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Like any new sector, virtual reality faces a number of challenges as it fights for its place in the market – and short-term profit is certainly one of them. While hype for the technology is through the roof, one thing that will likely not be is software sales. With headsets …
Read More »Gran Turismo Sport gets release date; beta scrapped
There will be a Gran Turismo game on PS4 this year. Polyphony Digital CEO Kazunori Yamauchi has said that Gran Turismo Sport will be released on November 18th, promising plenty of innovations. The last time we saw the series was Gran Turismo 6, which hit PS3 after the release of …
Read More »Minecraft price increases come into effect next week
The good news is that there are probably not that many people left who haven’t already bought the game. With sales in excess of 70m units, Minecraft is one of the world’s biggest games. But if you’re yet to grab yourself a copy, you might want to do so before …
Read More »Destiny 2 has been ‘rebooted’, report claims
The director of The Taken King has been put in charge of Destiny 2 development. That’s according to Kotaku, whose track record on Destiny leaks is top notch. Earlier this year it revealed that Destiny 2 had been pushed back to 2017 – news that was officially confirmed a few …
Read More »Eastern gamers far more critical of Nioh difficulty than those in the West
Team Ninja has published the results of a survey taken by those who recently tried the first playable alpha of upcoming PS4 title Nioh. The game has, like so many others, followed the lead of Dark Souls, not least of which when it comes to difficulty. Surprisingly, Asian gamers expressed …
Read More »Rockstar’s PS2 classics on PS4 have been a success
Take-Two has said that Rockstar is currently the top publisher of digital PS2 classics on the PS4 store. The publisher has described its selection of titles as a tremendous success”, citing Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Bully in particular. Take-Two’s overall digital revenues grew 36 per cent year-on-year to …
Read More »Palestinian dev told to remove app from App Store games category
A Palestinian game developer has been told by Apple that his game must be removed from the game category on the iOS App Store as it has been deemed to be inappropriate”. Gamasutra reports that Liyla and The Shadows of War creator Rasheed Abueideh revealed the news on Twitter, saying …
Read More »Kojima used world tour to hunt down a game engine
If there’s one thing Hideo Kojima is not know for it’s delivering games quickly – and that’s something he wants to change for his first solo release. The Metal Gear Solid creator embarked on a world tour earlier this year, and now IGN reports that he has said at the …
Read More »Health and medical devices added to Nintendo’s official charter
Satoru Iwata’s Quality of Life initiative may yet live on. Nintendo said in February that the company’s only officially revealed QOL device, a sleep monitor, had been ditched. This seemed to compound existing rumours that the company was planning to ditch QOL altogether, with enthusiasm for the idea believed to …
Read More »Google gets serious about VR with Daydream
There’s a new major player in the virtual reality market. Google last night lifted the lid on its new Daydream platform, which takes what it began with Google Cardboard and brings it to a new higher tech territory. VR features are to be embedded directly into the Android OS itself, …
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