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Parents need to be made aware of the potential risk posed to their kids by the gambling scene that has become associated with some video games. That’s according to the Gambling Commission, which has outlined some of its concerns in a new position paper on virtual currencies, eSports and video …
Read More »Roblox raises $92m in funding
Successful social game Roblox has concluded a round of funding with investment totalling $92m. The game currently boasts 48m active monthly players, with some 1.7m creators adding content to its platform. And some of these do pretty well out of it, making as much as $50k a month selling their …
Read More »Apple found guilty of Russian iPhone price fixing
Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service has found Apple guilty of fixing the price of the iPhone 5 and iPhone 6 in the country. Russia first opened investigations into the issue last autumn, at which time Apple denied the accusations and insisted that retailers were solely responsible for setting the price of …
Read More »Sony division is making an HTC Vive VR game
Here’s a surprise – an upcoming VR game from one of Sony’s experimental divisions is in development for HTC Vive. UploadVR reports that Sony’s Wow Factory, which is a set of projects from the company’s innovation labs, unveiled a title called Gold Rush VR at the SXSW festival. Innovation lab …
Read More »Moriarty quits Kinda Funny after Twitter joke controversy
The co-founder of YouTube channel Kinda Funny has quit the group after being drawn into a row about a sexist tweet. Colin Moriarty left IGN to form Kinda Funny in 2014. However, after tweeting about enjoying the peace and quiet on International Women’s Day, he has faced severe criticism both …
Read More »Switch prompts online traffic boost for US retailers
The launch of the Nintendo Switch earlier this month saw all major US retailers enjoy a boost to their online traffic. VentureBeat reports that data from analyst SimilarWeb shows that both GameStop and Toys R Us saw monthly traffic peaks on the day Switch launched – March 3rd. Traffic from …
Read More »Switch manufacturing costs could be to blame for software price disparity
The additional costs of manufacturing a Switch game cartridge over a PS4 or Xbox One disc could see multiplatform releases costing more on Nintendo’s machine. Eurogamer reports that two titles – Rime and Puyo Puyo Tetris – cost more on Switch than they do on other platforms. In the former …
Read More »SuperData estimates 1.5m Switch sales
Analyst SuperData has said that it believes Nintendo sold 1.5 Switch consoles worldwide. The number was calculated by adding together the estimated 500k US sales, 360k Japanese sales and data from across Europe. Switch sold around 80k in the UK, for instance, and an estimated 110k in France. Nintendo had …
Read More »Hackers claim early Switch success thanks to Apple loophole
It has been available for a little over a week but already one hacker claims to have snuck behind the Nintendo Switch’s security protection. Gizmodo reports that an old technique used by iOS jailbreakers has provided the breakthrough. Jailbreaking is the name of the process through which iPhones and iPads …
Read More »HTC VP: I disagree with Oculus’s strategy a lot
The VP of global VR for HTC has slammed VR rival Oculus for its walled garden approach to VR content. Joel Breton told GameSpot that HTC has an internal policy to encourage its development partners to release their titles on as many platforms as possible. Oculus, in contrast, has come …
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