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A Japanese news channel is claiming that Sony is lining up a 7bn acquisition of a Renesas Electronics semiconductor plant. This is of note because the site currently produces the DRAM chips found in Nintendo’s Wii U. DualShockers reports that Sony is prepared to invest a further 20bn into the …
Read More »Apple posts record iPhone and iPad sales, but is still outpaced by Samsung
51m iPhones and 26m iPads were sold by Apple in Q4 2013. Both numbers are record-breaking for the firm, which in the same period a year before sold 47.8m iPhones and 22.9m iPads. The sales led to revenue of $57.6bn and net profit of $13.1bn – which was flat –for …
Read More »Amazon to launch console this year – report
A games-focused under-the-TV entertainment system will be launched by Amazon in 2014, a new report has claimed. VG247 claims to have word from multiple sources” that a $300 machine will be launched this year that offers the streaming and download of games, music, movies and TV content”. It will run …
Read More »Cliffy B: Gears of War ‘couldn’t be in better hands’
Former Epic developer and Gears of War designer Cliff Bleszinski has celebrated yesterday’s sale of the Gears of War IP to Microsoft. He also believes Rod Fergusson, another former Epic man who has also made the jump to Microsoft, is the right man for the brand’s new lease of life. …
Read More »King: We should never have published Pac-Avoid
Riccardo Zacconi, the CEO of King, has admitted that his company should never have released Pac-Avoid. Attention turned to the game in the wake of the Candy trademark dispute, with the accusation being that King knowingly cloned a game called Scamperghost that it had in 2009 been in negotiations to …
Read More »NSA and British government snooping on Angry Birds players
Angry Birds is the latest game to become embroiled in the international government spying scandal. In December it was revealed that America’s National Security Agency and the British Government had been accessing data sourced from users of services such as Xbox Live and World of Warcraft. Now The New York …
Read More »Bluepoint is developing Titanfall on Xbox 360
Respawn Entertainment has confirmed that it is not handling development duties for the current-gen version of Titanfall. Boss Vince Zampella has confirmed that Bluepoint Games is handling the Xbox 360 version of the highly anticipated multiplayer shooter, which is release on Xbox One, PC and 360 on March 14th. Bluepoint …
Read More »Steam users can now self-refund pre-orders
Origin-style money-back offers may be some way off, but Steam has introduced one consumer-pleasing feature over the weekend. Joystiq reports that Steam users are now able to automatically have pre-orders refunded via the introduction of a ‘Refund an Item’ button on their transaction history page. The pre-order amount is then …
Read More »And the Crackdown 3 announcement is… an indie publishing deal between Ruffian and Square Enix
Been looking forward to a Crackdown 3 announcement today? Stand down people, stand down. While the stars had seemingly aligned for a Crackdown 3 reveal this afternoon, it turns out that Microsoft’s news was the acquisition of the Gears of War IP. And Ruffian’s news? It has teamed up with …
Read More »Cave shutting down Western social media presence
The future looks bleak for cult Japanese studio Cave. The company has announced that it is closing its English language Twitter account and is directing users to instead refer to the official – Japanese only – Cavegames account. It all boils down to what is a disappointing failure for the …
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