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Ex Commodore Amiga owners like myself will be anticipating the upcoming release of Shadow Of The Beast, just announced by Sony at their Gamecom press conference. The Shadow Of The Beast was a side scrolling platform game produced by Reflections Interactive and published by Psygnosis in 1989. The original version …

Sony have announced their intended release dates for the next generation Playstation 4 console. The dates are set at 15th November in North America and 29th November in Europe. The Xbox One will go on sale in the same month, although some countries will now have to wait until 2014 …

Microsoft may have annoyed many countries after announcing some will need to wait until 2014 to get the Xbox One, but the company have announced a huge list of games for the next generation console. According to Xbox.com, there are now 50 games listed for the Xbox One console, with …

Nvidia has been quite vocal about its disinterest in the console industry, citing low profit margins as one of the reasons you won't find any of its hardware in the next-gen Xbox One or PS4 consoles. AMD however, believes this isn't true and that by bringing its hardware to bear, …

The Xbox One has been pushed back to 2014 in eight countries, Microsoft confirmed late yesterday. Gamers who want to snag the latest console in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Sweden and Switzerland will have to wait now until an unspecified date next year. The Xbox One will still be …

If you or your child is having difficulty standing up straight then you may need to blame your console. The effects of hunching over to play with smartphones, consoles and tablets have created what two Dutch orthopaedic experts are calling ‘Game Boy Back'. These back problems are normally associated with …

Microsoft have told gamers that they will no longer need to have an always online, all seeing online camera attached to their Xbox One. Just another in the latest line of 180 degree changes for the company who have been facing a lot of negative press for a series of …

A video published by Xbox's official YouTube channel has shown Larry Hyrb (better know as Major Nelson) unboxing a retail version of Microsoft's upcoming next-generation games console. The video shows the accessories that will be included with retail Xbox One consoles and gives a brief tour of their capabilities. It …

It's going to be a big number isn't it. If you think about all the home console releases and all the handhelds Nintendo has made available to our wallets over the past 30 years, it's going to be a lot. Well, made your guess? Ready? 654.12 million. When broken down, …

In an interview with the always colourful Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb, Microsoft's corporate VP Marc Whitten, has announced that the graphics processor within the company's next-gen Xbox One, is now a little bit faster, thanks to driver optimisations and a clock speed bump. Describing the current situation with the One …

Sony has announced that it is going to have to cut back on pre-order promises to supply its next-generation console on launch day, as apparently the numbers are just getting too lofty to deal with. However, that doesn't mean pre-orders made today, or tomorrow won't be fulfilled as you might …

Poor Nintendo. Its “next-gen” system has had a horrible start, despite having a year lead in on both Microsoft and Sony's systems. New figures announced during Nintendo's quarterly earnings report, suggest that worldwide, it only sold 160,000 of the machines between April and June this year. Game sales were a …

We've known for a while now that the PS4 would come packing a hell of a lot more RAM than its predecessor. While the PS3 had 512Mb (256MB system and 256MB GPU memory) the PS4 is coming as standard with a full 8GB. However, it's not been clear how much …

Oh Microsoft, will you pick a policy and stick to it please? It's nice of you to keep changing your mind giving me stories to write about, but this is just getting silly now. We might as well not believe any policies you have at this point, because they could …

Microsoft has just updated the prices on its official online store, putting to bed some of the £99.99 place-holder prices we've seen dotted around. Now the new – and presumably final – pricing for some of the console's first party games, including Ryse, Dead Rising 3 and Forza 5, are …

Nvidia's handheld streaming console, the Shield, was expected to debut at the end of June, but due to some minor delays it was put on hold with no real word of when it might be made available. Now though we know, and it's just over a week away. The Shield …

Microsoft's chief product officer for the Xbox One, Marc Whitten, has spoken out in an interview with IGN, about how he feels Microsoft failed to communicate the real message of its next-gen console and that that's the reason for the flip-flopping behaviour of the company. ““I think it’s pretty simple. …

Rumour has it that Microsoft may be planning a hardware upgrade for the Xbox one, to compete better against the more powerful Sony Playstation 4. An anonymous source spoke to The Examiner and it would appear that Microsoft may be looking to increase the Xbox One processor speed. The processor …

All our polls show the opposite, but PC World and Currys are predicting that the Microsoft Xbox One will be the UK's best selling tech gift at Christmas this year. DSG, the parent group of both PC World and Currys were accurate with their predictions last year. They said that …

Remember when Microsoft announced all those features earlier this year for the Xbox One? TV viewing, cloud saves, cloud computing, game lending, family sharing – and a little thing called every-24-hour activations? Of course you do, because you screamed in the software giant's face to have it ditch all of …

Sony has updated both its Facebook and Twitter accounts, with the image below and text that reads, “When World's Collide.” Much speculation and guessing has taken place in the hours since its release, but what do you guys think? Some have pointed to a similar looking image in the PS3 …

Microsoft is doing a lot of things with its next-generation console (though perhaps less than initially) but one of the big things, is overhauling Xbox Live and specifically, how it deals with the internet's #1 pest, the Troll. With the Xbox One's live system, gamers will be somewhat beholden to …

It was big news yesterday: Don Mattrick, the guy that had been just a few weeks before touting the virtues of Microsoft's upcoming Xbox One console, was now headed to Zynga to try and save the dilapidated Facebook game maker. The question remained however, who would replace him? Now we …

If you thought Microsoft's about face on DRM, online connectivity and game lending meant that it had fallen out of love with TV (tv, tv, tv) you'd be sorely wrong, as it's looking to introduce US Xbox 360 owners to over 300 Time Warner channels. If they pay for it. …

We've mentioned it a few times in recent months, how the current gaming landscape is the most crowded it's ever been, hardware wise. You have the PC as strong as ever and the Xbox 360 and PS3 starting to wind down but still with a big install base and plenty …

Sony might have detailed what we'll likely find in the PS4 box when it's released, but we've yet to get an official confirmation through something as hard hitting as a picture; until now. Snagged from an Amazon product listing, the following picture has the whole family of cables and accessories …

Sony released a patch earlier this week that caused a small number of PS3 owners to suddenly have a useless machine – as the main menu wouldn't appear after a reboot. Sony quickly pulled the patch but for some people it was too late. Now though, with a little bit …

Microsoft have said that the Xbox One will not have a headset in the bundle, but that the Kinect will provide the console with out of the box ‘in game chat capabilities'. Xbox Live has long been accepted by gamers as a more ‘vocally active' multiplayer platform than the Sony …

Cliff Bleszinski, or Cliffy B as he's more commonly known, used to run the show over at Epic when it came to Gears of War development. Now he's off doing other things but that doesn't mean people haven't been asking him what he thinks of the whole Xbox One debacle. Expanding …

While Microsoft and Sony have both publicly stated that their respective consoles would be available worldwide during the Christmas period this year, retailers have begun putting up release dates for both systems, suggesting something a little more concrete. German website Media Markt has listed the PS4 for a 13th November …