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Competitive online shooter Dead Star is switching off, despite being offered for free to PlayStation Plus subscribers in April. Kotaku reports that Armature Studios is closing the game’s online servers on November 1st, and has already pulled the game’s store listing on both Steam and PSN. It was released last …
Read More »Red Dead Redemption 2 confirmed, along with online multiplayer
Yes, it’s true – Rockstar has officially confirmed Red Dead Redemption 2. The game is due out in autumn 2017 and has so far only been confirmed for PS4 and Xbox One. There is not yet any word on a PC release. Also confirmed is that the game will offer …
Read More »‘Incredible failure of leadership’ forces Apple to scrap car plans
The long-rumoured Apple car was indeed real, but will now likely not see the light of day after plans for the program were abandoned, a report has claimed Bloomberg says that hundreds of members of Apple’s 1,000 person car team have been reassigned, let go, or have left of their …
Read More »Sonic Mania Collector’s Edition is coming to the UK
UK and European gamers who feared they might miss out on the retro-tastic Collector’s Edition of Sonic Mania are in for some good news. Sega has confirmed a release for the SKU in the UK, France, Germany and Spain in spring 2017. It will be an Amazon exclusive and costs …
Read More »PlayStation VR pre-orders in the "hundreds of thousands" as stock runs dry
Supplies of the PlayStation VR are running incredibly short after what Sony has described as sales totalling the hundreds of thousands”. The headsets are almost impossible to track down in the UK this week, with nearly all major retailers left out of stock. It’s not yet clear when stocks will …
Read More »Tiny sales forecast for Vive and Oculus in the US this year
Virtual reality may have to wait a while longer before it makes any meaningful impact on the market. VentureBeat reports that a forecast by Strategy Analystics predicts that just six per cent of Americans – that’s 11.4m people – will own a VR headset by the end of 2016. That …
Read More »Profits fall 81 per cent at GAME
GAME Digital has seen profits for the year fall to 4.9m, down 81 per cent the 25.8m reported in the previous year. Sales dropped from 866.6m to 822.5m, a 5.1 per cent decline. Adjusted profit fell 56.8 per cent to 16.4m. The board has approved a final share dividend of …
Read More »Carmack says VR can’t rely on novelty for long
Virtual reality developers will need to step up and start offering titles that offer more than just a novelty appeal. That’s according to Oculus CTO and industry veteran John Carmack, who told an audience at Oculus Connect that the appeal of the new cannot be the sole selling point of …
Read More »Sonic is getting his own art exhibition
Sounds kind of unlikely, doesn’t it? But thanks to a partnership between Sega and art publisher Washington Green, retro games icon Sonic is indeed to star in his own art exhibition. The works are said to be diverse in style and come from critically acclaimed artists. Expect fine art, sculpture …
Read More »VIDEOS: Here’s how to hook up the PlayStation VR
The PlayStation VR arrives this Thursday (October 13th), and Sony has released a video guide designed to help new owners get the headset up and running. The tutorial comes in three parts and is basically just an alternative to reading the manual that comes in the box. Because who reads …
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