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We’re nearly two years out from the release of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, and while Activision has made it clear that those consoles (and PC) are powering the future of Call of Duty, the series hasn’t abandoned its last-gen fans. However, with this year’s Call of Duty: Black Ops III, Activision will abandon the single-player campaign for those players. The news was announced last week, with the company quietly revealing that the thematic, cinematic core of the series won’t make the cut on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. This reverses the previous announcement that said those versions would…

It’s been a while since I was this excited by gaming. Shuhei Yoshida, Sony’s President of Worldwide Studios, said this week that virtual reality was “an ultimate weapon”, and judging by what I experienced with PlayStation VR (formerly known as Project Morpheus) at the Tokyo Game Show 2015, I concur. Sure, I’ve tried the Samsung Gear VR and played games on it before, but a full console VR gaming experience beats it hands down. It’s simply amazing, and is the perfect example of what the whole experience should be like. Here’s what I gathered from my limited time with the…

Reports about Apple’s intentions to build its own electric car have built in frequency since February – and the latest one suggests that the company is pouring vast resources into making it happen as quickly as possible. According to The Wall Street Journal, sources say that Apple has marked Project Titan a “committed project” and has directed leaders to triple its team size from the current count of about 600 people. The goal? Have the electric car ready to ship in 2019. However, the report says that “shipping” in this case doesn’t necessarily mean that it’ll hit consumers at that…

Apple TV has long felt like the forgotten product in the tech giant’s line-up. Yesterday, Apple unveiled a new model that suggests it’s still intent on invading your living room even if it’s going to leave other electronics companies to make the actual screen. “The future of television is apps,” says Tim Cook, and to that end the new Apple TV has been made far more software-friendly. It boasts tvOS, a new operating system that shares a lot of features with iOS. iOS developers shouldn’t have too much trouble creating new apps for tvOS, or porting their existing apps over…

“If you see a stylus, they blew it,” said Steve Jobs in 2010. Guess what’s gone and happened five years later? Yup. Apple’s launched the iPad Pro, a huge 12.9-inch/32.9cm tablet that’s best utilised with a Smart Keyboard and Apple Pencil — a stylus by any other name. Finally, Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 has some serious competition. But should you go out and buy an iPad Pro? Here’s everything you need to know about this work-friendly tablet. 1. It’s got a huge touchscreen Although Apple has frequently touted its iPad Airs as offering a performance that’s comparable to a laptop, was…

Despite consistently putting out sleek, impressive handsets, Sony has had trouble convincing customers in the ultra-competitive smartphone market. But for its next handset, the company may have figured out how to out-premium other makers. According to a leaked hands-on video featuring a French marketing director from Sony, the Xperia Z5 Premium will indeed feature a 4K Ultra HD display, which should come in at a stunning resolution of 3840×2160. At 5.5in, that works out to a pixels per inch (ppi) count of 808ppi. Compare that to the LG G4, which comes in at 538ppi. This latest leak matches up well…

Strapping a smart wristwatch to your arm might seem like a good idea if you’re a fitness fanatic, but try glancing at your average hourly calorie burn whilst hurtling down a hair-raising hill on a road racer. You could, of course, invest in one of those dinky bike ‘computers’ which stick onto your handlebars – except they’re pretty tricky to read and notoriously unreliable. Enter, then, Canyon with its Smart Bike Computer. Cross Platform App-Eal It probably won’t win any prizes for original naming, but with a flush 1.6in LED touchscreen and sleek handlebar mount, the bike supremo’s GPS module…

When the great Mortal Kombat X released on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC in April, the promised last-gen entries were curiously missing. Warner Bros. said they’d follow at a later time, so we twiddled our thumbs and waited. But the wait is over now, and it’s not good news: the publisher has cancelled the last-gen entries after deciding they wouldn’t meet the series’ (more recent) quality standards. This decision was reached months after the game hit other platforms, and years after Mortal Kombat X began overall production. “Please know our teams worked diligently to meet the quality standards set…

Rumours. You’ve got to love rumours. Everything from the Galaxy S6 Edge+ to the as yet unannounced iPhone 6S was supposedly going to pack a 4K screen – yet none of them did. But, that might be about to change, at least according to a leak picked up on the Sony Georgia Facebook page (which has since gone missing). TANTALISING TRIPLETS Bearing in mind that the page isn’t an official one (always a good start where leaks are concerned), if the specs are true then we can expect the alleged top-end Z5, branded ‘Premium’, to be packing a whopper of…

Cliff Bleszinski (a.k.a. CliffyB) is the brash, outspoken game designer behind such hits as Gears of War and Unreal Tournament, and three years back, he decided to leave Epic Games after 20 years and try something new. That new thing is another first-person shooter. But this time it’s a free-to-play experience, focussed on five-on-five team-based play, plus an effort to move away from the streak-based perks that now define top genre entries like Call of Duty. And it’s the first game from his own studio, Boss Key Productions. LawBreakers is its name, as was revealed in a recent livestream, and…