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A smaller, cheaper version of credit card-sized computer Raspberry Pi is now available for purchase, the hardware’s creators have announced. The non-profit organization’s blog reveals Raspberry Pi model A+ is 21mm shorter in length than the B+ edition of the device. It also consumes less power, carries better audio, and …
Read More »Razer valued at more than $1bn – report
Gaming tech company Razer currently carries a value greater than $1bn, according to a leaked document tied to a new round of funding from Intel. Techcruch has its mitts on an internal memo from the firm that states Razer is a billion dollar unicorn” in the tech world. "We’re already …
Read More »Develop 100: What is the best game-making technology?
One week left to send in your suggestions for upcoming tech guide
Read More »Microsoft acquires 80 wearable tech assets in $150m deal
Microsoft has acquired a collection of assets from wearable computing firm Osterhout Design Group for a suspected $150 million. The technology juggernaut was in talks to purchase ODG entirely in September last year, an unnamed source toldTechCrunch. However, the deal later switched to an IP acquisition. The transaction was completed …
Read More »Titanfall wasn’t originally planned for Xbox One
Respawn has admitted that next-gen wasn’t an original element of the Titanfall plan. "Originally we weren’t planning on an Xbox One version of the game,” Respawn lead engineer Richard Baker told Eurogamer. I’m certain that having an Xbox One version has made our PC version much better – it justified …
Read More »‘CES can offer game giants an audience that E3 cannot’
The biggest names in games are returning to CES to show off products to the ‘entire tech ecosystem,’ says the event’s organisers. The Consumer Electronics Show used to be a home for the games industry before the launch of E3 in 1995. But this year saw more video game companies …
Read More »TWICE Europe goes daily
TWICE Europe – the newsletter for the European consumer electronics trade – will now go straight to your inbox every single weekday. The mailer, launched in October 2013, rounds up the ten most important CE and retail stories from around the web twice a week. You can sign up for …
Read More »HMV ramping down tech, stepping up games, music and film
HMV is reducing the amount of high-end technology it sells, the retailer has told MCV’s sister site PCR. HMV director Steve West revealed that the firm has cut back on selling items such as tablets to make way for products which our customers more readily associate with the HMV brand” …
Read More »Firaxis and Microsoft vets form new game engine firm
Oxide Games working on 64-bit multicore development platform Nitrous for PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Read More »Inside Rockstar North – Part 3: The Tech
Technical leads Adam Fowler and Phil Hooker take us through the technology powering GTA V
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