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The need for virtual reality devs to get as much bang for your buck out of the limited processing capacity available harks back to the early days of coding. That’s according to Futuretown co-founder and CTO Justin Liebregts, who told Develop: A large portion of the engineering and art issues …
Read More »Time called on Tekken X Street Fighter development
After six years of insisting the game is on the way, Bandai Namco has now said that Tekken X Street Fighter is no longer in active development. "When we develop fighting games, we try to keep the core community in mind as well as the wider audience that wants to …
Read More »Players to get 13 free Hearthstone Whispers of the Old Gods packs
Blizzard has announced plans to give players over 65 free cards upon the release of next week’s expansion Whispers of the Old Gods. All players will get three free packs for simply logging on following the expansion’s release. The developer has now revealed that a further five packs will be …
Read More »Kaplan: Blizzard failed horrifically with scrapped MMO Titan
Blizzard designer Jeff Kaplan has revealed how the cancellation of MMO Titan has provided huge motivation for the studio. Titan was abandoned in 2014 after seven years in development. CEO Mike Morhaime said simply that the team weren’t able to find the fun” in the title. "You had a really …
Read More »Xbox One unit sales are up as Xbox Live usage climbs
Microsoft is pretty coy about the sales performance of the Xbox One nowadays, but it looks as if the console has grown sales year-on-year. Xbox One hardware unit sales were up year-on-year for the nine months ending March 31st 2016, although hardware revenues were down 26 per cent – a …
Read More »From Software is investigating alleged unfair Dark Souls 3 bans
A number of players claim to have been wrongly banned from the online component of Dark Souls 3. From Software has since the days of the original Dark Souls struggled with policing the series’ community. Historically players who are deemed to have cheated in any way are pooled off into …
Read More »AMD again hints at three upcoming new console launches
PS4 Neo? Check. Nintendo NX? Check. Xbox Two? Maybe. Chip manufacturer AMD has dropped the second hint in as many weeks that all three platform holders are very much gearing up for new hardware launches. Ars Technica reports that in an earnings call the company cited three semi-custom system-on-chip (SOC) …
Read More »Shuhei Yoshida isn’t sure if there will be a PS5
Oddworld Inhabitants’ co-founder Lorne Lanning has said that Sony Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida told him that a PS5 is in no way certain? The reason? That consoles need to embrace a more iterative hardware update model, which all signs suggest will kick off with the PS4 Neo. Yes,” Lanning told …
Read More »Amazon locks video game purchases behind Prime paywall
Retailer Amazon has decided that it will only sell certain games to members of Amazon Prime. As reported by Videogamer, a handful of titles have been spotted so far that carry the banner ‘exclusively for Prime members’. The info pop-up confirms that: This item, sold by Amazon, is currently reserved …
Read More »Box Plus Network wants more gaming shows on its channels
4Music, The Box and Kerrang TV owner The Box Plus Network wants to increase the amount of video games content shown on its networks. Viewers of these channels have become accustomed to special features on movies, but the company hopes that games can claim an increasingly large share. The network …
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