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A US analyst has predicted that Sony could eventually grow to control virtually the entire console market. "Sony has the potential to make the game console market its exclusive territory,” Bank of America/Merrill Lynch analyst Eiichi Katayama told The Wall Street Journal in a report claiming that the company’s current …
Read More »Successfully Kickstarted sword fighting game Clang is scrapped
Sword fighting game Clang will now not be released, despite being successfully Kickstarted in 2012. Creator Neal Stephenson hit the pause button” on development a year ago, despite the fact the game had long passed its $500k Kickstarter goal, raising $526,125. Now the project has been cancelled outright. Last year, …
Read More »Destiny attracts biggest Twitch launch audience of 2014
More people have watched streaming Destiny footage on Twitch in 2014 than any other new game launch. It was viewed nearly 20m times in its first week, with 5m unique viewers consuming nearly 240m minutes of gameplay. Our community has always blown us away with their desire to share, entertain, …
Read More »Phones4u staff warned that they may not get full wages
Staff at UK retailer Phones 4u have been told that their wages are likely to be curtailed as hope for the troubled company begins to fade. The Independent reports that an internal document sent to the chain’s 5,596 staff says that while they will still be paid as administrators PwC …
Read More »Nvidia announces GeForce GTX 980 and GTX 970
As expected, two new high-end PC graphics cards have been unveiled by Nvidia. Called the GTX 980 and GTX 970, both cards offer improved TDP efficiency but still offer the sort of graphical clout that puts the PS4 and Xbox One to shame. The GTX 980 will retail at around …
Read More »GDC faced bomb threat for granting Anita Sarkeesian an award
The organisers of GDC have revealed that it received a number of bomb threats earlier this year over its decision to hand the Ambassador Award to Anita Sarkeesian. The Tropes vs Women creator won the gong in March for helping the game industry advance to a better place” and for …
Read More »Deadly Premonition creator’s next game D4 hits Xbox One tomorrow
D4, the next game from Hidetaka ‘Swery65′ Suehiro, will be released on Xbox One tomorrow. The episodic game is a cel-shaded action adventure that was originally designed to use the Kinect, relying on a user’s voice and gestures. Interestingly, however, Microsoft has now said it can instead be played using …
Read More »Need for Speed Rivals: Complete Edition to fill EA’s 2014 racing void
EA has announced plans to release Need for Speed Rivals: Complete Edition next month. The game will be released on PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360 and PC on October 24th and in America on October 21st. It’s the first time a Need for Speed title has had a release …
Read More »VIDEO: Deep Down’s past and future worlds revealed
Capcom’s free-to-play PS4 RPG Deep Down has been detailed in a new video at the Tokyo Game Show. It shows the title’s two worlds – its future setting in 2094 and its gothic 1494 locale that players visit via some sort of Assassin’s Creed style Animus device. Note that while …
Read More »VIDEO: Here’s the PES 2015 demo in action
PES 2015 is still some way off, but a new video shows a full match in action and gives a taste of what’s the come. Courtesy of CVG, it shows a match between Bayern Munich and Barcelona and shows the changes implemented in the shooting and dribbling systems. The footage …
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