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Assassin’s Creed Rogue will be coming to PC on March 10th, and it will be implementing a new feature: eye tracking. Last year’s forgotten AC title will be compatible with the Tobii SteelSeries Sentry Eye Tracker, which is one mouthful of a name. The device will allow you to rotate the game’s camera depending on…
Our PlayStation Vita death watch continues with fresh news out of Scotland. A Hot Deals UK poster from Glasgow spotted Sony’s ill fated portable selling for just 50 Quid ($94 CAD) at retail giant Tesco. Presumably lumped in between the week old biscuits and questionable bottles of Value Gin. Seems somebody out there wants the handheld that…
The thing about DRM is it will always get hacked, eventually. Sometimes it’s dead stupid. Just ask Keurig, who saw their attempt defeated by a piece of plastic. The purveyor of overpriced, low quality coffee launched their Keurig 2.0 brewing system last year. It features a scanner that only allows approved K-Cups to be used…
The Raspberry Pi, everyone’s favourite little project board, is getting a big upgrade. The new version, dubbed the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B+, is doubling up on processing power and memory. It now features a quad-core ARMv7 processor running at 900mhz, as well as 1GB of RAM. The organization notes that it’s about six times…
The PS4 and Xbox One may be getting 4K support this year, according to a fairly credible rumour coming from Netflix and Forbes. The popularity of 4K TVs is exploding, if this year’s showing at CES is anything to go by. The biggest roadblock, though, is content. Very few devices actually support 4K natively, and…
Rosalina has found a new home in Canada after retailer Target pooped the bed. Many gamers worried she’d disappear for store shelves. However, Nintendo has confirmed that the figure will now be available at most major video game retailers including Best Buy, Futureshop, Toys R Us, and Amazon.ca. The company is asking shoppers to contact their local…
Everybody’s favourite Swedish gamer PewDiePie isn’t impressed with Nintendo’s plan to share Let’s-Play ad revenue with YouTubers. Back in 2013, Big N had forbid YouTubers from making money off videos featuring its content. Now they’re wanting to make a concession. They’ll still take a cut of the ad revenue, but will share a portion of…
It’s no secret that 2014 was not the best of years for Sega. The company is now beginning to explore options to streamline its business operations, including reducing its workforce. In a message to shareholders, its board of directors announced that about 300 Japanese employees have been asked to voluntarily take early retirement. The company…
Millions of Americans suddenly woke up without broadband today, as the FCC voted to change the definition of high speed internet access. The regulator approved a report, in a 3-2 vote, that asked the minimum definition be changed to 25mbps, up from 4mbps. The report came to this conclusion after taking family internet usage into account….
The PlayStation Vita death watch continues. Sony announced this morning that it would be removing both the map and YouTube apps from their handheld game console. Maps and geolocation features will be disabled in a planned firmware update in March. YouTube will disappear from the PlayStation Store as of today (January 28th), while support will…