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HEADED BY VETERANdeveloper David Braben, Frontier marks its 20th anniversary this year. Over the past two decades it has largely made its name on casual and family titles such as Thrillville and Wallace & Gromit, plus Microsoft-published motion control games Kinectimals and Kinect Disneyland Adventures. But in 2014, Frontier is
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expected to revisit Braben’s roots with the release of Elite: Dangerous (pictured), the long-awaited fourth instalment in the pioneering space exploration series. The project raised £1.5m last year on Kickstarter but has largely been kept behind closed doors in Cambridge so far.
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THE AMBITIOUS CLOUD gaming firm was acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment back in 2012, but it’s this year that we’ll finally see the results of this titanic partnership. While Gaikai was responsible
for enabling PS4’s Remote Play, allowing Vita owners to stream their PS4 games to the handheld, it’s the newly announced PlayStation Now (pictured) that will truly show what Gaikai can do. This new cloud-based game
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ONES TO WATCH 2014
streaming service is due to launch in 2014, initially streaming PS3 games to PS4, PS3 and Vita. Sony also hopes to bring the services to Bravia Smart TVs, as well as tablets and smartphones.
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