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Microsoft’s Xbox One sold around 150k units in its first 48 hours in the UK, MCV understands. Chart-Track this morning confirmed that Xbox One doubled the week one UK sales of its predecessor Xbox 360, which was launched worldwide in 2005. Numbers released the week after Xbox 360’s launch showed …

System 3 has recruited Brian Blessed for its Putty Squad trailer. The Blessed-voiced video takes viewers from the original 1994 title all the way to the remake coming to consoles soon. The promo includes the actor reading comments from games journalists on both the original and new release – including …

Giant Spacekat’s Brianna Wu opens up about her team breaking the mould on mobile with Unreal Engine 3

As night follows day talk of a hardware problem has accompanied last week’s global Xbox One launch. Whereas PS4 has its now catchily-titled ‘Blinking Blue Light of Death’ fault, online reports suggest that some Xbox One launch units are suffering from a somewhat less catchphrase-friendly disc drive error. Affected users …

Develop takes a look at the free-to-use cloud-based management platform

Industry veteran exits Doom developer to focus on his role as Oculus CTO

Microsoft's next-gen console matches day one sales of PS4

343 Industries dev leaves Microsoft

Microsoft’s brand new Xbox One claimed 80% of the UK’s total hardware sales last week, doubling the week one sales of Xbox 360. Forza 5 is the highest place Xbox One exclusive at No.5 in the UKIE Gfk Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 and is joined by two others in …

Corrinne Yu, who served as the principal engine programmer of Halo 4 at 343 Industries, has ended her tenure at Microsoft to join Naughty Dog. Gematsu reports Yu departs after a five-year run with the company, and has already begun her work for Sony’s well-established studio. Yu herself lists coding …