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Publishers holding back game development to focus on PS4 and Xbox One releases

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has paid tribute to his predecessor Hiroshi Yamauchi. Yamauchi passed away yesterday morning in a Kyoto hospital after a battle with pneumonia. In a statement released by Iwata, the platform holder’s current boss vowed to stay true to the values that saw Yamauchi make Nintendo the …

Sony has announced that the PlayStation 4 will release in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea in December, and with no Indian release date yet, this could be bad news for Sony India. The December release window for Asia will surely put pressure on Sony India to release the …

PS4 users will be able to control some elements of the console using gestures and voice. The news, Engadget reports, comes from the Tokyo Game Show. It is understood that Sony’s PlayStation Eye was at one stage a compulsory element of the console that was to be bundled with the …

Start-up claims to turn web browsers in to consoles and cut dev time and costs in half

Crowdfunded medieval sword combat game is latest Kickstarter to come up short

Indie team gets partnership with Mac tools company for unnamed PC title

A group of industry veterans from Telltale’s The Walking Dead and Klei Entertainment’s Mark of the Ninja teams have founded new indie development studio, Campo Santo. Co-founders include former Telltale designer and writer Sean Vanaman, creative director and designer Jake Rodkin, along with Mark of the Ninja lead designer Nels …

Nearly half of all Xbox Live subscribers average an hour a day or more watching video content, Microsoft has revealed. According to a report by VG247, Microsoft’s COO Kevin Turner revealed that 42 per cent of Xbox Live users watch 30 hours of movie and television content monthly. Turner added …

Sony has revealed its Gaikai-powered cloud-streaming service will launch in 2014, offering an initial selection of PS3 games for play on PS4, Vita, and Vita TV. IGN reports on Sony’s roundtable interview at Tokyo Game Show, where Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida announced the service will debut in North …