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Futuresource Consulting has predicted that PS4 will enjoy a decent sales advantage over Xbox One over the next five years. It reckons that PS4 will have sold 36m units by 2018 with Xbox One having shifted just 30m units – although it expects both machines to fall short of their …

Al character Cortana from the Halo series is to lend itself to a new Siri-rivalling tech from Microsoft. That’s according to ZDnet, which has collated a number of hints and leaks from across the internet to arrive at the claim. The tech can apparently learn and adapt, relying on machine-learning …

The increasing importance of tracking digital sales has been highlighted once again by multiplayer heist shooter Payday 2. Its developer Starbreeze told investors last night, via a note translated by Eurogamer, that its game has to date sold a total of 1.58m copies. Perhaps more interestingly, however, it added that …

Former GM Alan Patmore admits to stealing trade secrets from social game maker

Thousands of titles vanish from Microsoft's storefront

$8 billion stock sale cut ties with Vivendi, but another shareholder claims unjust enrichment

BioWare co-founder to tackle best practices in leadership

Develop checks in on the Leamington Spa dev cluster and its surrounding neighbours

There’s reason to be excited ahead of next week’s Grand Theft Auto V launch. GfK Chart-Track has told MCV that GTA is the fourth biggest revenue-generating brand in the UK games industry. The stat tracker revealed a number of GTA facts ahead of the blockbuster arrival of GTA V. The …

More than 1,000 UK stores will be open from midnight for the launch of Grand Theft Auto V. Retailers are out in force for what is tipped to be the biggest release of the year, with chains, indies and supermarkets reporting record pre-order figures. Midnight launches will take place from …