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Read More »PS4 and Xbox One’s AMD Jaguar CPU examined
The AMD Jaguar CPU that lies at the heart of both PS4 and Xbox One may not be the gaming beast we had expected. Rock Paper Shotgun got its hands on an 4-core 1.5Ghz variant of the 8-core 1.6Ghz chip found in both consoles. It speculates that once the multitasking …
Read More »Second listing for Mirror’s Edge 2 on Xbox One spotted
EA could be set for a hugely fan-pleasing reveal at E3 next month – Mirror’s Edge 2. After an Amazon Germany listing for the game was spotted last week, OXM has now noticed a similar listing on the Italian arm of Amazon. Both listings have now been removed. Interestingly, the …
Read More »UK Xbox One pre-orders ahead of PS4, although PS4 enjoys post Xbox spike
MCV has received word from retail sources that pre-orders for the Xbox One are tracking ahead of PS4 in many UK stores. In fact, one told us that in the 24 hours after Xbox One’s reveal last week the total number of pre-orders it received for Microsoft’s machine outstripped the …
Read More »Indie developer program planned for Xbox One
Microsoft IS planning on courting indie games developers to produce titles for the Xbox One. It was reported last week that indie devs would need to seek the services of a publisher if they wished to get their games on Xbox One. But in seemingly another PR U-turn the platform …
Read More »Microsoft: "We are definitely listening. We will get it right"
Thanks to everyone for your comments and feedback, we are definitely listening.” That’s the message from Microsoft’s chief of staff for interactive entertainment business Aaron Greenberg, who has taken to Twitter to assure fans that the Xbox One has not forgotten gamers. [The] mood is positive, [it’s] good to be …
Read More »Mark Rein "calls bullshit" on EA’s PC vs next-gen consoles claim
Epic boss Mark Rein has shouted down recent comments from EA regarding the technological merit of next-gen consoles. Last week EA’s executive VP and CTO Rajat Taneja stated that: Both the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 have adopted electronics and an integrated systems-on-a-chip architecture that unleashes magnitudes more compute and …
Read More »Over 8m viewers tuned into Xbox One event stream
Microsoft’s unveiling of the Xbox One brought in a massive amount of viewers. The company has announced the stream of the event was watched by 8.45m people on the day of the reveal, with 1.73m tuning in on Spike TV. The former figure triples the firm’s previous record for concurrent …
Read More »Microsoft promises Xbox One indie support
Interactive Entertainment boss Don Mattrick says 'there's no way' Xbox won't support indies
Read More »Microsoft: Cloud makes Xbox One four times more powerful
But tech experts question validity of claims in face of latency and bandwidth restrictions
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