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Microsoft’s considerable investment in cloud computing will power a new breed of console games. That’s not the message coming from Microsoft itself but instead the thoughts of Respawn Entertainment, the team behind Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC outing Titanfall. They built this powerful system to let us create all …

Former Sony exec leaves to pursue other opportunities in mobile and social gaming

Zynga’s vice president of partner publishing Rob Dyer has left the troubled casual gaming firm. The former third party boss joined Zynga from Sony Computer Entertainment America where he was senior vice president of public relations. He has previously served as president of both Eidos and Crystal Dynamics. The official …

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A few weeks ago, I had the rare opportunity to experience Grand Theft Auto 5 – quite easily the biggest game release of the year – in action. The demo lasted about 40 minutes and included a lot of what we’ve loved and come to expect from GTA games, but …

New office to focus on development of original IP

Free-to-play specialist Wargaming is delighted to be moving to Xbox – although it’s having to bite its tongue in the process. Wargaming’s CEO Victor Kislyi has confessed that he’s uneasy about certain elements of Microsoft’s ecosystem but says that he’ll just have to tolerate” it. "With Microsoft, unfortunately it’s not …

Sony has confirmed that the PlayStation 4 will launch in India this year alongside Europe. PlayStation India country manager toldIVGthat the console would arrive in India at most a month after European release, but would still make it here in this calendar year, perhaps indicating the heavily rumoured November release …

Player hosted-servers 'holding back online gaming', says Titanfall engineer

"Why haven’t you spoken to us? What are you doing? We want to make Battlefront." That was the reaction from Swedish developer DICE when it discovered that EA was in talks with Disney regarding the Star Wars video game right. The DICE guys Karl Magnus Troedsson and Patrick Bach were …