Sainsbury’s is to stop selling physical entertainment products online in favour of an entirely on-demand model. The UK supermarket announced it is to halt sales of physical products across its Sainsbury’s Entertainment website from March 2014. As a result, Sainsbury’s will cease online sales of physical products including video games …
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After starting a short-term revolution, the Japanese console maker has discontinued production of the original Wii
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Read More »Valve details debut Steam Machine prototype
Valve has posted hardware specifications for its SteamOS-powered Steam Machine prototype. Here they are, as listed by Valve: GPU: some units with NVidia Titan, some GTX780, some GTX760, and some GTX660 CPU: some boxes with Intel : i7-4770, some i5-4570, and some i3 RAM: 16GB DDR3-1600 (CPU), 3GB DDR5 (GPU) …
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