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Square Enix title Deus Ex: Human Revolution was the second best selling game in the UK in August. And it achieved this despite only being on sale for 48 hours of UKIE Gfk Chart-Track’s August tracking period (July 31st – August 27th). The only title able to better it was …

A visual guide to the inventive stereoscopic 3D hardware

I have a right hand and a left hand. For the purposes of this article, my right hand shall be called mAStaK1lla. He represents the gamer and the consumer in me. I like great deals on new titles and am delighted when games turn up early. For the sake of …

Futuristic head-mounted display to launch in Japan

PlayStation 3 platform holder Sony will launch a 3D-enabled head-mounted display in Japan this November. It was first shown off to the public at CES earlier this year. The device incorporates two 720p OLED screens that give the user the impression of viewing a colossal image and also incorporates 5.1 …

Both cloud gaming firms now competing for web-embed agreements

Paris headquartered mobile games publisher Gameloft is launching a hopeful new revenue model for the Android operating system. The app publisher has begun the Gameloft Club, a subscription model being test-run in the UK. For a rolling cost of 99p each week, users will be able to select a new …

New project, Adventure World, could stimulate investor craze

HP said that the tech giant would manufacture another batch of WebOS powered TouchPad tablets. "Despite announcing an end to manufacturing WebOS hardware, we have decided to produce one last run of TouchPads to meet unfulfilled demand," announced HP PR man Mark Budgell on theHP Next Bench Blog. The world’s …

Former Sony Liverpool developer Andy Gahan continues his quest to run his own micro studio