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The ever-decreasing cost of Xbox One consoles has caused Microsoft’s gaming revenue to fall by 3 per cent year-on-year, the company revealed in its Fiscal Q2 2017 report. Xbox revenue reached $3.595bn in Microsoft’s fiscal Q2 2017 report, with the company stating that lower Xbox console pricing was the main …
Read More »Ginx announces new eSports focused series of The First Hour
Ginx eSports TV has announced that it will be making another series of The First Hour, a show that takes a look at the first hour of gameplay from a game. The new series will be made up of 24 episodes, each an hour long, and will see hosts Adam …
Read More »New Dota 2 in game event give players a chance to earn a new courier
The first special Dota 2 event in quite some time has gone live and give players a chance to win a new Baby Roshan courier. The Dark Moon event adds a new game mode that sees a team of five players try to fend off waves of increasingly hard enemies, …
Read More »Further layoffs at GSN Games
15-20 staff throughout the company hit with redundancy in restructuring
Read More »Hideo Kojima talks about media convergence and oversexualised characters
In an interview with BBC newsbeat at his new studio
Read More »Versus Evil announces first charity streaming event
US indie games publisher Versus Evil has announced its very first charity streaming event. Dubbed the Versus Evil Charity Clash, streamers will be representing one of four main charities and will go head to head with other players in Tim Conkling’s upcoming turn-based strategy game, Antihero. The event will take …
Read More »US digital market grew 16% year-on-year in December 2016
The US digital console market grew 16 per cent year-on-year in December 2016, compared with a 16 per cent drop year-on-year at US retail during the same period. That’s according to the latest report from data research firm SuperData. December was the worst month in two decades for the US console …
Read More »Square Enix and Marvel join forces for new multi-game partnership
Square Enix and Marvel have announced a new multi-game partnership that will kick off with a project surrounding The Avengers. Both companies announced the partnership on social media this afternoon, releasing a teaser trailer (below) along with the hash-tag #Reassemble. The multi-year, multi-game licensing agreement will see games being developed …
Read More »Microsoft commits to big cloud computing initative
Looking to train 500,000 people to be cloud computer experts in the UK by 2020.
Read More »Dirt 4 release date set for June 9th
Dirt 4 is coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC on June 9th, Codemasters and Koch Media have confirmed. Building on the success of last year’s Dirt Rally, Codemasters says Dirt 4 will take its off-road racer to the next level this summer. White knuckle truck and buggy racing …
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