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Online title LEGO Minifigures Online is being ported to Amazon’s Fire TV and Fire HDX tablets. Funcom’s game is already available on PC and has versions in the works for iOS and Android tablets. In-game content is unlocked via codes included in series 12 of LEGO’s physical Minifigure packs. Fire …
Read More »Amazon unveils a new Chromecast rival – the Fire TV Stick
The streaming content market has yet another hardware contender – the Amazon Fire TV Stick. The device is a direct rival to Google’s Chromecast. The stick is designed to be plugged into a TV’s HDMI port, allowing for direct streaming of digital content. It houses a dual-core processor and in-built …
Read More »Xbox’s Spencer plays down desire for Minecraft 2
Servicing the needs of the existing Minecraft community is a far bigger priority than getting a Minecraft sequel to market. That’s according to Xbox boss Phil Spencer, who reminded IGN (via Polygon) that for the time being the deal has not been closed and Mojang is free to do with …
Read More »Sony assures fans over disappearing SingStar purchases
Users of the freshly released SingStar: Ultimate Party have seen purchased songs vanish from their libraries. The latest iteration of the karaoke title was released on PS3 and PS4 last Friday but a flood of complaints on the game’s Facebook page say that tracks purchased for previous versions of the …
Read More »Microsoft cuts US Xbox One price for Christmas
Xbox One will from November 2nd be $50 cheaper in the US. Microsoft has announced that it is cutting $50 from all Xbox One hardware SKUs from November 2nd until January 3rd. This means the white Sunset Overdrive bundle will cost $349, the Assassin’s Creed: Unity bundle $349 (or $449 …
Read More »Evolution Studios says it still has ‘more work’ to do to fix Driveclub
The crucial Christmas buying period is upon us, and PS4’s flagship title continues to be arrested by severe technical problems. Developer Evolution continues to rollout what it describes as improvements and fixes, but gamers claim that key elements of its functionality remain broken. The studio itself admits that it still …
Read More »League of Legends tops the global MMO revenue tables as F2P dominates subscriptions
Look, we don’t know if it’s an MMO or a MOBA, so don’t shout at us. That aside, however, SuperData research has named League of Legends as the world’s biggest MMO (or digital online game, as we’d probably label it) with year-to-date revenues of $946m for 2014, claiming 11.9 per …
Read More »Asda facing mass legal action over gender pay discrepancies
Walmart-owned Supermarket chain Asda is being sued over alleged discrepancies between the salaries it pays to male and female workers. The BBC reports that several female employees in Asda’s distribution warehouses have raised the action, with over 10,000 staff having expressed an interest in joining the case. In some cases …
Read More »Microsoft branding replaces Nokia on high-end smartphones
The Nokia Lumia is dead and has been replaced with the Microsoft Lumia. As revealed earlier this year, Microsoft is phasing out the Nokia branding on its Lumia phones in favour of using its own branding. And now this process has begun. We are looking forward to unveiling a Microsoft …
Read More »Google search downranking dents major torrent site traffic
A new search algorithm implemented by Google last week has seen the traffic on some major torrent sites more than halve. TorrentFreak reports that sites that have received high numbers of copyright takedown requests have now been demoted in Google’s search results. The result is that a number of the …
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