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July 13th, 2015, 21:57 Posted By: wraggster
After two weeks at No.1, Warner Bros’ Batman: Arkham Knight is pushed to second place by Codemasters’ F1 2015.
Week one sales of F1 2015 are 367 per cent higher than last year’s entry in the racing series as the series debuts on the PS4 and Xbox One consoles.
Sales of Arkham Knight, meanwhile, are down 54 per cent week-on-week, but it charts ahead of fellow Warner Bros title LEGO Jurassic World.
Towards the bottom of the Top Ten, both console editions of Minecraft saw sales increases this week. The Xbox Edition rose six per cent, while the PlayStation SKUS saw a 12 per cent rise. This is likely due to the excitement following last week’s Minecon at London Excel.
And as the summer period gets into full swing, a few games are helped by retail promotions. Disney Infinity 2.0 sales increase 59 per cent this week thanks to price activity, and the toys-to-life title rises from No.26 to No.13.
Below is the software Top Ten for the week ending July 11th:
1. F1 2015 (Codemasters/Bandai Namco)
2. Batman: Arkham Knight (Warner Bros)
3. LEGO Jurassic World (Warner Bros)
4. The Elder Scrolls Online (Bethesda)
5. Grand Theft Auto V (Rockstar)
6. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt RED/Bandai Namco)
7. Minecraft: Xbox Edition (Microsoft)
8. Minecraft: PlayStation Edition (Sony)
9. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Activision Blizzard)
10. Destiny (Activision Blizzard)
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/f1-20...charts/0152526
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July 13th, 2015, 21:54 Posted By: wraggster
Virtual reality company Oculus is funding development of “about two dozen” virtual reality games via its Oculus Studios program.
“We have a pretty big investment into Oculus Studios’ triple-A, high production value games,” Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe told Gamasutra. “Oculus VR is a gaming-built, owned and operated company. We’re developers at heart.”
Apparently the projects are a mixture of games that were pitched to the company and games that Oculus itself has conceived and approached a development partner to make. The company has also invested in a number of non-exclusive VR titles and established a $10m indie developer fund.
Iribe also moved to quell concerns that the company’s acquisition at the hands of Facebook has forced away from pure game development and toward broader entertainment output.
While the company has diversified into a wider range of entertainment products, Iribe reiterated that games remain the primary focus and that the company was built and is staffed by game developers.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/oculu...-games/0152533
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July 12th, 2015, 14:50 Posted By: wraggster
Batman and LEGO have helped Warner Bros rise to the top of the publisher rankings once again, according to GfK Chart-Track.
The firm published 27.6 per cent of the physical games sold in June with Batman: Arkham Knight at No.1 and LEGO Jurassic Park at No.3.
In second place is Bethesda, which saw its market share rise on the back of The Elder Scrolls Online (last month’s No.2 games). In total 1.72m games were sold last month, down from the 2m shifted in June 2014. Last year’s June numbers benefitted from the launch of Watch Dogs in late May.
Below is the Top Ten for June:
1. Batman: Arkham Knight, Warner Bros
2. The Elder Scrolls Online, Bethesda
3. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Bandai Namco
4. LEGO Jurassic World, Warner Bros
5. Grand Theft Auto V, Rockstar
6. FIFA 15, EA
7. Splatoon, Nintendo
8. Battlefield Hardline, EA
9. Faming Simulator, Koch Media
10. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Activision Blizzard
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July 12th, 2015, 14:47 Posted By: wraggster
Thousands upon thousands of young people – decked out in branded t-shirts – swarmed around a sold-out Wembley Arena in April this year.
But they weren’t there to see Taylor Swift or Fall Out Boy, these music lovers were queuing up to witness the London Philharmonic Orchestra perform classic songs from The Legend of Zelda video games.
“Video games, to me, represent the highest level of artistic talent, even more than films,” insists Jason Michael Paul, the man in charge of pulling The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses together.
“These musical scores are being performed by some of the best orchestras in the world, and acceptance by music fans is becoming more common.”
According to The Official Charts Company, video game soundtracks generated £223,000 in the UK last year, which is a relatively miniscule figure but a growing one.
Yet that number only tells part of the story. Last April’s gig was the third time the Zelda concert has toured the UK in the last four years, while a rival event – Video Games Live – has just sold out of three shows in Germany for the beginning of next month.
Meanwhile, anyone who attended Paul McCartney’s recent gigs in the UK may have been surprised to see the song he wrote for the Destiny soundtrack receive a full airing. Video game music has always been popular, but never before have we seen it infiltrate mainstream culture so frequently.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/video...estras/0152430
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July 12th, 2015, 14:43 Posted By: wraggster
As the audience for gaming video content nears half a billion people, a new report has highlighted live streaming’s quick rise to the top.
468 million viewers around the world now digest games-related video content such as walkthroughs, trailers and live streams, according to research firm SuperData’s Gaming Video Content Market Brief 2015.
The majority of these (seven in 10) check out game trailers, with two-thirds of self-proclaimed ‘hardcore’ gamers watching live streams and a third of the same hardcore audience viewing eSports.
All in all, the gaming video market is said to be worth an estimated $3.8 billion. More than three quarters of this, $2.9 billion, is brought in by advertising and sponsorships, with content creators seeing a collective $890 million of the cash.
The news comes days after it was revealed that prominent YouTuber Felix ‘PewDiePie’ Kjellberg haddoubled his earnings over the last year, reeling in $7.45 million during 2014.
Kjellberg is a rarity among his YouTube peers, however, as SuperData believes newly-Amazon-owned live streaming platform Twitch generates more games video revenue than Google’s video service, primarily thanks to the drive for subscriptions and donations on the former.
Despite this, YouTube remains the bigger outlet for gaming video, drawing more viewers in total. Only 10 per cent of viewers visit what SuperData refers to as ‘new video platforms’.
The streaming audience is invested, however – almost half (44 per cent) of viewers pay for subscriptions, spending around $21 monthly on paid content and donating $4.64 on average to streaming personalities each month.
SuperData adds its expectation that the number of players watching gaming video content online will rocket to 790 million by 2018.
Unsurprisingly, North America leads the way when it comes to video content, expected to bring in $1.49 billion this year. Europe is second-biggest, with a $1.14 billion market size. Asia sit at third with a sector roughly half that of the US – $701 million.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/gamin...outube/0152314
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July 12th, 2015, 14:34 Posted By: wraggster
<center style='font: 18px/27px "Segoe UI", proxima-nova, proxima-nova-1, proxima-nova-2, "Proxima Nova", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; display: block; white-space: normal; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;'> </center>A recent exploratory study conducted by Time has found that 47 percent of middle-school and 61 percent of high-school-aged boys believe that female characters in video games are too often treated as sex objects. The survey was conducted to examine issues of sexism in video games and asked over 1,400 students about their feelings surrounding how women are depicted in the medium. What's more, 70 percent of girls surveyed said that the gender of a protagonist doesn't factor into them playing a game while a surprising 78percent of boys said the same. And 58 percent of boys who identified as gamers think there should be more female heroes in game, like Bayonetta up above, for example. Oh, and reassuringly "very few" of the respondents knew what Gamergate was. Phew.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/09/g...gender-survey/
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July 12th, 2015, 14:31 Posted By: wraggster
If you thought wearing a Google Glass headset was awkward, things could get even weirder. The Mountain View company was awarded a patent this week for tech that enables a Glass-like head-mounted display to automatically take pictures when it recognizes your fingers. Specifically, it snaps a pic when you make one of those finger frames like you've seen movie directors use. The patent document also explains that the device can change the orientation of the image based on the positioning of your hands. For example, if you made a circular "O" shape with one hand, you'd end up with a round picture. And the same goes for using two hands to frame a rectangular portrait.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/09/g...rame-pictures/
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July 12th, 2015, 14:20 Posted By: wraggster
If you're eager to try on HTC's Vive VR headset, which blew us away back at Mobile World Congress, you may soon have your chance. HTC just announceda world tour for the Vive, starting this week at San Diego Comic-Con, stretching all the way into the Paris Games Week in November. You can check out a full list of cities and dates below, but take note that they're subject to change. The Vive, developed together with Valve, is a VR headset similar to the Oculus Rift, but it also includes some positional laser sensors which can track your movement around a room. It was so immersive it made Engadget's Nicole Leea believer in VR. Our only issue with this news? We're noticing a distinct lack of East Coast dates. New York City wants to see the Vive already, HTC!
http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/10/h...vr-world-tour/
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July 12th, 2015, 14:12 Posted By: wraggster
Disney World broke ground in virtual reality when it launched its DisneyQuest "interactive theme park" back in 1998. To say that times have changed would be an understatement, though -- DQ is using primitive VR technology that makes even Google Cardboard look like a quantum leap. Appropriately, the company now plans to close DisneyQuest in 2016 and replace it with an NBA-themed attraction. The exact reasons for the shutdown aren't clear, but it's likely a combination of the less-than-impressive technology with mounting support costs. At one point this spring, most of the attractions weren't working -- it's hard to imagine Disney pouring lots of money into hardware that's more likely to make you yawn than gasp in awe. You might feel nostalgic if you have fond memories of visiting DisneyQuest as a kid, but it's hard to mourn the loss when you can have a much nicer experience at home.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/11/d...vr-attraction/
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July 8th, 2015, 22:16 Posted By: wraggster
Back in the 1980s the BBC Micro spawned a whole generation of bedroom coders. The aim of the project was to provide a rugged, simple to use computer that was cheap enough for most schools to own at least one. The Micro was a huge success, with 80 per cent of state schools buying one of the machines, introducing many children to programming for the first time.
The BBC is trying to do something similar with the BBC Micro Bit. The organisation is giving away a Raspberry Pi-like micro computer to every Year 7 child in the UK. The Micro Bit's main feature is a panel of 25 LEDs which can be programmed to light up in animated patterns. The BBC has now revealed the full specifications of the micro computer and it's a little bit awesome.
Along with its LED panel, the Micro Bit has an accelerometer, compass, and Bluetooth transmitter. It also has two on-board buttons and a micro USB port.
In theory, this means that you can use the Micro Bit as a simple two-button game controller, one that you can connect to a device either by USB or with Bluetooth. You could also program a game where you control it by shaking the Micro Bit.
The BBC is putting together a full set of tutorials and lesson plans that will launch with the Micro Bit in October.
“It’s an entry-level device that will enable kids to code and program, and if they enjoy that, clearly they’ll move on to devices like the Arduino and the Raspberry Pi,” industry verteran Ian Livingstone told the Guardian.
You could connect the Micro Bit to a Raspberry Pi and use it as a controller, light up score board, or any number of canny things.
The first prototype of the Micro Bit had a built in watch battery making it easy for the device to be pinned to your clothes. Unfortunately, the BBC worried that someone might end up swallowing the battery so it's now powered by a separate AAA battery pack but that can be discretely hidden away.
For those of us who aren't in Year 7, the Micro Bit will go on sale at the end of the year. I, for one, am definitely going to pick on up. The idea of being able to code a little piece of hardware makes me feel all tingly inside.
http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2015/07/08/t...micro-computer
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July 8th, 2015, 22:12 Posted By: wraggster
YouTube has announced the top 10 “trending” games on its network for June, with Batman: Arkham Knight claiming first place.
The game finished ahead of Lego Jurassic World – undoubtedly enjoying the runner-up spot thanks to the popularity of the non-Lego major motion picture – and Fallout 4.
Warner Bros also scored a second Lego title in the top five for the period, with Lego Worlds finishing fifth behind Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.
Different from NewZoo's montly Top Game Franchises on YouTube chart, YouTube's “trending” games are determined through a combination of number of video uploads and watchtime.
Here's the full list:
- Batman: Arkham Knight
- Lego Jurassic World
- Fallout 4
- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
- Lego Worlds
- The Elder Scrolls Online
- Skylanders: SuperChargers
- Star Wars Battlefront
- Final Fantasy VII
- Heroes of the Storm
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/youtu...r-june/0152294
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July 8th, 2015, 22:08 Posted By: wraggster
The latest Fire Emblem title for 3DS has remained at the number spot in Japan, with returning Top Ten entry Splatoon seeing resilient sales figures.
Fire Emblem Fates’ two SKUs – White Kingdom and Black Kingdom – easily spot to the top of the retail charts the week previous, shifting over 350,000 units, according to the latest data from Famitsu.
This number fell to just above 71,000 last week, which was still far more than enough to see it through to a second chart-topping performance.
Helped by the 3DS title’s success, the New Nintendo 3DS XL remained at the top of the hardware rankings, selling over 23,000 units.
Meanwhile, Persona 4: Dancing All Night, which propelled Vita sales in its debut week, slipped two spaces to fourth as sales dropped by almost 90 per cent to just shy of 11 per cent.
This opened the hardware charts back up, allowing the bigger sibling of Sony’s Vita to creep back up to second place and Nintendo’s Wii U to ride its slipstream to third.
Back in the software charts, returning Top Ten presence Splatoon held on well for a second week back in the Top Five, rising to third in lieu of Dancing All Night. Sales of the squid-based shooter were resilient, dropping by a mere 7,000 units.
Meanwhile, the greatest hits title for the Rhythm Heaven franchise, The Best+, jumped up to second place, despite sales dropping by around 20,000 units.
Here is the software Top Ten for the week ending July 5th:
- Fire Emblem Fates: White Kingdom / Black Kingdom (Nintendo) 3D – 71,550
- Rhythm Heaven: The Best+ (Nintendo) 3DS – 32,580
- Splatoon (Nintendo) Wii U – 31,494
- Persona 4: Dancing All Night (Atlus) Vita – 10,614
- Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition (Sony) Vita –10,411
- Mario Kart 8 (Nintendo) Wii U – 9,110
- Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butoden (Bandai Namco) 3DS – 7,573
- Tobidase Dobutsu no Mori (Animal Crossing: New Leaf) (Nintendo) 3DS – 5,918
- Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition (Capcom) PS4 – 4,946
- Return to PoPoLoCrois: A Story of Seasons Fairytale (Marvelous) 3DS – 4,882
And here are the hardware rankings:
- New Nintendo 3DS XL – 20,312
- PS4 – 15,182
- Wii U – 14,406
- PS Vita – 14,024
- New Nintendo 3DS – 4,685
- PS3 – 2,765
- Nintendo 3DS – 1,022
- Nintendo 3DS XL – 913
- PS Vita TV – 652
- Xbox One – 166
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July 6th, 2015, 21:12 Posted By: wraggster
Weekly music magazine NME is to become free in September, with video games joining a number of new topics being introduced to its pages.
The switch will see 300k copies of the magazine handed out at stations, universities and retailers each week. The magazine’s circulation fro the latter half of 2014 stood at just under 14k, a decline of 23 per cent year-on-year.
NME says that while music is "firmly at the heart of the brand" other subjects including "film, fashion, television, politics, gaming and technology" will also begin to feature. Its website will also undergo a revamp.
“For the past few months we’ve been working in secret here at NME on the next phase of our evolution,” editor Mike Williams said. “The goal, throughout all of our research and development, has been to find new and inventive ways to connect with you, our audience, better than ever.
“In the 63 years since NME launched we have evolved and transformed plenty of times. The evolution of 2015 is our boldest ever move, and I’m delighted to be able to share the news with you at last."
Time UK chief executive Marcus Rich added: “This famous 63-year-old brand was an early leader in digital and has been growing its global audience successfully for the best part of 20 years. It has been able to do so because music is such an important passion and now is the right time to invest in bringing NME to an even bigger community for our commercial partners.”
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/nme-t...s-free/0152209
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July 4th, 2015, 23:12 Posted By: wraggster
In a guest article published to Road to VR, Nvidia graphics programmer Nathan Reed details Nvidia's 'Gameworks VR' initiative which the company says is designed to boost virtual reality render performance, including support for 'VR SLI' which will render one eye view per GPU for low latency stereoscopy. While many Gameworks VR features will be supported as far back as GeForce 6xx cards, the company's latest 'Maxwell' (9xx and Titan X) GPUs offer 'Multi-projection' which Reed says, 'enables us to very efficiently rasterize geometry into multiple viewports within a single render target at once... This better approximates the shading rate of the warped image that will eventually be displayed—in other words, it avoids rendering a ton of extra pixels that weren't going to make it to the display anyway, and gives you a substantial performance boost for no perceptible reduction in image quality.'
http://developers.slashdot.org/story...er-performance
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July 4th, 2015, 22:25 Posted By: wraggster
Next-gen console fever has yet to infect Chinese gamers, it seems.
Games Industry reports that numbers from analyst Niko Partners suggest that between them PS4 and Xbox One will by the end of the year reach a combined unit sales number of just 550k.
The Chinese government lifted the ban on sales of foreign games consoles in January 2014, although a strict set of rules closely controls what content can and cannot be released for such devices. Xbox One arrived in the region in September 2014 and the PS4 in March of this year.
Both machines (Xbox and PlayStation) were subject to delays prior to their arrival, however. Nintendo has reportedly abandoned its own plans to follow its rival into the region.
The best hope of an improvement to the current struggles, Niko says, is for the cost of the hardware to be lowered and for China’s cultural office to approve more triple-A games for release.
The best numbers, it says, will come from the set-top box and Smart TV sector, which it predicts will overtake consoles by 2019 thanks to its lower cost barrier and more family-orientated software offer. It predicts that combined the two sectors could generate revenues of $654m by the end of the year and climb to $3bn by 2019.
"Despite China being a predominantly PC online gaming culture, Chinese who are now 26-35 years old grew up in the days of Nintendo Super Famicom consoles and are accustomed to playing games with a controller via a TV,” Niko MD Lisa Cosmas Hanson said.
“These gamers will drive adoption of games played on Smart TVs as well as the use of game consoles, and thus will begin the transformation of the living room to entertainment centre."
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/chine...t-says/0152070
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July 4th, 2015, 22:03 Posted By: wraggster
Oh, the irony. Disgraced former senator Leland Yee has pleaded guilty to charges of taking bribes in exchange for votes, racketeering and promising to smuggle guns into the US from the Philippines. Of course, like so many beautiful twists of fate, Yee was a prominent moral crusader who led a campaign against violent video games. The senator authored AB-1179, legislation that would have outlawed the sale of said titles to California's teens, which was defeated by the Supreme Court. Way to keep our kids safe, Leels.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/03/l...pleads-guilty/
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July 4th, 2015, 21:52 Posted By: wraggster
Before a company announces a device, it has to pass through the FCC's secretive bunker to ensure that it's wireless radios are safe for human contact.Droid Life has trawled through the most recent list of anonymized gadgets to find A4R-GG1, a Google-hewn offering that might, just possibly, be the new version of Google Glass. The clues aren't exactly concrete, but include the fact that the hardware isn't classified as a smartphone, tablet or media device. It's equipped with 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac dual-band WiFi, Bluetooth LE and a built-in rechargeable battery, so clearly it's also meant to be taken around with you.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/03/google-gg1-fcc/
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July 4th, 2015, 21:50 Posted By: wraggster
Well, this is one way for an up-and-coming company to get people's attention. OnePlus, the Chinese manufacturer best-known for making a cheap handsetwith surprisingly good specs, is about to launch its second-generation phone, and to get folks pumped up, it's selling a modified version of Google'sCardboard virtual reality headset. Make that: "giving away." The headset is free, plus a $5 shipping charge, making it a great deal, even for what's already marketed as a cheap way to experience VR. All told, it's very similar to thesecond-gen version of Cardboard unveiled at Google I/O a month ago, except this particular iteration is made of a thicker material, is 20 percent smaller and is coated in a dirt- and oil-resistant film, according to TechCrunch.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/03/o...plus-shipping/
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