After eight years sitting under our TVs, the Sony Playstation 3 is be about to be superseded by the PS4. …Or that’s if rumours are to be believed, anyway. So what are we actually looking at? Something pretty special, if you piece together all the rumours… Read more
Kevin Bachus, one of the four people responsible for creating the original Xbox back in 2001, has announced a move to the advisory board of cloud-based company Savtira. He’s not the only gaming god there, so what’s in store? Read more
Does that new Xbox 360 Dashboard look nice to you? Me too. Microsoft’s been very uncharacteristic, of late. It’s suddenly started to produce products that can be genuinely described as ‘attractive’, ‘enjoyable’ and ‘well thought-out’. Thanks to some talented (and presumably new) user interface designers, Microsoft’s about to see a 2012 where everything it offers is exceptionally pretty – a 2012 where it could very well claw the ‘coolness’ top spot of tech status symbols away from Apple for the first time ever. Read more
Microsoft is to open up Microsoft Live’s payments system and allow developers to set their own price bands as well as supporting micropayments within games, according to a report.
This would not only allow developers to better compete over price, but also open up Live to free-to-play/freemium games for the first time.
Happy weekend, readers. It’s catch-up time. Before heading out the door, join us for the latest bitesize news nuggets goings-on you’ve missed this week.
We’ve got an exclusive interview with the man who fired Steve Jobs, Ricky Gervais on tech, and the latest news stories you may have missed.
Fable 3 Traitor’s Keep is the latest downloadable content for the widely acclaimed Fable 3. If you’ve left your Fable 3 disc to gather cobwebs after completion, developer Lionhead Studios wants you to dust them off for this new DLC filled with new quests in which you defend your kingdom against a planned rebellion. Is Traitor’s Keep worth splashing out for? Read on for our verdict.
