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Ahead of its release on November 18th, the review embargo on Nintendo’s Wii title The Legends of Zelda: Skyward Sword has lifted. And as has become customary in recent weeks, yes, it looks like we have another absolute belter on our hands. If you own a Wii, do we even …
Read More »OnLive challenges studios to ‘blow our minds’
OnLive wants developers to ‘blow their minds’ and create content built specifically for cloud gaming. At London Games Conference today, OnLive CTO Tom Paquin used his experience at Netscape as an example. He said Netscape asked consumers what they wanted and that they all asked for news, sport and weather. …
Read More »PopCap reveals how to fail at mobile gaming
At London Games Conference today, PopCap senior designer David Bishop listed ten ways to fail at mobile gaming. 1: Blank Android. "Don’t publish on Android. It is a complete waste of time," he said. "And absolutely don’t bother with Kindle Fire. Nobody will buy it." 2: Ignore Facebook.Nobody does anything …
Read More »Miniclip: Browser games approaching ‘console quality’
Miniclip’s senior producer Jamie Cason says online browser games are nearing the level of quality associated with console titles. The online games portal spoke highly of its Dogfight Squadron game. Cason told attendees at the 2011 London Games Conference: These browser games – like Dogfight Squadron – are approaching console …
Read More »GoG.com: ‘DRM harms sales’
Digital rights management fails to prevent illegal game sales, says digital download firm Good Old Games. Speaking at the 2011 London Games Conference, GoG.com’s MD Guillaume Rambourg said: DRM does not protect your product, I should think it will harm your sales in the long run. DRM does not protect …
Read More »GameStop: Digital sales will hit $35bn by 2014
Global retail giant GameStop predicts the digital games market will hit $35bn by 2014. The firm says the current value is around $20bn, so will grow by 75 per cent over the next two years. It also expects points card sales to double by 2014, rising by 110 per cent. …
Read More »Japanese 3DS sales rocket as Super Mario 3D Land arrives
Nintendo’s 3DS was given a welcome boost in the Japanese charts last week thanks to the arrival of Super Mario 3D Land. Sales of the console more than doubled from 65,041 last week to 145,271, according to Andriasang. That’s more than every other console combined. PSP came second (27,952) followed …
Read More »OnLive claims UK audience of ‘millions’
THE UK launch of games streaming service OnLive reached ‘millions’ of users, says CEO Steve Perlman. That’s part of an overall global figure in the ‘tens of millions’, he told MCV – but still drew the line at giving any exact figures. OnLive went live on September 22nd and allows …
Read More »COUNTDOWN TO LONDON GAMES CONFERENCE: Digital to dominate by 2015
Digital sales will overtake boxed product sales by 2015, according to new industry-wide survey. The conclusion came form a panel of 1,000 industry experts quizzed by London Games Conference. 16 per cent believe that sea change could occur as early as the next 12 months. 39 per cent predict it …
Read More »Watch tonight’s Modern Warfare 3 launch LIVE on MCVuk.com
As has become tradition, Activision is tonight hosting a huge launch event for the most anticipated game of the year, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. And if you’re not lucky enough to have a ticket yourself, you can watch the whole thing right here on this page on MCVuk.com. …
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