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Grand Theft Auto V and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt headline Steam’s latest top ten selling products chart. GTA V finished on top for yet another week, but The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s apparent success is nothing to scoff at. The standard edition finished up in the runner-up spot, while …
Read More »GTA V on PC drives digital revenue in US, according to Superdata
Superdata has released its latest monthly report on US digital game revenue, with the market showing year-over-year growth thanks to Grand Theft Auto V’s PC release. US digital revenue in April was up 15 per cent to $1.1bn, with Superdata crediting Take-Two and Rockstar’s PC port for driving the strong …
Read More »Consoles will control less than half of the UK games market this year
The success of PS4 and Xbox One hasn’t managed to beat back mobile’s growing dominance of the games market, says research firm Newzoo. The company estimates that console’s revenue share of the UK games industry will fall below 50 per cent for the first time ever this year, dropping to …
Read More »Nintendo World Championships return for E3 2015
The Nintendo World Championships – last held in 1990 – will be making a comeback at E3 2015, Nintendo of America has announced. The company revealed the news as part of its E3 plans. Nintendo fans can compete for a spot in the Championships on May 30th at select Best …
Read More »Former BioShock devs shelve The Black Glove
The surreal first-person adventure from some of the creative minds behind BioShock has been temporarily canned. The Black Glove, a new title from Day For Night Games, was being developed by a team offormer Irrational Games staff. The studio set up aKickstarter campaignto fund the title, but it wasunsuccessful. We’ve …
Read More »Castlevania dev’s new Kickstarter doubles $500,000 goal on first day
Castlevania developer Koji Igarashi went to Kickstarter less than 24 hours ago looking for $500,000 to fund his new title, the campaign currently has over $1m pledged with no sign of slowing. At time of publication, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night has garnered more than 15,000 backers – meaning the …
Read More »Iwata reiterates Nintendo NX no-show at E3
Nintendo remains adamant that it will not be announcing any news about the in-development NX console at E3 next month. The message is no different to that given by boss Satoru Iwata when the machine was first announced, when he said that we shouldn’t expect any more information until 2016. …
Read More »Nintendo abandons plans to release consoles in China, report claims
Wii U and 3DS platform holder Nintendo will not follow Sony and Microsoft into the Chinese market, it has been claimed. Tokyo based games consultant Serkan Toto has said Nikkei has reported that Nintendo will not execute prior plan to manufacture consoles for the Chinese market”. A year ago Nintendo …
Read More »Iwata ‘optimistic’ that Nintendo NX will be region free
The still mysterious Nintendo NX could be the first home console from the company to be region free. Removing region-locking from current game machines presents various issues, so we don’t consider that to be very realistic,” Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata told investors, as per a translation on Neogaf. However, regarding …
Read More »This is how Nintendo hopes to grow 3DS and Wii U sales
While Nintendo’s return to profitthis week was welcome, the fact that both 3DS and Wii U missed sales targets was most certainly not. To address the issue Nintendo has identified two strategies – women and DLC. Four years since its release, we are seeing a certain level of positive results …
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