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Read More »EA: Xbox One and PS4 "are a generation ahead of the highest end PC on the market"
Rajat Taneja, the executive VP and CTO of EA, has made a quite remarkable claim about the power of the upcoming next-generation. It all begins with the raw horsepower of the platform which catalyses the imagination and will power the next wave of innovation in entertainment,” he wrote on LinkedIn. …
Read More »ANALYSIS: Are smart devices killing the console?
62 per cent of the British population now own a smartphone and 29.3 per cent a tablet. In fact, in the latest data, smartphones accounted for 83 per cent of all mobile sales, demonstrating their growing dominance. There has been much debate recently about consumers’ interaction with smart devices, with …
Read More »AMD’s transformation "into a gaming company"
For a long time it has played second fiddle to Nvidia and Intel in the PC components space, but AMD now has other plans. Being signed as the component supplier for the PS4 (and according to a litany of sources the New Xbox as well), AMD’s position amidst the games …
Read More »Reduced demand for console Q&A
Game quality assurance firms have felt a sizable decrease in their console projects, which has put pressure on some companies to seek new business from other parts of the entertainment sector. Parallel to this reduction in console projects, there has been an increase in tablet and mobile games, which is …
Read More »Farming Simulator ripe for console success
Koch Media expects retailers to harvest plenty of sales from the upcoming console version of Farming Simulator 2013. Heading to Xbox 360 and PS3 in September, the cult hit has sold more than 800,000 units globally since the PC SKU launched in November. It has been a regular in the …
Read More »Ouya strikes 10,000 developer partnerships
Kickstarter-funded Android console Ouya has signed 10,000 developers worldwide. Ouya’s head of developer relations Kelle Santiago revealed the milestone to Games Industry, with the news coming just a month after CEO Julie Uhrman confirmed at GDC that the console had already signed on 8,000 devs. "It’s really awesome, especially at …
Read More »Amplitude: Console manufacturers must cut the paperwork
Leaving responsibility with devs is needed to improve openness, says Romain de Waubert
Read More »Poor Gears/God of War sales indicate disappointing March at US retail
Financial services firm Cowen & Company has released estimated sales numbers of console-exclusives Gears of War: Judgment and God of War: Ascension, stating that the typically strong selling franchises appear to have significantly underperformed.” Games Industry reports that, in an investor note, the company estimated the latest Gears of War …
Read More »Wargaming flirting with consoles
World of Tanks creator Wargaming has taken its first tentative steps toward console development. The company acquired FEAR and MechAssault developer Day 1 Studios in late January and then two weeks later followed this up with the acquisition of Gas Powered Games. "The hardware cannot constrain the player from getting …
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