Deus Ex: Mankind Divided’s controversial Augment Your Pre-Order program has been scrapped. The news comes by way of a post on the game’s official website. A “resounding amount of negative feedback” has been given as the reason for cancellation. (Also see: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Release Date, Pre-Order Bonuses Announced) “When it was first conceived, we wanted the program to give you more choice about what you received in terms of pre-order incentives – because we’ve seen in the past that when we choose those packages ourselves, and split them across regions, it has caused frustration,” the post reads. One…
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In May, Nvidia revealed that its GeForce Grid streaming service would be capable of delivering the latest and greatest video games at a resolution of 1080p and at a fluid 60 frames per second – the gold standard for many a gamer on console and PC. At the time the service was free to use and had around 35 games. The company stated that it would unveil a premium paid option in the coming months. Now, it appears to have just done that. (Also see: Nvidia Shield Tablet Recalled Due to Battery Concerns) Dubbed GeForce Now, it comes at a…
Microsoft Corp and Google Inc have agreed to bury all patent infringement litigation against each other, the companies announced on Wednesday, settling 18 cases in the United States and Germany. In another sign of the winding down of the global smartphone wars, the companies said the deal puts an end to court fights involving a variety of technologies, including mobile phones, wi-fi, and patents used in Microsoft’s Xbox game consoles and other Windows products. The agreement also drops all litigation involving Motorola Mobility, which Google sold to Lenovo Group Ltd last year while keeping its patents. However, as Microsoft and…
Compared to the PlayStation Portable (PSP), the PlayStation Vita has been met with a tepid response by the general public. Sure there are some diehard fans of Sony’s sophomore handheld effort, but it’s glaringly obvious that the sales aren’t what they should be. So much so, that Shuhei Yoshida, President of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios, let it slip that you shouldn’t expect a successor to the PS Vita any time soon. “That’s a tough question,” he said when asked about a PlayStation Vita 2 at the Eurogamer Expo (EGX 2015). “People have mobile phones and it’s so easy to…
The latest PlayStation 4 system software update 3.0, codenamed Kenshin, is finally out this week. Sony announced the news on its blog. “The 3.00 system software update on PS4, codename: Kenshin, will be available to download starting tomorrow, September 30th,” said John Koller, Vice President of Platforms Marketing at Sony Computer Entertainment America. “This update is focused on creating new ways to connect with friends and players around the world, expanding the social capabilities of the system even further.” Earlier in the year, Sony allowed for data backups to external hard drives and automatic installation of updates to the PS4…
Scientists have developed a new technique to improve the efficiency of traditional lightbulbs by recycling the waste energy and focusing it back on the filament where it is re-emitted as visible light. Incandescent lightbulbs produce light by using electricity to heat a thin, tungsten wire filament to temperatures of around 2,700 degrees Celsius. This causes the filament to glow and produce a broad spectrum, warm white light. However, lightbulbs of this type are hugely inefficient – they only convert around 2-3 per cent of the energy they use into light – the rest is wasted as heat. Researchers at Massachusetts…
It seems the modding community of Grand Theft Auto V keeps outdoing itself again and again. A new mod out of Brazil that was released on Saturday has brought quite a few elements of Ubisoft’s 2014 third-person open-world game Watch Dogs to Rockstar’s own open world adventure. From bringing Earth’s largest mammal – the blue whale – to the city of Los Santos as a non-parachuting skydiver to the arrival of a Reaper vessel in GTA V’s skies straight from Mass Effect, the latest game from Scotland-based developers has seen all sorts of user-based changes since its arrival on Windows…
The head of Xbox India, Anshu Mor, has moved on. This news comes via his Twitter account. “Celebrating my last week at Microsoft India. An end of a fantastic 11yrs journey. Moving on to start my own company,” he tweeted on Monday. Mor, whose official title was Director – Interactive Entertainment Business, was responsible for launching Kinect for the Xbox 360 and the Xbox One in India as well. He was also behind the divisive move of making the Xbox One available on Amazon India exclusively. (Also see: Xbox One Dominates the US With Black Friday Deals, Gets Dominated in…
Netflix and DreamWorks Animation announced Tuesday they are expanding a partnership to distribute original TV series, old and new, in markets around the world, except China. The two companies first struck a deal in 2011 covering the distribution of DreamWorks Animation features, which was then expanded in 2013 to include original programs inspired by some of the studio’s most popular animated creations. The latest extension gives Netflix rights to a number of new original series for kids from DreamWorks Animation in all markets in which it currently operates, with the exception of China. It also gives Netflix streaming rights to…
Airtel is pushing big on content. After aggressively getting into music and movie streaming businesses with Wynk Music and Wynk Movies, the mobile carrier on Tuesday announced the launch of Wynk Games. The app is currently in the beta phase and offers a library of over 2,000 global and local games across genres. Wynk Games, which is available for download on Android smartphones and tablets from company’s website, serves as a platform for hosting games from several popular game houses including Reliance Big Entertainment, Hungama, Square Enix, Zeptolab, Thumbstar, Tresensa, Bulkypix, and Nautilus Mobile. Some of the popular titles include…