated yesterday’s sale of the Gears of War IP to Microsoft. He also believes Rod Fergusson, another former Epic man who has also made the jump to Microsoft, is the right man for the brand’s new lease of life. …

Austin-based studio working with Vince Zampella's team to port next-gen blockbuster