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Ubisoft’s racing outing The Crew continues to expand its audience, even well over a year after its release. The game has now hit 5m registered players (which is not quite the same as sales). The publisher has said that everyone who logs in on May 28th will be handed 50,000 …
Read More »Minecraft and Counter-Strike devs join EA and Telltale execs at Gamelab 2016
Spanish event moves venue to Barcelona’s Hesperia Tower Hotel
Read More »Forget Vive’s room-scale VR, WorldViz is working on ‘warehouse-scale’ tech
Precision Position Tracking system will support up to 10 users in a 50x50m space, and is compatible with any Unreal Engine 4 or Unity 5 device
Read More »$6.3m investment brings Funcom ‘back on track’
Troubled MMO developer Funcom has been bailed out of negative equity by an injection of investment money. The LEGO Minifigures Online, Age of Conan and The Secret World creator had previously been sat at –$10m, which has now been reversed to +$4m thanks to $6.3m in private placement investment. The …
Read More »Front Defense is HTC’s first internally developed game
VR platform holder HTC is making its debut as a games developer with new VR title Front Defence. The title will be shown off at Taiwan’s Computex trade show next week, VentureBeat reports. The title is a tower defence game with players holding out against increasingly difficult waves of enemies. …
Read More »New studio head for Madfinger Games
Miguel Caron joins Shadowgun developer
Read More »HTC moves into VR development with Vive debut
Internal 'Creative' team working on Front Defense, as well as non-game experiences
Read More »Dead Island Definitive Edition PS4 includes only one game on the disc
Only one of the two games included in the PS4 version of Dead Island Definitive Edition will actually come on the retail disc. Deep Silver has confirmed that the PS4 SKU includes a Dead Island disc in the box alongside a code to download its sequel Dead Island: Riptide. This …
Read More »Kabam acquires Dawn of Steel studio Superweapon
Buyout of dev formed by EA and Zynga vets bolsters free-to-play firm’s LA mobile team
Read More »Overall toys-to-life sales down 12% so far in 2016
More people may own toys-to-life games than ever, but players are spending less on them. That’s according to GfK Entertainment. MCV last week revealed that over 620,000 UK consumers own either a copy of Skylanders Superchargers, LEGO Dimensions or Disney Infinity 3, making it the most successful eight months yet …
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