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Mario made a surprise appearance in the closing ceremony for the Rio Olympics last night. Tokyo will be the event’s host in 2020, and as is traditional the next host nation made an appearance at the colourful close. Viewers were greeted with a short showing Mario using a device to …
Read More »PS4 Slim pictures leaked
UPDATE:Eurogamerhas confirmed that the device is real (by visiting the home of the buyer, no less). ORIGINAL STORY: It looks like Sony has two new consoles in the works. The origins of this leak are certainly bizarre to say the least, but if true – and it sounds as if …
Read More »Xbox One beats PS4 in US in July, but 3DS is the overall monthly champ
For the first time since October 2015, Xbox One has beat PS4 in the monthly US sales race. This comes on the back of some heavy discounting to the console as Microsoft cleared stock ahead of the launch of the Xbox One S earlier this month. Sales of the machine …
Read More »Destiny content faces further Xbox One lockout
PlayStation-exclusive content that had been expected to arrive on Xbox One this autumn will now not hit the console until autumn 2017 at the earliest. Polygon reports that a range of exclusive PlayStation content that arrived alongside last year’s Destiny: The Taken King had previously been marked down as being …
Read More »Facebook and Unity partner to build new PC gaming platform
Fallen browser gaming giant Facebook wants back into the gaming market. For a brief period Facebook’s casual gaming aspirations looked to be a new dawn for mass-market gaming, but the shift to mobile and an increased emphasis on casual, bite-sized gaming in the traditional market eroded the social network’s impact. …
Read More »Below delayed again, studio ‘going dark’ to finish project
Indie title Below is now without a release date. The game was revealed way back in 2013 as part of Microsoft’s E3 2013 Xbox One showcase. However, developer Capy has now said that it doesn’t have a planned release date and now plans to retreat from the limelight to get …
Read More »Ubisoft dates three VR titles
October will kick off Ubisoft’s commercial entry into the virtual reality market. Ubisoft Montreal’s Eagle Flight, which as the name suggests allows players to soar like an eagle (over Paris) will debut on Oculus Rift on October 18th. A PlayStation VR version will follow on November 8th, while an HTC …
Read More »AMD reveals Zen, wants back into CPU race
Intel’s run of almost uninterrupted reign at the top of the PC processor market could be in for a serious challenge. After years languishing at the budget end of the sector with its multicore FX CPU lineup, Engadget reports that AMD has lifted the lid on its long-awaited next generation …
Read More »Microsoft sees a future without console generations
Xbox One and PS4 will be the last of their kind, Xbox’s US marketing boss Aaron Greenberg has predicted. Next year’s arrival of the iterative Xbox Scorpio and PS4 Neo upgrades – as well as Microsoft’s growing unification of the Xbox and Windows space – all point to a shift …
Read More »Xbox VR games likely to be Scorpio exclusive
Next year’s arrival of Xbox Scorpio won’t quite be the level playing field some had hoped for, at least when it comes to VR. Microsoft in its reveal of the new machine committed to cross-platform compatibility for both Xbox One and Xbox Scorpio for new titles. However, the extra processing …
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