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Yes, that headline is correct. The $249 Foc.us is being advertised as a tDCS [transcranial Direct Current Stimulation] headset for gamers” that allows users to overclock your brain to increase the plasticity”. The result? Allegedly a user’s synapses fire faster”. Or in other words – Faster Processor, Faster Graphics, Faster …
Read More »Pachter: Nintendo is "in a world of trouble right now"
The release of Wii U came two years too late to save Nintendo from a poor showing in the coming console battleground, it has been claimed. Nintendo’s in a world of trouble right now,” Michael Pachter told ABC News 10. By the time they did launch a console that stacks …
Read More »Club Nintendo Japan website hacked
Nintendo has confirmed a breach of security on the Japanese version of the Club Nintendo website. Kotaku reports that the platform holder says it noticed a unusually high number of errors were noticed on the site on July 2nd, at which point it launched an investigation. That discovered that 23,000 …
Read More »Triple-A development in significant decline, EA claims
The number of studios working on triple-A games is at its lowest point for over a decade, EA’s chief creative director Richard Hilleman has claimed. What is true today is that there are fewer triple-A games being built than at the same point in the previous generation,” he says in …
Read More »Mattrick "lives like a Saudi prince and takes a private jet to work"
Man of the moment Don Mattrick has been described as a division head who lives like a Saudi prince”. A profile of the exec on Fast Company claims that he takes a private jet to work, name-drops celebrity friends and lives in the largest house in British Colombia valued at …
Read More »EA "back to square one" in CEO search after Mattrick’s Zynga switch
Michael Pachter has claimed that recently departed Xbox boss Don Mattrick was the No.1 choice for the vacant CEO role at EA. Mattrick’s decision to join Zynga, then, has left EA in what can technically be described as a pickle”. "Now that Mr. Mattrick has taken the job at Zynga, …
Read More »UPDATED: Xbox One headset rumours dismissed
UPDATE 2:The source, who has requested to remain anonymous, has now retracted their statement to a simple "no comment". So we’re none the wiser, if we’re being honest. Lots of other sites have had it suggested to them that the headset rumour isn’t true, however. UPDATE 1:It has been confirmed …
Read More »Bushnell: Microsoft "screwed up" Xbox One launch, thinks trade-ins are good for industry
One of the founding members of the games industry has blasted Microsoft for its handling of the Xbox One reveal. They totally screwed it up,” Atari founder Nolan Bushnell told VG247. When I heard some of the announcements and the analysis of it, I’m shaking my head and saying, ‘What …
Read More »Kinect 2.0 to drive targeted, integrated Xbox One advertising platform
Advertising has been a central element in the design process behind not only the Xbox One but also the Kinect 2.0 camera, Microsoft has said. That’s according to StickTwiddlers which travelled to Microsoft’s London office earlier this week to meet with Xbox Live’s advertising team. Although none of the employees …
Read More »How would you describe the average British gamer?
Gamers? Ha! A bunch of overweight, spotty boys cooped up in their rooms because they’re too socially awkward to step outside, right? Wrong. So very, very wrong. CVG has word of a new survey from gaming social network Pixwoo that finds that the average British gamer is as follows: They’re …
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