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EA anticipates 22m Xbox One and PS4 consoles will be sold during 2015. To date, thePS4 has sold 22.3m unitsworldwide, with2m of those sales in the UK. As of November 2014, Microsoft announced it had shipped 10m Xbox One consoles globally. According to EA, 27 million new-gen consoles had been …
Read More »DirectX 12 Multiadapter will allow PCs to use multiple graphics cards
Rumours that DirectX 12 will allow PC owners to tap into multiple GPUs simultaneously have been confirmed. Rumours of such a possibility emerged in February, and now Microsoft has confirmed that the API’s Multiadapter feature will use the power found across several graphics cards and even integrated GPUs simultaneously. Most …
Read More »HoloLens was key driver of Microsoft’s Mojang acquisition
Microsoft’s new chief executive has revealed that HoloLens played a crucial role in the company’s acquisition of Minecraft creator Mojang. Let’s have a game that, in fact, will fundamentally help us change new categories,” CEO Satya Nadella told The New York Times. HoloLens was very much in the works then, …
Read More »HoloLens drove Microsoft’s Mojang acquisition
Augmented reality tech was a big reason behind last year’s surprise takeover
Read More »Halo 5: Guardians Limited Collector’s Edition is £200, GAME-exclusive
A premium SKU has been revealed for the next instalment in the Halo franchise. The Limited Collector’s Edition of Halo 5: Guardians will cost 199.99 – more than four times the standard title’s 44.99 price tag. For their money, Halo fans will get what’s referred to as a ‘limited edition’ …
Read More »GameMaker getting full support for Windows 10
YoYo Games to showcase Windows 10 Universal Apps at Microsoft's Build 2015 conference
Read More »Microsoft details plans to bring iOS and Android apps to Windows 10
Subsystems and Objective-C compiler will help mobile devs bring their titles to new operating system
Read More »Microsoft HoloLens adds Unity support
Tools being added to Unity 5 for free, training available to anyone at Build conference
Read More »Microsoft confirms Unity support for HoloLens
Unity developers will soon have the ability to build games for the HoloLens headset, Microsoft revealed earlier today at its Build developer conference. In a post on Unity’s company blog, lead developer Scott Flynn states that both Personal and Pro editions of Unity will be updated with support for Hololens …
Read More »Console editions of Minecraft adding default female character this week
Minecraft’s default female character Alex will be added to console versions of the game later this week, Mojang has revealed. Owners of PlayStation and/or Xbox editions of the game will receive the Alex skins as a free update this Wednesday, according to a post by Mojang’s Owen Hill on the …
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