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The Oculus Rift’s price advantage over rival HTC Vive has just taken a big hit. As spotted by Engadget, the upcoming Oculus Touch controllers – which are Oculus’s equivalent to the controllers included with the HTC Vive at launch – have been given a whopping 190 RRP in the UK. …
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Read about Dishonored 2, Watch Dogs 2 and Mafia III in this week’s free MCV
This week, MCV speaks to VP of PR and marketing Pete Hines about Bethesda being the world’s fastest growing triple-A publisher and how it intends to maintain this status with the release of Dishonored 2. Meanwhile, Ubisoft’s senior producer Dominic Guay discusses Watch Dogs and how the publisher wants it …
Read More »PlayFusion: ‘Lightseekers is the first real toys-to-life innovation in years’
Former Jagex boss Mark Gerhard explains how his new studio is going to advance a troubled but technologically promising market
Read More »Sainsbury’s kills its streaming and digital services
UK supermarket Sainsbury’s has called time on its Entertainment on Demand streaming and digital retail service. Over the last four years we have enjoyed providing our customers with eBooks, MP3 music, digital magazines, and movies and TV on demand,” it said. We have made some great progress and learnt a …
Read More »Minecraft stars in new Xbox One S bundle
Yet another Xbox One S bundle has been confirmed for UK retail. The Xbox One S Minecraft Favourites Bundle will arrive on October 11th in the UK, priced at 249. It offers a download code for the Xbox edition of Minecraft, along with plenty of extras – 230 character skins, …
Read More »Amazon trims PS4 Slim and Xbox One S to £224
Could another Christmas hardware price war be in the offing? Sony’s now available slimmed down 500GB PS4 has an RRP of 259. Microsoft’s 500GB Xbox One S, meanwhile, has an RRP of 249. Both, however, can already be had for a lot less than that. As spotted by Videogamer, both …
Read More »Get real: How to win over publishers with an unproven franchise
Kiss’ Darryl Still discusses how to manage expectations for a new IP
Read More »BioShock: The Collection tops UK chart, PES 2017 debuts at No.2
2K Games had a big week at UK physical retail last week with two brand new titles in the Top 10. BioShock: The Collection – a compilation of the original three BioShock games for PS4 and Xbox One – debuted at No.1 in the UK charts. Meanwhile the publisher’s basketball …
Read More »Oculus’ Rubin on the Rift’s first year and its High Street launch
2016 has witnessed VR become a reality. Already this year, the consumer versions of Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR have been priced, with the former pair made available to consumers directly via their websites. Now the Oculus Rift is finally coming to UK retail on September 20th following …
Read More »We speak to PlayStation, Oculus, Remedy and CCP in this week’s MCV
In this week’s edition of MCV, we talk to PlayStation’s global sales and marketing boss Jim Ryan about the firm’s two new consoles. Ryan explains the strategy behind the new slimmer version of the PS4, as well as its brand new and powerful PlayStation 4 Pro. Meanwhile Oculus’ head of …
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