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PC gamers complaining about the lack of a specific function in the PC version of Far Cry 4 have been revealed to be pirates. A number of complainants took to the likes of Reddit and Twitter to complain the Ubisoft’s game lacked a FOV (field of view) slider – this …
Read More »Ubisoft says in-game crowd sizes not linked to Assassin’s Creed: Unity performance problems
A third patch that Ubisoft hopes will address some of the technical criticism aimed at Assassin’s Creed: Unity is on the way. In an unusually frank post the publisher has said that the vast numbers of NPCs (non-playable characters) on-screen at any one time is not connected to the game’s …
Read More »PS4 must broaden to capture casual audience
PlayStation’s UK boss Fergal Gara has said that the next stage in PS4’s development should see the hardware broaden its audience to attract amore casual crowd. We want to see in the next year or two is a bigger mass market play, shall we say,” Gara told Redbull.com. So in …
Read More »Sony suggests PS4 sales outnumber Xbox One by 2-to-1
The president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America has suggested that PS4 has sold around double the number of Xbox One units shifted worldwide. When asked by Gamesbeat whether PS4 has about a two-to-one advantage over Xbox One”, Shawn Layden replied: The math seems to look like that. It’s …
Read More »EA exec says Xbox One is ‘catching up quickly’ with PS4
The rate at which Xbox One is narrowing its sales gap behind PS4 is accelerating. That’s according to EA CFO Blake Jorgensen, who Gamasutra reports told an audience at the UBS Global Technology Conference that: "Clearly Sony has jumped out to a lead with a great console and I think …
Read More »GTA V update causing headache for some PS4 players
There’s yet more technical bad news afoot for Sony’s PS4. Eurogamer reports that an increasing number of Grand Theft Auto V owners are claiming to have encountered problems when trying to download the game’s 1.14GB day one patch. Some say they are unable to get the patch to download at …
Read More »Former French minister slams Assassin’s Creed: Unity’s depiction of French Revolution
A former minister for the French Socialist Party has criticised the depiction of key figures in the French Revolution in Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed: Unity. "[The game] presents an image of hatred of the Revolution, hatred of the people, hatred of the republic which is rampant in today’s far-right,” Jean-Luc Mlenchon …
Read More »Human Element ditches free-to-play, losing publishing partner in the process
Indie studio Robotoki’s upcoming title Human Element has decided to ditch free-to-play in favour of becoming a premium product. Gamasutra reports that, as a result, the game will no longer be published by Nexon. "Nexon and Robotoki have come to a mutual decision to end their publishing agreement for the …
Read More »Halo: Master Chief Collection matchmaking fix delayed as Spencer apologises for problems
A patch designed to help alleviate the ongoing online problems faced by Halo: The Master Chief Collection will not arrive tomorrow as planned. The game has since release battled with issues preventing players successfully finding matches online – issues that developer 343 has yet to fully resolve. This week’s content …
Read More »Elite: Dangerous’ online u-turn draws criticism from players
The decision to strip the offline mode from upcoming space shooter Elite: Dangerous has gone down like a lead balloon. Frontier boss David Braben earlier this week revealed the decision to make the game online-only, saying: A fully offline experience would be unacceptably limited and static compared to the dynamic, …
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