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Oculus VR is hiring game developers to work with John Carmack on the virtual reality headset manufacturer’s internal development program. Carmack joined the company as CTO last year and has since left his long-time role at id, where he helped develop classics like Doom, Quake, and Wolfenstein 3D, to work …
Read More »Capcom issues profits warning, cuts ties to Western developers, scraps projects
Profits for the current financial year will be about half of what was initially forecast, Capcom has warned. This is in part due to expenses associated with a freshly announced company-wide restructure. That was far from the only factor, however. The company also blamed drastic changes in the industry’s market …
Read More »Internal changes for PS3 Slim
As is fairly standard practice, Sony has made a few internal tweaks to the architecture of the latest PS3 Slim model.Andriasang reports that the new machine – the CECH-3000B – has reduced power consumption from the 230W seen in existing Slims to 200W. The weight has also dropped 400g to …
Read More »XBL Marketplace back online after outage
The Xbox Live Marketplace was inoperable for a brief period last night, though Microsoft has insisted that the problems were not due to any kind of hack or intrusion. Following the mystery disappearance of both the Xbox 360 and online version of Marketplace, MS issued the following press statement: "Users …
Read More »OnLive strikes in-built HDTV deal
Cloud gaming service OnLive will arrive pre-built into a range of new consumer tech, it will be revealed at CES. Future iterations of HDTVs, tablets, phones and Blu-ray players from Vizio will include OnLive functionality out of the box. Today’s OnLive/VIZIO announcement marks a major milestone,” OnLive boss Steve Perlman …
Read More »PS3 bug what happened?
Throughout yesterday’s ‘Day of Despair‘ for PS3, Sony persistently referred to the issue as a problem with PSN – but the truth behind what caused the global blackout of around 90 per cent of the world’s PS3 is a lot more complicated. PSN was initially thought to be at fault …
Read More »MS allegedly establishes Halo studio
Rumours are beginning to intensify that Microsoft’s Halo studio has established itself as 343 Industries”. Last year Microsoft Game Studios hired high-profile talent to its internal Halo studio, snapping up the likes of former MGS4 assistant producer Ryan Payton and Bungie’s Frank O’Connor. The studio hasn’t established its own name …
Read More »Microsoft ups 360’s internal memory
With the Jasper iteration of the Xbox 360’s innards now well and truly out in the market, it transpires that Microsoft has now sneaked a bit of extra memory onto the motherboard’s architecture. When the Japser iteration of the Xbox 360 (identifiable by the 150w power rating on the box’s …
Read More »Microsoft confirms 360s internal storage
Xbox 360 platform holder Microsoft has confirmed that its latest internal redesign of the Xbox 360 is upon us, and that it does indeed boast 256MB of internal memory inside the unit. Speaking to 360Fanboy, a Microsoft spokesperson stated: We are constantly updating the console’s more than 1700 internal components. …
Read More »New 360 motherboard now shipping
Microsoft never officially comments on its ongoing internal redesigns for its Xbox 360 hardware, but online tech-heads are claiming that the latest revision to the console’s innards has arrived on the High Street. Talk first emerged of the new motherboard’s arrival began earlier in the month, but in recent days …
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