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System Shock 3 and Oddworld: Soulstorm are among the first wave of titles to show that Unity is all-set for bigger things on console and PC
Read More »In the pipeline: Unity’s HDRP brings next-gen graphics to the world’s most-used game engine
Nintendo Direct E3 highlights: new Zelda in development and Animal Crossing delayed
A second full Zelda title on Switch is great news for the platform
Read More »Project xCloud: Stream from the cloud or from your own Xbox – launches October 2019
“Where you play is now entirely your choice, you decide.”
Read More »Xbox Two: ‘Project Scarlett’ coming ‘Holiday 2020’ alongside Halo Infinite
Microsoft also announced that Project Scarlett will use SSD storage in order to slash load times
Read More »Xbox Game Pass is the true ‘Netflix of games’ at E3 – 34 titles announced and $15 Ultimate pass gets full launch
If the future of games distribution is subscription then Microsoft is so far ahead it’s genius, or terrifying, depending on where you stand
Read More »Take-Two CEO talks full-year results: 24m copies of RDR 2 shipped, sales up by 47 per cent and the company’s E3 presence
Strauss Zelnick also reiterates the company’s support of Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford
Read More »Heaven’s Vault – how Inkle wrote its own herstory
Heaven’s Vault is out today, having recently won the Ukie UK Game of the Show at GDC. Seth Barton catches up with developer Inkle’s co-founders to talk about their passion for language, in all its many forms
Read More »Rare’s Craig Duncan: ‘I believe gaming can be a force for good’
“Our game has helped players battle social anxiety, helped them through depression."
Read More »Xbox: ‘We believe that we can compete on a lot of things; accessibility should not be one of them’
Program manager Evelyn Thomas looks back at the Xbox Adaptive Controller's core principles, its impact on Xbox, what the industry can do to improve accessibility and why Microsoft is keen to share what it learnt with Sony and Nintendo
Read More »Fortnite might be cannibalising the microtransaction revenue from the industry’s biggest franchises
Epic’s success could be proving costly for its competitors
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