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Microsoft has released a video showing how its ‘snap’ feature will work on Xbox One. The new console specialises in running apps simultaneously, meaning that gamers can have other things displayed on screen at the same time as they game. As shown below, users need only call out a command …

Zero Dependency's Andy Esser breaks down the process of setting up a new studio as a registered company

UK developer offering funding, marketing, localisation and QA services to potential partners

You’re going to have to keep hold of your PS3 if you want to carry on making use of that 3D copy of Avatar you bought for 20. After it was revealed earlier this week that Xbox One won’t support 3D Blu-ray movies, it now looks as if the same …

Who’d have thought that Call of Duty: Ghosts would prove to be one of the most controversial games of 2013? Activision’s shooter found itself at the centre of a next-gen storm earlier this month when it was confirmed that it will run at 1080p on PS4 and 720p on Xbox …

President of Sony Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida has said that a healthy and successful Nintendo is vital to the overall video games industry. When you look at the situation around Nintendo that way, do you characterize Nintendo as our competition?” he told IGN, as transcribed by MyNintendoNews. I think in …

There have been more pre-orders for PS4 than Xbox One, Ubisoft chief executive Yves Guillemot has suggested. CVG reports that the exec told investors last night that: "Even if the PS4 is in front of Xbox One pre-orders… we are not worried at all. We think [Xbox One] will be …

Publisher benefits from solid critical performance, but increased R&D costs mean losses are growing

The Assassin’s Creed film has been scheduled for a summer 2015 release. The Hollywood Reporter has word that the film’s distributor Fox has dated the debut August 7th, 2015, after earlier reports had the movie arriving in theaters during late May of that year. The adaptation has the late summer …

Ubisoft has reported its half-year financial results, posting sales revenue of €293m for the period. The figure represents a five per cent year-over-year increase, with Q2 sales specifically showing an increase of 46.6 per cent and exceeding Ubisoft’s own expectations by €17m. Digital sales saw significant growth as well, up …