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Read More »Opinion: Emotional labour in the games media (and beyond)
IHS games analyst Steve Bailey asks if we need to be concerned about the sheer extent of hostility that can sometimes face people who work in the games media. Iwas a freelance games journalist up until 2008, writing almost exclusively for print. Then, gaming forums featured some hostility toward the …
Read More »Doom takes No.1 after UK price cut, Overwatch slips to second place
Bethesda’s new Doom has ended Overwatch’s three-weeks at the top of the UK charts. The title saw a 57 per cent rise in sales due to a reduction in price that saw retailers selling the game for 30. It shot to first place from third. This is the first time …
Read More »Check out our E3 roundup in this week’s MCV
What a week! MCV is this week looking back at what has been one of the noisiest and more eventful E3’s in history. We also discuss the Brexit and how it could affect the UK games industry, with help from UKIE. Elsewhere, we speak to EA’s senior producer Nick Channon …
Read More »Firewatch developer Campo Santo talks indie game pricing and launching a boxed version
Formed by veterans from Telltale Games, Klei Entertainment and Irrational, Campo Santo released its first game Firewatch at the start of year. The title was an instant hit, selling 500,000 copies in its first month and recouping its development budget in its first day on sale. It was overwhelming,” composer …
Read More »Sky and ITV partner to launch 24-hour Ginx eSports TV channel
Ginx TV has unveiled its new direction this morning, following a new partnership with Sky and ITV. From June 23rd, the video games channel will become Ginx eSports TV, the first 24-hour eSports channel in the UK. It will launch on channel 470 in Sky’s Sports section and will feature, …
Read More »Opinion: The changing landscape of games industry conferences
SuperData’s Joost van Dreunen discusses the rapid rise and sheer number of video game events designed to educate the industry on the next big thing. For this year’s E3 conference, I’d like to not talk about E3 for a change. Over the course of my tenure as an industry analyst, …
Read More »Uncharted helps PS4 hold No.1 spot for May in US
PlayStation 4 was once again the best-selling hardware in the US thanks to Uncharted 4, according to data from NPD. As reported by GamesBeat, the PS4-exclusive was the best-selling game for the month, ahead of Bethesda’s Doom. Though Sony’s title was No.1 game of the month, NPD reports that Blizzard’s …
Read More »Toxic League of Legends players also also make for toxic workers, Riot finds
Having examined 12 months worth of gameplay for every employee, League of Legends developer Riot discovered "a correlation between in-game and in-Riot toxicity". Writing for GoogleRe:work, the studio said: The Riot team hypothesised there’d be a correlation between highly toxic in-game play and workplace toxicity; if a Rioter received lots …
Read More »ESA on the future of E3
Every year when we sit down with E3 organisers the ESA, we generally end up chatting about the same topics. ‘What can we expect from the show?’, ‘What’s different this year?’, ‘How much space is being dedicated to mobile/VR/AR/the next big thing?’. But this year, there’s actually quite a lot …
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