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Change the price man, $20 is too much. $15 is perfect for this game.” That indie games should by default be ‘cheap’ is a belief that a lot of smaller studios have to contend with. And one developer has chosen to explain precisely why 14.99 is fair price for its …
Read More »Hitman beta open for PlayStation Plus subscribers next week
An open beta for Square Enix’s next Hitman game will be released for some PS4 owners next week. Square Enix has said that PlayStation Plus subscribers will be able to download the beta on March 4th. Until now it has only been available to those who have pre-ordered the game. …
Read More »Archived Twitch streams to start preserving chat
Streaming service Twitch has announced plans to preserve a video’s chat as part of its archive. Which sounds horrific, although to be fair while the chat on more popular streams is often akin to actual hell on earth, smaller streams can often be more productive and interactive. And dare we …
Read More »Marvelous delays Vita release Uppers due to low pre-orders
Japanese developer Marvelous has postponed the release of an upcoming Vita game because it is concerned there is not enough interest to make it financially viable. Siliconera reports that Uppers was due for release on April 21st, but producer Kenichiro Takaki has confirmed that pre-orders were so low the company …
Read More »Activision seals King acquisition, creating ‘the largest game network in the world’
The $5.9bn deal that sees Activision take ownership of Candy Crush creator King has been completed. The acquisition was first unveiled back in November. King CEO Riccardo Zacconi, CCO Sebastian Knutsson and COO Stephane Kurgan remain in place, with the company continuing to operate as an independent unit of Activision …
Read More »A sub-$500 PlayStation VR will ‘dominate’, analyst claims
The announcement of an $800 RRP for HTC’s Vive SteamVR headset has set the stage for Sony to rule the VR market. That’s the opinion of analyst Michael Pachter, who argues that price will always be the determining factor. Wow, Vive priced at $800. This sets Oculus up to win …
Read More »Bill Gates sides with FBI in Apple hack debate
Former Microsoft boss Bill Gates has potentially isolated himself from his tech contemporaries by saying that Apple should abide by a government ruling forcing it to share encrypted data. This is a specific case where the government is asking for access to information. They are not asking for some general …
Read More »Day one digital Fallout 4 sales outpaced physical
Bethesda has offered another glimpse into the secretive world of digital console game sales. Speaking to Game Informer, Bethesda producer Todd Howard has revealed that RPG hit Fallout 4 sold more digitally on day one that it did physically. To put that into perspective, while the publisher never announced any …
Read More »Microsoft vows that HoloLens will not suffer Kinect’s fate
A full version of HoloLens will launch ‘when the world is ready’, to avoid the fate suffered by Kinect, Microsoft has said. If a consumer bought it today, they would have 12 things to do with it,” creator Alex Kipmanexplained (viaRecode). And they would say: ‘Cool, I bought a $3,000 …
Read More »PES’s Euro 2016 DLC lacks some licensed teams
Konami’s upcoming Euro 2016 DLC for PES 2016 will not feature a full licensed roster of teams. 24 teams feature in the tournament, but only 15 of them will be officially licensed in the expansion. Missing out are Ireland, Russia, Switzerland, Romania, Sweden, Poland, Austria, Belgium and Hungary. The licensed …
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