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Microsoft is celebrating a big milestone for the latest iteration of its world-conquering operating system. Windows 10 is now installed on over 400m systems worldwide. It has hit this number in 14 months. That’s a fair bit quicker than Windows 7, which took over 20 months to reach the same …
Read More »PS4 Pro is designed to counter PC migration
It is the PC, and not the Xbox Scorpio, that’s at the heart of Sony’s decision to abandon the traditional console lifecycle with the generation refreshing PS4 Pro. I saw some data that really influenced me. It suggested that there’s a dip mid-console lifecycle where the players who want the …
Read More »Hello Games appoints community support team in wake of No Man’s Sky backlash
‘What matters now, as always, is what we do rather than what we say’
Read More »Tokyo 42 goes multiplatform
UPDATE: Mode 7 has confirmed that the game will be multiplatform, including Xbox One, with a simultaneous release. The headline has been amended accordingly. ORIGINAL STORY: Isometric action title Tokyo 42 will arrive on PS4 as well as PC, Mode 7 has announced. It has a release date of early …
Read More »CCP takes EVE Online free-to-play after 13 years
Subscription tier will be maintained, with paying users granted uninhibited skill progression and faster levelling-up
Read More »Arcen Games pulls new PC title and refunds all sales after a week of Early Access
Founder Chris Park frankly admits that In Case of Emergency, Release Raptor ‘sold very poorly’ and release was planned ‘as a market survey of sorts’
Read More »ModDB saves fellow mod sharing site GameFront
‘While epic total conversions that push boundaries like Counter-Strike and DotA once did are not as common, mods like these remain as important as ever in making new and old games great’
Read More »H1Z1 development ‘paused’ on PS4 and Xbox One
Daybreak has announced that the arrival of zombie hit H1Z1: King of the Kill on consoles will now be later than originally planned. The game, which is currently available on PC via Steam Early Access, had been scheduled for launch on consoles this summer. However, while King of the Kill …
Read More »Steam Spy overturns data removal, refuses future dev takedown requests
‘The fact that the movie industry hasn't collapsed despite releasing box office numbers gives me faith that the games industry will survive as well,' insists creator Sergey Galyonkin
Read More »Halo 5’s Forge mode coming to Windows 10 next month
Microsoft’s sci-fi shooter Halo 5: Guardians is coming to PC. Kind of. The game’s map editor mode Forge is launching on Windows 10 on September 8th. This will let players host and play custom matches for up to 16 players. Map creations can also be published on Xbox One. Forge …
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