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Microsoft will open a new games studio in London, MCV can reveal. The company is hiring for senior staff to run the studio, which will sit alongside established UK teams Rare, Lionhead and the newer Soho Studios. EMEA is a key market for us and we continue to cultivate the …
Read More »Pitchford: ‘New IP can launch at any time’
Borderlands 2 developer Randy Pitchford wants to see more new IP released – despite the age of the current consoles. The Gearbox boss points to 2009’s Borderlands as proof that you can launch a new franchise at any time, as well as previous titles his studio has worked on. He …
Read More »iPhone 5 tipped for September release
Apple’s iPhone 5 is gearing up for a release in September, according to new reports. The Guardian has learned” that the new device is just two months away. It will include a new 19-pin connector (replacing the current Apple standard 30-pin version) and a new nano-sim (that’s 40 per cent …
Read More »Red, white and silver PS3s hit UK
Sony has said that three new versions of the PS3 should be in stores right now. Three brand new colours – Scarlet Red, Satin Silver and Classic White – are apparently already in-store” across Europe and the UK, according to the UK PlayStation blog. Each version is apparently a Limited …
Read More »New website for Music Week
MCV’s sister site Music Week, the globally renowned b2b media brand at the heart of the music industry, has unveiled a brand new version of its websitewww.musicweek.com. The much needed overhaul comes less than a year after the brand was acquired by independent trade publisher Intent Media and follows a …
Read More »IN PICTURES: The ‘Super Slim’ PS3 4000
Images of the rumoured PS3 4000 – or PS3 Super Slim – have appeared online. Brazilian tech site Tecnoblog says it sourced the stills from a Sony filing with telcoms regulator Anatel. As is consistent with previous rumours, the new model appears to have a flip-top lid as opposed to …
Read More »Steam’s Greenlight gives users power to vote for new games
Developers that have often grumbled about having games rejected from Steam may be appeased by a new community voting element that lets gamers decide what gets sold on the site. "Steam Greenlight is a new system that enlists the community’s help in picking some of the next games to be …
Read More »Is this a PS3 Super Slim?
A filing with the Federal Communications Commission suggests that Sony might be preparing to reveal a brand new PlayStation 3 design – perhaps at Gamescom. Eurogamer has dug up documents that appear to show a new super slim” version of the PS3 carrying the 4000 series label. Current PS3s are …
Read More »Sony’s Resistance crumbles as IP seemingly comes to an end
It seems as if time may have been called on the Resistance series. Speaking to Official PlayStation Magazine, SCEE’s online producer Daniel Brooke stated that: The Resistance franchise has been exciting to work on but as for the future we have nodefinitiveplans.” The Resistance IP began with Insomniac Games’ PS3 …
Read More »E3 2012: OnLive claims "millions" of users, 100% uptime since launch
OnLive has claimed that it has millions of subscribers worldwide”, but has once again decided not to reveal the number of gamers paying to use its service. OnLive went live at E3 2010 with just 19 games in its library on only PCs and Macs over Ethernet,” an official statement …
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