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PS4 will have outsold its rival Xbox One to the tune of 11m units within five years, research firm IHS has predicted. The company believes that by 2017 PS4 will have sold 49m units worldwide with Xbox One trailing behind on 38m units. IHS believes that Sony’s wider geographical brand …

The GallantCloud team scraps work on a title and begins afresh with a new designer

Finnish studio’s latest shooter would be ‘a lot less dynamic’ without PS4’s architecture

Emmy award-winning storyteller Elan Lee was hired by Microsoft this summer to help shape the future of storytelling. What exactly does that mean? MCV attempts to find out, to mixed success… You recently did a talk entitled ‘My mother has no idea what I do for a living.’ Why is …

Shainiel Deo tells Develop where he think the major growth areas in gaming and social are

Surprise – Amazon has launched a PlayStation Network Digital Games and DLC Store in the US. Kotaku reports that the store will offer content for PS4, PS3 and Vita and is a direct alternative to buying directly through Sony. Buyers will be given codes upon purchase that can be redeemed …

Nearly 350 student entrants from around the world brings total contest submissions to over 1,000

UK developers debate whether new studios should pitch to traditional publishers or explore other routes to market

The additional graphical flourish that will accompany next-gen games will result in another fundamental change – filesizes are set to explode. That doesn’t really matter when you’re talking about games on a Blu-ray. After all, it matters not whether your disc is carrying 5MB or 50GB of data. But if …

‘Buy great games at great prices 24/7 and support charity with every purchase’ says Humble Bundle