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PC owners will soon get the chance to play PS4 exclusives without purchasing a console. Sony’s PlayStation Now service allows gamers to access they titles they don’t own via Sony’s streaming platform. Until now it has predominantly been used as a way for PS4 to offer backwards compatibility with PS3. …
Read More »Harmonix teams up with Hasbro for card game DropMix
The next game from music game maestros Harmonix has been revealed. It’s called DropMix, and has been jointly developed with toy giant Hasbro. Inside the box is a deck of cards and a Bluetooth and NFC enabled board that can connect with a smartphone or tablet (iOS or Android). Each …
Read More »UK Hearthstone prices to soar next week
Blizzard has confirmed that the price of cards packs for Hearthstone is to increase from March 22nd, and the UK in particular is in for a rough time. The prices, which apply to PC, Mac and Android, were announced on the Battle.net forums. The European price is going up by …
Read More »Ghost Recon Wildlands debuts at No.1 as Zelda sales drop 70%
There are three new entries in the Top Ten this week, with Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon Wildlands debuting at No.1. A year to the week after The Division enjoyed its record-breaking arrival, Wildlands sets a new 2017 week one record, and becomes the second fastest selling Tom Clancy title ever. Last …
Read More »Spectrum ZX Vega+ delayed once more after alleged new technical setback
The saga of the Spectrum ZX Vega+ continues this week with news of a fresh delay to the hardware and another personal attack from the company behind it. Last week it was reported that Retro Computers threatened the BBC with legal action if it reported on its ongoing failure to …
Read More »Nintendo: ‘There are no widespread technical problems’ with Switch
Joy Con syncing and screen scratching problems reported online are not symptomatic of problems with the Switch hardware, Nintendo has claimed. Speaking to Time, the platform holder has for the first time responded to the growing reports of manufacturing or design problems with the machine. At Nintendo, we take great …
Read More »Hello Games announces Hello Labs to support indie game projects
No Man’s Sky developer Hello Games has announced a new program designed to help fund and support indie projects from other studios. VentureBeat reports that Hello Labs will focus on procedurally generated titles – a method it employed to create the huge galaxy that featured in No Man’s Sky. For …
Read More »Castle named as new Amazon Game Studios head
Amazon Game Studios has named its new head – Westwood Studios co-founder Louis Castle. Castle will be a familiar name to RTS fans, having created the Command & Conquer series. We remained at Westwood after it was acquired by EA in the late ‘90s, heading up what became EA Blueprint. …
Read More »Carmack strikes back in Oculus-Zenimax legal merry-go-round
Id Software co-founder and Oculus Rift co-designer John Carmack is suing ZeniMax for allegedly missing payments. The legal situation between ZeniMax and Oculus is torrid, to say the last. ZeniMax was awarded $500m in damages last month over a trade-secrets breach, but has since gone on to try and halt …
Read More »PS4 tops US hardware charts in February
As of next month, things might get more interesting, but for the time being Sony’s US console hardware run continues. NPD data shows that PS4 was once again the best-selling console in the US in February, VentureBeat reports. The Xbox One experienced a resurgence in 2016, for a while overturning …
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