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Virtual reality, indie gaming to dominate Game Developer’s Conference 2014

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Middleware, gdc-14-walkuppost-mortems on game design, and discussions on ways to improve monetization in free-to-play titles generally aren’t the sorts of things that rev up players. And, on paper, the annual Game Developer’s Conference might seem a little too ‘inside baseball’ for the average person.

But in the detail-obsessed gaming world, GDC is one of the highlights of the year. It lacks the pomp and circumstance of E3 — as well as the big game announcements, generally — but it’s one of the best ways to get a sense of where gaming is going.

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Sony raises – yes, raises – the price of the PlayStation 4 in Canada

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Typically, ps4-hrdware-large18-1console prices obey the rules of gravity: they fall. But in Canada, things are just plain loony. Er, loonie.

Sony is reportedly raising the price of the PlayStation 4 by $50 in the country. DualShock 4 controller and PlayStation Camera prices are also on the rise, each climbing $5.

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Report details biggest problems with next generation consoles

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Everyone’s Sony Launches PlayStation 4 In Japan As Console Retakes U.S. Retail Lead Over Microsoft's Xbox Onea critic. And when the subject is next generation consoles, they’re especially ferocious.

Sometimes that’s legitimate. Sometimes, it’s user error. (And sometimes, it’s an odd mix of both.) Fixya has dug through over 40,000 complaints to determine the most common problems with each of the new machines on the market.

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Renowned Xbox gamer becomes the first to reach 1 million Achievement points

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It took eight years and three months, but insatiable gamer Raymond Cox has finally done what he set out to do: reach the unthinkable Xbox Live Gamerscore of 1 million.

Cox, who goes by the username Stallion83, hit the milestone late last night after finishing a game of Titanfall. It was a momentous achievement, but hardly the first for him.

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Study: Chimpanzee is better at games than young kids

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You chimpmay think your kindergartner is pretty proficient at Mario or Angry Birds, but we’ve got some sobering news. Your kid can’t hold a candle to Cheetah.

A study in the American Journal of Primatology finds that chimpanzees are actually better at games than the average 3-6 year old.

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Taking a spin with a real-world Mario Kart

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The marioKart8game might be named after him, but there was no way I was going to let Mario win this race. After all, this is apparently still the year of Luigi.

That sort of competitive thinking generally goes through my mind whenever I play Mario Kart on a couch, but when you’re sitting in a real Kart with real speed boosts and obstacles, it’s only amplified.

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Tomb Raider sales near 6 million

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It tomb-raider-salestook a while, but Lara Croft’s rebirth is finally paying off.

Publisher Square Enix has announced that cumulative sales of last year’s acclaimed reboot of the iconic series are closing in on 6 million units. The company says that puts the game on track to become the best-selling Lara Croft game of all time.

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Disney Interactive lays off 700

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Disney’s disney-interactive-layoffsoft-troubled video game and internet division is laying off approximately 25% of its workforce.

Disney Interactive announced plans to cut 700 jobs on Thursday. The move comes as part of yet another restructuring, which will (once again) shift its focus to mobile games.

Game output at the division will be cut in half as a result of the moves.

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Is the Xbox One in trouble?

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Roughly microsoft-xbox-one2three months after the Xbox One hit stores, its price was cut.

On February 24, Microsoft lowered the retail price of its next generation console in the UK from £429.99 to £399.99, the equivalent of a $50 price cut in the U.S. At the same time, the company unveiled an upcoming Titanfall bundle in both regions, which includes a copy of the system’s most anticipated game at no additional charge.

The bundling of such a big game raised some eyebrows, but the UK cut really set gaming forums ablaze. Was Microsoft acknowledging weakness in Xbox One sales? Was it “pulling a Nintendo” to remain competitive? Was the company throwing in the towel?

Not at all, but it’s clear the company — and its flagship console — have their work cut out for them.

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