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Cult RPG game Dark Souls II has debuted at the top of the Japanese charts, the latest Famitsu sales data has revealed. Namco Bandai’s game sold 256,701 units on PS3 in its first week – that’s seven times more than its closest rival Youkai Watch on 3DS. PS4 remains the …
Read More »Chromecast arrives in the UK
UK shoppers can from today officially get their hands on the Google Chromecast. It works by plugging into the HDMI slot in your HD TV and streaming video content from either a PC running Chrome or an Android or iOS device. It doesn’t ship with a remote and is instead …
Read More »Codemasters and Namco Bandai extend distribution deal
Namco Bandai will continue distributing Codemasters games throughout 2014. The deal, which is an extension of the existing agreement, covers only Codemasters titles for 2014 released both physically and digitally in Europe, North America and South America. The sale of titles on Steam and certain other digital retailers is not …
Read More »Last few tickets remaining for next week’s PCR Awards
The PCR Awards 2014 are next week – but don’t despair, there are a small number of places still available for the PC and tech trade’s gathering. It all happens on Thursday March 13that the Royal Garden Hotel in Kensington. Single tickets are 205, and a table of ten is …
Read More »Japanese hardware market up 179.1% as PS4 arrives
The games console hardware market enjoyed a sharp year-on-year increase in Japan thanks to the launch of PS4, Famitsu has revealed. Data supplied to MCV shows that for February hardware sales were up 179.1 per cent year-on-year at 189.5m (1.11m). The software market climbed 113.8 per cent to 192.5m (1.12m). …
Read More »Dark Souls II pre-orders 50% up over original
Namco Bandai has revealed pre-orders for Dark Souls II are 50 per cent up on its predecessor. And this is before the publisher’s main ad campaign kicks in. The firm has put a massive 1m into marketing the game to a mainstream audience. We have everything going for Dark Souls …
Read More »Awesomenauts Assemble! coming to PS4 next month
2D side-scrolling MOBA Awesomenauts Assemble will launch on PS4 on March 5th. UK pricing is yet to be confirmed, but the title will cost €9.99 across Europe and $9.99 in North America. Swords & Soldiers developer Ronimo confirmed the release of the game in a blog post on behalf of …
Read More »The LEGO Movie Videogame is still No.1; Tropical Freeze sneaks into Top 10
Warner Bros The LEGO Movie Videogame is the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 for the second week in a row. Sales of the game were up seven per cent week on week with the film on which it is based also topping the UK cinema listings. The highest …
Read More »Develop Awards 2014 lobbying opens
The Develop Awards are back this July, with four new prizes up for grabs, and you can lobby to be nominated for one right now. The hugely popular industry event will once again reward the very best innovators in games development from the UK and Europe. It will be held …
Read More »Japanese Dark Souls 2 Collector’s Edition includes weapon replicas
From Software has revealed what Japanese gamers will be receiving with the Collector’s Edition of Dark Souls 2. Whereas Western gamers get a 30cm/450g Warrior Knight as the standout inclusion, in Japan the SKU comes with a latched hard case containing eight sword and shield replicas. The heaviest of the …
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