Nintendo president Saturo Iwata has described sales of the Wii U as steady”. The company, however, has still not revealed any concrete sales numbers, although neither has it retracted its initial target of 5.5m Wii U unit sales by the end of March. So far we know that the console …
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Nvidia’s Project Shield – plays Android games and streams PC titles from Steam
The Android console sector just got serious with the announcement of a new competitor from PC component juggernaut Nvidia. Project Shield will run both Android AND PC games. It’s compatible with all Google Play titles but will also stream ‘full’ PC games from any NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 (or higher) …
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I vividly remember the first time I experienced PS2. I’d just returned from a six-month stint in Sri Lanka where I had been doing voluntary work. While the urban squalor of Colombo and the isolation of the Sri Lankan jungle were great for many things, keeping abreast of development in …
Read More »The end of era – Sony has produced its last ever PS2
Sony has confirmed that it has ceased all production of the mighty PlayStation 2. It was reported last week that the company had called time on its Japanese production of the console, but Sony has now confirmed to The Guardian that all PS2 production worldwide has been wound down. The …
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Valve appears to have made plans to reveal its custom PC-console this year. According to a report on German site Golem (via PC Gamer), Valve engineer Ben Krasnow spoke on the upcoming hardware at the EHSM 2012 conference in Berlin, how it runs on Linux, and how a full reveal …
Read More »The Walking Dead sells 8.5m episodes, mobile best-performing platform
Telltale Games CEO Dan Connors has revealed the studio’s episodic adventure hit The Walking Dead wrapped up the last two months of 2012 with its biggest sales push yet. Connors told the Wall Street Journal that the developing series has sold 8.5m episodes since launching last year. November and December …
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[Guest post] Chris Rowe: Co-Dev Without the Culture Clash
AAA development used to have rough predictability. You staffed up, you shipped, you staffed down, and you kept rolling. It wasn’t always stable, but teams could stay together long enough to build momentum.
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