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Sony has broken its silence on when it plans to announce launch details for the PS4 in India. Sony will hold a press conference between 15th and 18th December to reveal its launch plans for the PS4 in India, PlayStation India head Atindriya Bose told MCV at the launch of …

Hull is among the UK’s oldest institutions offering games development courses. But it prides itself on being a forward-thinking body that strives to ensure its students gain employment in this rapidly changing industry.The university has been training students into fully-fledged games programmers for 18 years, and has acquired a reputation …

Total Domination developer reveals why its Israel origins has helped it crack Facebook

PS4’s early advantage over Xbox One is purely because it retails for 80 less. That’s according to Michael Pachter, who has downplayed the importance of PS4’s technical advantage or any of the controversy that has dogged Microsoft since E3. "The reason Sony beats Microsoft is solely the price," Wedbush Securities …

Continuing its partnership with Mercedes-Benz, Sony held the launch of Gran Turismo 6 at the German automaker’s Prbhadevi showroom in Mumbai today. Aside from officially launching the game in India, the event was also where the 17-city Gran Turismo Racing Challenge came to its conclusion. Aashish Jain from Chennai came …

Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter has stepped up his media onslaught on Nintendo by saying that president Satoru Iwata should be sacked. "I don’t know why Iwata is still employed," Pachter told the Game Monetization USA Summit in San Francisco, GamesIndustry reports, adding that the Wii U’s commercial performance has …

CCP’s HR manager Scarlet Dangerfield explains why it’s good to make games as a service, and why you should get involved

PS4 games published by Sony will be priced at Rs 3,999 in India. PlayStation India head Atindriya Bose confirmed the pricing to MCV at the Gran Turismo 6 launch event in Mumbai earlier today. First-party game pricing is significant as several third-party publishers tend to take their pricing cues from …

Former Studio Liverpool and Wipeout developers have opened a new studio called Firesprite. As reported byIGN, the new company is led by MD Graeme Ankers, and it has already been at work developing Sony’s Studio Japan with work on PS4 title The Playroom. The developer has already built a team …