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Id Software co-founder John Carmack has said he is dissatisfied with the industry abandoning aging console generations and the huge audiences that they have in favour of rising costs and added risk. Speaking toWiredon the 20th anniversary of Doom, the trailblazing first-person shooter he co-created with Jon Romero, Carmack said …

Ubisoft’s latest Rayman title, Legends, is getting a next-gen makeover and will be coming to stores early next year. The game makes the leap to the new hardware with a series of improvements – the cartoon graphics have received an overhaul, while loading times have been reduced. Each console gets …

PS4 won’t break all-time console sales records but will emerge as the next-gen console winner, analyst DFC Intelligence has predicted. DFC Intelligence has forecasted that the PlayStation 4 would be the number one console game system of this new generation,” it said. The successful launch of the PS4 is an …

Last year one of the questions was whether free-to-play was really a legitimate business model or a temporary fad? One year on and we have our answer. It is definitely here to stay. And the model has evolved and changed even further. From its humble beginnings on PC with the …

Doom co-creator also says he would have liked to release more games at Id Software

A new video demonstrating the tech powering Ubisoft’s The Division points to a very exciting looking next-gen release. The footage, which can be seen below, was shown over the weekend at the VGX Awards. It details the huge advances promised by the game’s Snowdrop engine – if it delivers on …

Sony is yet to announce a launch date for the PS4 in India, but it has said that stocks will most probably run out soon after the console launches in the country. In terms of sell-through, I don’t think we will be too far off from seeing what we’re seeing …

PS4’s early advantage over Xbox One is purely because it retails for 80 less. That’s according to Michael Pachter, who has downplayed the importance of PS4’s technical advantage or any of the controversy that has dogged Microsoft since E3. "The reason Sony beats Microsoft is solely the price," Wedbush Securities …

PS4 games published by Sony will be priced at Rs 3,999 in India. PlayStation India head Atindriya Bose confirmed the pricing to MCV at the Gran Turismo 6 launch event in Mumbai earlier today. First-party game pricing is significant as several third-party publishers tend to take their pricing cues from …

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