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Sony raises monthly price of PlayStation Vue TV service
Access, Core, Elite and Ultra packages will all cost an extra $5 a month starting in August
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Bethesda: "Sony is not as helpful as everyone would like" on cross-play
There will be no cross-play in Fallout 76, Todd Howard says - and Microsoft is not the problem
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Frostpunk picks up Best Game at BIG Festival Awards
11 bit Studios' celebrated RTS takes the main honour at Brazil's leading indie game festival
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Avalanche Studios finds the line between AAA and independence
Following its acquisition by Nordisk Film and a fine showing at E3, the 15 year-old Swedish studio has an even brighter future ahead
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Mario Tennis Aces claims top spot in the UK retail chart
Switch exclusive is one of eight games in the top 40 on Nintendo's platform
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HTC gives 110 Vive headsets to US libraries
A curated selection of 35 educational apps will be supplied for the libraries in California and Nevada
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Inkle starts a bold new chapter with Heaven's Vault
The British studio is taking a step beyond the interactive fiction of 80 Days into a fully realised visual world
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TinyTap raises $5m for user-generated educational games
Aleph VC fund backs Israeli startup, which already has 150,000 teacher-created games on its platform
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Gamurs esports media network raises $2.2 million
Alium Capital and angel investors bring Gamurs' lifetime funding to $5.7 million
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E3 2018: Microsoft finally comes out of its "self-imposed damage control position"
Industry analysts on Sony's muted E3 briefing, and why it's too soon to know if Microsoft's studio acquisitions will be proved "smart or dumb"
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Owner of fake Kaz Hirai Twitter account bows out with charity drive
Mark Doherty amassed 130k followers by satirising Sony's former CEO, will raise money for SpecialEffect as final gesture
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Valve continues its fight against "fake games" on Steam
Games that haven't reached Steam's "confidence metric" will be restricted from user achievements and game counts
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PUBG Corp. defends the use of asset stores as the only way to "work smart"
PUBG is no "asset flip", says PUBG Corp., but store-bought assets are necessary when building maps
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Sea of Thieves hit three month target in a single day
Xbox Game Pass helped Rare to smash launch expectations
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Streaming could be key to Xbox reclaiming the lead from PlayStation
Industry analysts see Microsoft as well positioned to be the leader in game streaming, in a way that Sony will struggle to emulate
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HitRecord "has to draw a line somewhere" on payment for Beyond Good & Evil assets
Only work used in the game will be compensated, says founder Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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Xbox and Nintendo speak out against Fortnite PS4 stalemate
Phil Spencer and Reggie Fils-Aime both want their customers to play with and across other consoles
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Naughty Dog marks The Last of Us' fifth birthday with 17m copies sold
Combined sales of The Last of Us and the Uncharted series are now pushing 60 million units
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Bethesda to raise money for charity by selling Fallout 76 trailer song
Proceeds from new version of John Denver's Country Roads will go to Habitat for Humanity
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PlayStation 4 owners can't access Fortnite accounts on Switch
Update: Sony issues response, side-steps complaints around lack of cross-play and inability to access saved progress
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Nintendo: Loot boxes "have gotten a bit of a bad rap"
Reggie Fils-Aime says loot boxes "can be interesting" as long as players have other options
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Netflix and Telltale partner on Minecraft TV show, Stranger Things game
Minecraft: Story Mode will be an interactive five-episode series, but Netflix doesn't have "any plans to get into gaming"
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Valve to challenge Discord with overhauled Steam Chat
Friends lists, group chat and voice chat receive a raft of new features
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Steam deprecating support for Windows Vista and XP
Support for Microsoft's operating systems will officially end on January 2, 2019
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Fortnite to launch for Nintendo Switch today
Epic's battle royale shooter will be free to everyone, and is now on every major gaming platform