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The smartphone sector is king, consuming all other formats in its wake, right? Apparently not. Actually, the good ol’ PC still rules the roost. The latest report by SuperData Research shows that the downloadable PC games market earned over $32bn last year – significantly more than the $25.1bn earned by …
Read More »Digital PC games outperformed mobile in 2015
SuperData report shows games for smart devices failed to match PC success
Read More »Warner accused of abandoning PC version of Mortal Kombat X
The PC community is once again up in arms about Warner Bros’ treatment of one of its key releases. The publisher has announced a new version of the game called Mortal Kombat XL, which features the original title, all of its subsequent DLC and the upcoming Kombat Pack 2 that …
Read More »Older Windows versions dropping support for latest Intel chips
Skylake architecture offers graphical improvements by up to ’30 times’ on Windows 10, Microsoft claims
Read More »iOS shipments overtook Windows last year as PC shipments suffer record decline
There were more Apple iOS devices than Windows devices shipped in 2015. It’s the first time ever that iOS has outsold Windows in a calendar year, according to Asymco, with 290m iOS devices (as well as 10m Macs) shipped versus 275m Windows machines. That latter number was down from 300m …
Read More »EA Access is now available on PC
Publisher EA has launched a PC version of its Access subscription service. EA Access debuted on Xbox One in 2014. For 3.99 per month gamers are given unlimited access to a growing catalogue of titles. Now PC gamers are able to get involved with the access via EA’s Origin PC …
Read More »‘PC piracy will be dead within two years,’ cracking group laments
Founder of 3DM predicts DRM advancements could produce impregnable games by 2018
Read More »200m installs and counting for Windows 10
The growth of Windows 10 continues with the operating system now installed on more than 200m devices. The milestone was revealed by astatement from Yusuf Mehdi, corporate VP for Microsoft’s Windows and Devices group, in which he stated that more than 40 per cent of new Windows 10 devices become …
Read More »PC Rise of the Tomb Raider confirmed for January release
Microsoft has announced that the PC edition of Rise of the Tomb Raider will be hitting Steam and Windows 10 at the end of January. The action adventure title will be coming out on January 28th, according to the publisher. This is in line with what was leaked from Amazon …
Read More »GTX 970 named as the entry-level GPU for VR on PC
The price of the headset is just the beginning of what looks to be the very expensive virtual reality revolution. Nvidia has named the minimum requirements for playing VR games on PC. The cheapest compatible graphics card is the GTX 970, which currently retails for around 250. Also compatible are …
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