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Pixelmage Games, the studio headed up by John Smedley, has pulled its Kickstarter campaign for debut title Hero’s Song. The campaign had only been running for one week and was attempting to raise $800,000. After seven days, 3,037 backers had only managed to pledge $136,849 towards this ambitious target. We’ve …
Read More »Call of Duty holds onto No.1 as Resident Evil Origins Collection debuts in sixth place
Activision’s Call of Duty hangs on to the top spot in the UK All Formats charts for a seventh consecutive week. The shooter saw a mere four per cent dip in sales last week, and manages to outsell FIFA 16. That title hops from third place to second, with sales …
Read More »Stand Up For GamesAid returns to The Comedy Store in May
Stand Up For GamesAid will return on Monday, May 9th at London’s The Comedy Store. Tickets are available right now for just 15 (plus 2 booking fee) . It is always a fun evening and always sells out, so make sure to get your tickets early. You can buy them …
Read More »Meet the new Curve Digital in this week’s issue of MCV
In this week’s MCV we sit down with Curve’s new CEO, Dominic Wheatley and Chairman Stuart Dinsey to find out about the publisher’s merger with Kuju. Is this merger an act of noble ambition or is it a desperate move in an increasingly challenging indie games market? We also talk …
Read More »Punch Club crosses $1m in sales following ‘Twitch Plays’ success
TinyBuild Games just announced that Punch Club has grossed over $1m (0.6m) in just 10 days, with more than 100,000 sales across all platforms. It follows the game’s unusual marketing push via the ‘Twitch Plays’ system. Punch Club was launched on Steam on January 8thand on iOS on January 14th. …
Read More »New Year, New Job: How to secure a job in PR
Premier’s director of games Gareth Williams shares what he looks for in candidates looking to kick off a career in PR What skills do you look for in candidates? There are so many important skills needed in PR, but the key skills are personality, drive and creativity. We all have …
Read More »‘Twitch Plays’ gets its own slot on streaming video service
Remember ‘Twitch plays Pokemon’? Now finding similar experiences is getting a whole lot easier with the addition of a new directory to the site. The Twitch plays Pokemon phenomenon caused site-wide problems for Twitch last year as tens of thousands of viewers took part in a collaborative effort to complete …
Read More »Find out how the UK games market performed last year in MCV’s first issue of 2016
As we start 2016, MCV looks back at the last twelve months to see just how the UK games market performed. In our first issue of the year, with the help of GfK Entertainment figures, we round up how much money the sector generated across hardware, software and accessories. We …
Read More »Not a Hero launching on PS4 in February, Vita version cancelled
Roll7’s indie shooter Not a Hero has finally been given a firm release date on PlayStation 4. The developer has announced via the PlayStation Blog that the title will be coming out on February 2nd and will set consumers back 9.99. "It’s been a challenge and we’ve had a number …
Read More »GamesRadar+ hit 11.3m users in December
Future’s GamesRadar+ has smashed its monthly user records in December 2015 with 11.3m people visiting the website. This is the second record-breaking month in a row after the site hit 9.8m unique users during November 2015. Furthermore, this growth in December represents a 29 per cent year-on-year growth over the …
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