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BBC will not drop HD DVD

It looks like BBC is planing to continue releasing on both HD DVD and Blu-ray. BBC Video is released under Warner Bros. and it was believed that they would follow WB and go Blu-ray exclusive.

whoelse6617d ago

being the BBC, they let other companies and consumers decide and probably wont jump until the last minute before the ship sinks.

decapitator6617d ago (Edited 6617d ago )

Yeah but they are also just prolonging the war. Toshiba along with it's supporters are in a pretty bad situation as it stands right now. It would be smart to wave a white flag before they go down in shame.

Either way, format war needs to end if it hasn't already done so.

EDIT: BBC are making great profits from each sides as of right now so they see no reason why they would want to drop them. But for how long though ?

mikeslemonade6617d ago

Planet Earth sold as much if not better on HD-DVD than Blu-ray.

monks6617d ago

i dont think they care either way and this is the way the BBC has always been hear in the UK because they are a public funded company

Lucreto6617d ago

Warner publish BBC content so unless they change that they may support HD-DVD but their work will be out on Blu-ray.

wallace10006617d ago (Edited 6617d ago )

For the record i think Planet Earth is great. BBC are probably happy selling on both formats right now. I don't think they will jump ship until they have too because they don't offer a huge selection of titles in HD or Blu.

gameforall6617d ago (Edited 6617d ago )

so cannot exclude one format. Look at it's iPlayer which was original Windows only, but had to be made compatible for Mac and Linux.

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Mobile revenue remained flat across 2025, but PC gaming "sees another record year"

Digital intelligence and analytics firm Sensor Tower has released its State of Gaming 2026 report, revealing flat growth in mobile game revenue, double-digit growth for PC and console gaming, and another record year for PC, with more games sold on Steam than ever before.

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Metacritic Removes Resident Evil 9 Review From Fake AI Writer

Kotaku writes: "A Resident Evil Requiem review published by long-standing UK gaming news site Videogamer has been removed from Metacritic after readers pointed out it was written by a fake AI journalist who doesn’t actually exist. Videogamer‘s human masthead was gutted last week, sources tell Kotaku, and the site has been publishing apparent genAI slop ever since."

1nsomniac1d 10h ago (Edited 1d 10h ago )

Genuinely well done on metacritic for taking such an immediate hard stance. Not often, if at all, you see that these days. Credit where it’s due.

Eonjay1d 9h ago (Edited 1d 9h ago )

This is really sad on so many levels. Not least of all the fact that all the human lost their jobs to a language model. Can we block all content coming from Videogamer site. Can we make a rule that content sumitted to N4G must be greated by a human being.

I'm gonna report every Videogamer article I see on N4G from now on so just putting it out there.

Christopher1d 7h ago

N4G doesn't allow AI-generated content. Please report as you see necessary.

Mr_cheese1d ago

Isnt videogamer one of the N4G owner run sites?

Seems to fit their MO to cut corners and push cheap dribble.

Christopher17h ago

Check the last time one of their articles was added to the site.

OMGitzThatGuy14h ago

Check my comments, over a year ago I was calling out videogamer and N4G on their AI articles pushing slop 24/7

Christopher13h ago

I can confirm that those older articles were not AI, just not great.

TheColbertinator1d 7h ago

It is amazing but I'm starting to slightly miss the moron gaming press we had in the 2010s because at least they were human.

MrDead17h ago(Edited 17h ago)

It was "written" by Asha Sharma I hear.

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UK ad regulator issues Enforcement Notice targeting loot boxes

Game and advertising companies have been told to 'get their houses in order' and be more transparent about the presence of loot boxes in mobile titles.

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