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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 …

Former Games TM editor Samuel Roberts is the new editor of Future mag PC Gamer. His previous roles include deputy editor at Play magazine and SciFiNow. He was also a finalist in the Rising Star category at the 2009 Games Media Awards. He begins at PC Gamer on December 11th. …

Gamesaid has begun a Christmas campaign to get games firms to donate unwanted merchandise to its eBay activity. The UK games industry charity raises money throughout the year and is distributed annually, as per the votes of Gamesaid members. Almost 1m has been raised since Gamesaid was founded five years …

An interview with managing director Robert Troughton on the UK studio’s origins

Play.com owner Rakuten has claimed that Nintendo’s Wii U has seen a 75 per cent sales spike in October. The company predicts that Wii U and iPad will be more popular than Xbox One and PS4 amongst children this Christmas. It adds that a Twitter analysis has revealed that its …