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Ataribox specs, price and release date revealed
Atari has revealed more details about its upcoming Ataribox console. Launching in spring 2018 around the world for a price between $249-299 depending on specification and memory configurations, Atari’s new micro-console will be released first through the Indiegogo crowdfunding platform. As well as having a "large" back catalogue of classic …
Read More »Raiders of the Broken Planet won’t be like Evolve, says Mercurysteam
With the Christmas season rapidly approaching, the usual cluster of blockbuster FPS titles is gradually coming into focus, with Call of Duty: WWII, Star Wars Battlefront 2, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, and, of course, the PC release of Destiny 2 all still to come before the year’s out. …
Read More »Mercurysteam’s Dave Cox: ‘Games have become too expensive’
With development costs getting higher and higher each passing year, games have now become too expensive, according to Mercurysteam’s senior producer Dave Cox. That’s why the developer is releasing its upcoming online 4v1 shooter-brawler title Raiders of the Broken Planet, which comes out this Friday (September 22nd) with a free …
Read More »HTC Vive price drops to £599
HTC Vive has announced its first price drop for its virtual reality headset. Starting from today, the HTC Vive will now cost just 599 in the UK, and all new purchases will come with a free trial to its Viveport subscription service, which lets consumers experience up to five titles …
Read More »Permanent price cut for HTC Vive
The virtual reality headset drops $200 permanently but is still more than competitior Oculus
Read More »Games publishing 2017: how to set a game’s price
In Part One of our publishing roundtable, we talked to publishers about setting release dates and how fewer triple-A releases could mean better business for the whole industry. In Part Two, we discuss pricing. As more indie titles head to retail, the debate around games pricing has never been fiercer. We ask …
Read More »Ark: Survival Evolved has doubled in price
Popular survival title Ark: Survival Evolved has undergone a dramatic price increase on Steam. The game had until recently carried a 22.99 price tag on Steam in the UK. At times it had even been available for under a tenner when on sale. Now, however, the game will set buyers …
Read More »Microsoft explains Xbox One X’s £449 price
There has been much debate about Microsoft’s decision to price the Xbox One X at 449 ($499 in the US). That’s the same price the original Xbox One launched at (and the PS3, for that matter) but $100 more than both the PS4 and PS4 Pro launch prices. Speaking to …
Read More »Xbox One X price is ‘an obvious weakness’ – SuperData
Now that the dust has settled on Microsoft’s Xbox One X reveal, it seems analysts are still uncertain about We’ve already heard IHS say it doesn’t expect the machine to reignite Xbox One sales in the Europe, but SuperData’s Joost van Dreunen goes a little further, telling MCV that the …
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