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A press release from eSports firm Gfinity has seemingly let slip some up to date Xbox One sales data. In discussing its new Xbox One Tournament Builder App, CEO Neville Upton references the agreement’s ability to enable us to reach Xbox One’s 18 million users globally”. The last official sales …
Read More »Microsoft discontinues the Xbox 360
The end of the line has come, perhaps surprisingly early, for Xbox 360. Microsoft has announced that it is ending production of the console just over ten years after it arrived. Once current supplies have gone, that will be it. Xbox 360 means a lot to everyone in Microsoft. And …
Read More »‘PlayStation 4.5’ will not have exclusive games, boosted specs detailed
Hardware revision reportedly codenamed ‘Neo’ and features faster CPU, GPU and memory
Read More »Android N expands developer support for mobile VR
Ability to designate apps as ‘VR Listener’ or ‘VR Helper’, as well as ‘sustained performance’ hardware support flag, hint at greater versatility for virtual reality experiences
Read More »March brings another US win for PS4
PS4 was once again the best-selling console in the US for the month of March. That takes its winning streak over rival Xbox One to 13 of the last 15 months, VentureBeat reports, with Microsoft’s only victories throughout that period coming in April and October 2015. Thank you to our …
Read More »Rumours point to three new Nvidia GTX cards in June
With Nvidia’s tech conference having been and gone without word of any new GPU models, now rumours suggest a June release for Nvidia’s next-gen graphic card line up. PC Gamer reports on word that three SKUs housing the Pascal tech that was demoed at the conference are currently prepping for …
Read More »PC shipments fall to nine year low
Two analysts have reported a sharp fall in PC shipments for the first quarter if 2016. VentureBeat reports that Gartner says global PC shipments for the period fell 9.6 per cent to 64.8m units. It’s the first time since 2007 that the number has fallen below 65m. IDC’s numbers were …
Read More »Coleco Chameleon boss sheds light on fake console prototype
One of the key figures behind the failed Coleco Chameleon console has spoken out on his version of why the venture collapsed. All trace of the project vanished last month after a pair of prototype devices, one of which was shown to the public at the New York Toy Fair, …
Read More »PS4 and Xbox One component supplier says new products on the way this year
Chip manufacturer AMD has said that its Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom Business group, which supplies parts for PS4 and Xbox One, is preparing for the launch of new products in 2016. In our EESC segment, we had record shipments of our semi-custom SoCs powering the Playstation 4 and Xbox One …
Read More »Microsoft demonstrates Star Wars-like 3D holograms using HoloLens
‘Holoportation’ technology projects real-time recreations of people and objects into real-life environments
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