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Read More »Free Xbox 360 game Happy Wars scores 2m players
Xbox Live’s first free-to-play title Happy Wars has amassed over 2m players worldwide since launch. Developer Toylogic announced the figure as it rolls out a new content update designed to secure even more players. I’m so excited that more than two million people love Happy Wars. I hope all of …
Read More »PS4 tops YouTube’s most-watched ads list
More than 26 million people watched Sony’s reveal trailer for its next-generation PS4 console last month. The video, which can be viewed below, topped YouTube’s ads leaderboard for February 2013 with five million more views than the next most popular ad, which was from Samsung Mobile USA. The rankings are …
Read More »Braid dev concerned by Microsoft’s next-gen strategy
The creator of indie hit Braid admits that the idea of working with Microsoft on its new Xbox console fills him with a certain amount of dread”. Jonathan Blow’s experiences with PS4, on the other hand, have been overwhelmingly positive. That’s why his next game, The Witness, is scheduled to …
Read More »Dishonored dev: PS4’s 8GB memory is a joy
Increased memory in next-gen console will help alleviate level design struggles, says Christophe Carrier
Read More »Dishonored dev: PS4’s 8GB memory is "a joy"
Sony’s decision to up the PS4’s internal memory from 4GB to 8GB of DDR5 may seem like a tiny detail, but devs are delighted by the decision. Specifically, Dishonored’s lead level designer Christophe Carrier described his joy” at the new to Eurogamer. "As a level designer we are struggling against …
Read More »Nvidia announces support for AMD-powered PS4
Nvidia today announced that its PhysX and APEX technologies will be supported on the PS4, which Sony announced in February. Nvidia and AMD’s war for dominance of the PC platform has been as fiercely fought and well documented as Sony and Microsoft’s in the console space, so it’s interesting to …
Read More »Wave of development tools power up on PS4
Morpheme 4, xaitControl, Enlighten, PhysX, Apex and SpeedTree supporting new console
Read More »PS4 to go into production in August, to ship 16 million units this year
The PlayStation 4 will go into full production in August and will ship 16 million units this year, reports out of Taiwan and Japan have suggested. Esuteru(Japanese) has quoted a report in Taiwanese publication Digitimes as saying that production will be handled by Taiwanese companies Foxconn and Pegatron. Foxconn also …
Read More »Telltale wants to transfer your Walking Dead save from PS3 to PS4
The Walking Dead’s all-important narrative arc may not be lost in the transition to next-gen. Players of the game’s five episodes will have seen their characters develop across each release. While PC players will have no problem keeping hold of this vital progress data, the lack of compatibility between PS3 …
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