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Future says its Official Xbox Magazine website has increased its traffic by 220 per cent year-on-year. According to ComScore data, the site scored 504,068 global visitors last month, making it ‘the biggest dedicated Xbox content site in the UK.’ It follows a refresh of the website last year. OXM’s editor …
Read More »IN BRIEF: What’s Happened Today? (August 16th 2012)
Gamescom 2012 may well be winding down for the year, but there’s no let up in the frantic rollercoaster that is the global video games industry. Free-to-play seems to be flavour of the day, what with Ubisoft adopting some of its biggest IP to the model and existing F2P titles …
Read More »IN BRIEF: What’s Happened Today? (August 15th 2012)
Things couldn’t really have gone any better for Sony at last night’s Gamescom 2012 press conference. New IP? Check. New functionality? Check. Slick presentation? Check. New hardware? Well, no, there wasn’t any new hardware. Not quite yet, anyhow. Here’s a look at the last 24 hours in gaming: UK indie …
Read More »Ouya: We feel a responsibility for those who backed us
Julie Uhrman, the CEO of Ouya, has told MCV that her company feels a burden of responsibility to deliver on all of its promises for its thousands of backers. The Ouya Kickstarter closed last week having raised an astonishing total of $8,596,475 from 63,416 separate backers. We’ve been stunned by …
Read More »IN BRIEF: What’s Happened Today (August 13th 2012)
The things that get said in this office could land people in a lot of hot water. That’s why we don’t say them to other journalists. And that, it appears, is the key mistake made by the Gearbox developer who chose to tell Eurogamer that the in-office name for an …
Read More »IN BRIEF: What’s Happened Today (August 10th 2012)
MCV has spent a lot of time this week lamenting the inability of big companies to tell it to us straight. Well, perhaps they were listening. Today we’ve bought you a refreshingly honest interview with Square Enix about what it got wrong with MMO title Final Fantasy XIV. On top …
Read More »3DS headlines Rising Star’s autumn line-up
Rising Star Games will release four titles for Nintendo 3DS in the run-up to Christmas. The UK publisher’s autumn 2012 line-up kicks off in September with cerebral platformer Shifting World, which features a striking black and white art style (pictured). This will be followed by Girls’ Fashion Shoot in October, …
Read More »VIDEO: Molydeux reveals truth behind Microsoft departure
Parody Twitter account @petermolydeux has upped its game. Not content with playing a part in Peter Molyneux’s real-life departure from Lionhead and Microsoft, the prankster has now gone live with a video that reveals the real reason why the legendary UK developer went solo. This is a rough video edit …
Read More »BlazBlue 1.7m units sold worldwide, Chrono Phantasma hits this winter
The Blazblue series has sold 1.7m units worldwide, Aksys has announced. 800k, or just under half, of the copies were sold in the US according to a post on the publisher’s website. Arc System’s 2D fighting franchise debuted on consoles back in 2009 with Blazblue: Calamity Trigger, and the game’s …
Read More »GamesAid opens charity nominations
Eligible organisations for funding must be UK registered with a focus on children and young adults GamesAid is inviting its members to vote for which charity they would like to see receive financial support in its next round of funding. Nominations began yesterday and will end on Monday August 13th. …
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