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Steve Howse’s Snake-meets Agar.io title Slither.io was the best-selling free game in the iPad charts last week. Furthermore, it came in at No.4 in the free iPhone charts. In the iPad rankings, the title took the top spot away from Marvel’s Avengers Alliance 2, which falls to second place. Slither.io …
Read More »Dark Souls III claims series’ first No.1, launch sales 61 per cent higher than Dark Souls II
Bandai Namco has taken its first UK No.1 this year as action RPG Dark Soul III shoots to the top. This is the series’ first No.1, and beats the Week One sales of 2014’s Dark Souls II by a whopping 61 per cent. That title launched in second place behind …
Read More »The Mid Season Invitational will impact regional seeding at the League of Legends World Championship
The upcoming League of Legends Mid Season Invitational tournament will, for the first time, have a significant impact on the World Championship later in the year. Any team that makes it out of the group stage at MSI will secure their region a top four seed at Worlds. This doesn’t …
Read More »Collegiate League of Legends to hit US TV network
Big Ten Network has announced the BTN Invitational: A University League of Legends Event, which will be broadcast on their network over in the States. The event will take place at PAX East on April 22nd, and will see Ohio State University face off against Michigan State University in a …
Read More »Slither.io wants to be the new Agar.io
There’s every chance you’ve not heard of Agar.io. But that’s a bit of a surprise, really. The game, despite being largely absent from the press, was one of 2015’s biggest online hits and even won itself a starring role on Netflix drama House of Cards. And now a clone with …
Read More »The Top 30 Women in Games: Part Two
The MCV Women in Games Awards, in association with Women in Games (WIGJ) will take place on Thursday May 19th at the Hamyard Hotel, London. There the recently announced Top 30 Women in Games will be celebrated, while six special awards will be presented. Here we take a look another …
Read More »Games cause 8.2% rise in downloads on App Store and Google Play
Mobile games have caused an 8.2 per cent increase in downloads on Apple and Google’s digital storefronts. According to a report from intelligence firm Sensor Tower – as reported by Venture Beat – 17.2 billion apps were downloaded in Q1 2016, which is an 8.2 per cent increase year-on-year. Of …
Read More »March brings another US win for PS4
PS4 was once again the best-selling console in the US for the month of March. That takes its winning streak over rival Xbox One to 13 of the last 15 months, VentureBeat reports, with Microsoft’s only victories throughout that period coming in April and October 2015. Thank you to our …
Read More »PC website GameFront closing down this month
Popular PC mod and patch site GameFront is going to be shutting its doors at the end of April. In a post on the portal, managing editor Ron Whitaker announced that the site would be closing on April 30th, though gave no reason for GameFront’s closure. Whitaker also said that …
Read More »Vertigo talks VR’s arcade heritage, reinventing the reload and not asking too much of players
Lead engineer Trevor Blom on how the studio brought the dead to virtual life in shooter Arizona Sunshine
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