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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has said that the early days of Hololens will not be focused on the handset’s gaming credentials. For sure in the first version, it’s going to be more about developers and enterprise scenarios,” he told ZDnet. Gaming will always be a scenario and there will be …
Read More »VIDEO: N++ gets an actual release date
Having been announced in 2013, developer Metanet has finally confirmed a release date for N++. The platformer was announced at Gamescom in 2013 and is a sequel to 2008 Xbox 360, DS and PSP game N+. It will be released for PS4 on July 28th. I have been waiting for …
Read More »Boys are tired of gaming’s over-sexualised women, too
A new study has found that the majority of teenage boys in the US believe that games unfairly treat women as sex objects. A Time study by Rosalind Wiseman asked US school boys whether they believed female characters are treated too often as sex objects” in video games. 47 per …
Read More »Reddit chief engineer Bethanye Blount quits
Does Reddit have a gender discrimination problem that it needs to address?” That’s the question being posed to Reddit after news that chief engineer Bethanye Blount has quit the company after just two months in the job and just days after CEO Ellen Pao also departed. Pao had endured months …
Read More »Mozilla’s Firefox now blocks Flash by default
Firefox developer Mozilla has announced that the latest version of the browser will block Flash by default. The news comes after a seemingly never-ending string of security concerns about the once popular software, the most recent of which involved the exposure of a major vulnerability detailed in 400GB worth of …
Read More »Satellite Reign is leaving Early Access next month
The spiritual successor to Syndicate is on target for a full release in August. The game was successfully funded on Kickstarter in the summer of 2013 and then hit Steam Early Access late last year. It will be released in full on August 28th. We’re pleased to announce that Satellite …
Read More »Prototype bundle makes shock appearance on Xbox One
Surprise! Activision has with no fanfare or hype released a bundle of both Prototype games on Xbox One. Both Prototype and Prototype 2 are available to download from Xbox Live now, priced at 39.99. There’s no word yet on any potential differences compared to the original releases bar the inclusion …
Read More »O2 customers can get free Skylanders from GAME
A Skylanders figure triple-pack is now available for free for O2 customers. GAME has teamed up with the company to give away the goodies to those with the O2 Priority app. Users can use the app to generate a code that will net them the figures from any GAME store. …
Read More »Reddit CEO Ellen Pao resigns
Ellen Pao is no longer the CEO of Reddit. The news of her departure follows recent disruption across the site as moderators rebelled against what they saw as the unfair sacking of its AMA coordinator. Pao’s apology was seemingly not enough to quall the site’s fury. Ellen Pao resigned from …
Read More »Oculus is funding development of over 20 VR games
Virtual reality company Oculus is funding development of about two dozen” virtual reality games via its Oculus Studios program. We have a pretty big investment into Oculus Studios’ triple-A, high production value games,” Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe told Gamasutra. Oculus VR is a gaming-built, owned and operated company. We’re developers …
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