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The ‘power of the cloud’ remains a key USP for Xbox One despite Microsoft’s ditching of its unpopular DRM plans. "Our vision around Xbox One and what you can do because of the power of both the architecture of the console, and also the cloud and the Xbox Live service, …
Read More »Sony: Vita is behind the numbers we originally pictured
The Sony party may be about to board the PS4 train tonight, but let’s not forget the other half of the PlayStation empire. Sony confirmed a Japanese price cut for the PlayStation Vita this week – a move it hopes will reverse its fortunes in its homeland as it continues …
Read More »Gabe Newell confirms Steam Living Room PC plans
A Steam-centric PC designed to live under consumers’ TVs will likely be launched in 2013, according to Valve boss Gabe Newell. Speaking to Kotaku, Newell revealed that the reaction to its recently released TV-friendly Big Picture mode for Steam has been stronger than he expected. As a result, plans to …
Read More »Tomorrow’s Halo 4 launch to conquer the UK
It will impossible to escape the launch of Halo 4 this week as the Xbox team prepares its most ambitious campaign to date. Master Chief’s latest adventure – released tomorrow (November 6th) – will be supported by the biggest out of house budget Xbox UK has ever spent on a …
Read More »EE admits that 500MB 4G data plan has little use for customers
The cheapest 4G tariff offered by Everything Everywhere is little use for anything beyond checking email and surfing the net. An infograph released by the telco, which you can see below, suggests that those who sign up for the 36 per month entry-level tariff will be unable to use their …
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 »HMV U-turns on game plan
Just weeks after telling MCV it will cut the store space dedicated to games, HMV has changed its mind. Instead it will actually now grow the amount of space for games as it looks to take advantage of market gaps left by the shrunken GAME. Earlier this year the High …
Read More »No plans for white PS Vita in UK
Sony doesn’t intend to bring the Crystal White PlayStation Vita to European shores. As reported earlier, the white version of the handheld will launch in Japan on June 28th. But at this point in time Sony says it will not arrive elsewhere. We do not have plans currently to bring …
Read More »ANALYSIS: Call of Duty’s Online Plan
Call of Duty is past it. The latest sales data revealed that Modern Warfare 3 has (so far) sold fewer copies than 2010’s Black Ops. A whole 4.2 per cent less. According to some corners of the press, the shooter series has peaked. Except it hasn’t. Not one bit. A …
Read More »Ubisoft details digital vision
French publisher Ubisoft clearly sees 2012 as being a huge year for digital games sales, unveiling a huge number of new digital games at a US trade event yesterday. Several Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network titles were announced which the firm hopes will build on the success of 2011 …
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