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Microsoft may be aiming high with its RRP for Xbox One in China. Kotaku reports that Zol.com claims that Microsoft has priced the machine at Y4,999 – that translates to about 470/$800. Note that while that represents only a 120/35 per cent mark-up on the UK price, it’s almost double …
Read More »Toulouse returns to Microsoft as Gears of War community chief
Former Xbox Live policy and enforcement director Stephen Toulouse has rejoined Microsoft. His new role is as the director of community engagement for Gears of War, pointing to a stepping up of activity for the Xbox IP in the near future. Toulouse quit Microsoft in February 2012, and has since …
Read More »YouTube debuts 60 frames per second videos with new Battlefield: Hardline short
Content creators now have the option of uploading video at 60fps to YouTube. For those to whom such things mean nothing, here’s an explanation: standard YouTube videos run at 24fps – as in, there are 24 individuals images shown every second – which is the same as standard DVD or …
Read More »Dinklage’s Destiny dialogue has been improved, Bungie claims
Bungie says that Peter Dinklage’s voice performance in the Destiny alpha is being revised for the game’s actual release. Dinklage, best known for playing Tyrion Lannister in HBO’s Game of Thrones series, has been criticised for what is being called a lacklustre and phoned-in” voiceover performance for AI companion Ghost …
Read More »Shock! Gran Turismo 7 looking unlikely for 2014
At one stage Polyphony Digital said Gran Turismo 7 could be released in 2014. What are the chances of that happening, do you think? If your answer was incredibly slim” or virtually none” then congratulations! You’re not daft and you’re quite right. "We are working on the title," Gran Turismo …
Read More »Sniper Elite 3 buyers left empty handed after key scam
A batch of stolen and subsequently re-sold Steam keys has left potentially hundreds of Sniper Elite 3 buyers without a copy of the game. Affected users are being offered free access to the game’s ‘Target Hitler’ DLC but are being advised to contact the retailer form whom they purchased the …
Read More »Steam breaks 8m concurrent users barrier
The latest Steam Sale has helped Valve’s digital games service hit a brand new milestone. As spotted by NeoGaf, on Sunday evening there were over 8m concurrent users of the service. Specifically, as of midnight UK time there were 8,020,428 people on the service. That beats the 7m+ record set …
Read More »Tablets overtake 3DS as most popular children’s gaming device in UK
The era of portable consoles may be drawing to a close. New data from Futuresource Consulting says that tablets have for the first time overtaken Nintendo’s 3DS as the most popular personal games device owned by UK children. Specifically, 44 per cent of UK children between the ages of three …
Read More »Nvidia’s Tegra K1 claims to better 360 and PS3 visuals on tablets
It’s a claim we’ve heard before, but the video below suggests that Nvidia has every right to boast. A new Unreal Engine 4 demo powered by Nvidia’s Tegra K1 chip certainly looks to increase the visual bar for what’s possible on tablets and assorted hardware running the new Android L …
Read More »Microsoft reiterates that Family Sharing could return to Xbox One
Some of the digital functionality stripped from Xbox One in the weeks after E3 2013 is currently scheduled to make a return. "We looked at the digital features that we had talked about last year and as a gamer there were a lot of those features that I think really …
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