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Paradox Interactive is celebrating the first birthday of city builder Cities: Skylines by announcing a highly impressive sales milestone. The game has in its first year sold over 2m units worldwide. It’s the fastest selling game the company has ever released. It previously sold 250k units on its first day, …
Read More »Plants vs Zombies card collecting spinoff incoming
EA’s Plants vs Zombies series is branching out into a third genre. Plants vs. Zombies: Heroes follows the template laid down by other card battlers by allowing players to amass a team of heroes and fending off against rival decks. Old characters will also be joined by a new cast. …
Read More »ESA hits back at E3 critics, but is considering inviting consumers
A defiant ESA, the organiser of E3, says the LA expo is ‘essential and critical’ to the games industry. Its comments come after Activision joined EA in not renewing its E3 booth for 2016. The two businesses follow the likes of Sega, Bandai Namco and Disney in no-longer booking space …
Read More »Tim Sweeney’s five steps to fixing Microsoft’s UWP
“Microsoft has no right to impose its certification regime on software obtained outside of its store”
Read More »Two Tribes quitting game development
Toki Tori developer Two Tribes has said that it is calling time on game development following the release of its next title Rive. The studio will remain operational and continue to support its existing games, but it has no plans to release any further games. In a long statement, the …
Read More »PlayStation heads to Guildford to hire Lionhead staff
PlayStation is holding a job fair for Lionhead employees on Monday. The Xbox-owned studio is facing closure following the cancellation of its game, Fable Legends, earlier this week. PlayStation operates a number of UK outfits, including Media Molecule, Guerrilla Cambridge and London Studios, all of which are working on PS4 …
Read More »The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD was the best-selling individual game last week in the UK
The Wii U actually had a No.1 game in the UK. Every week on this very website, we publish the ‘All-Formats Charts’. This week, Far Cry Primal was No.1. That included physical sales of the game on PS4 and Xbox One. However, if you only count individual consoles, Zelda: Twilight …
Read More »PS4 and Far Cry top February NPD rankings; Fire Emblem blossoms
February marked another sales victory for Sony’s PlayStation 4 in the US. VentureBeat reports that the result means that PS4 has outsold Xbox One for 12 of the last 14 months in the region, with Sony saying: We continued to see strong year-over-year sales growth for PS4 hardware and software …
Read More »OPINION: Dear Xbox, I think you’re making a mistake with Lionhead
Phil Spencer’s repetitive insistence that Xbox remains ‘committed to first party’ seems to be falling on deaf ears. Because, as some of the firm’s more vocal critics will tell you, what Microsoft says and what Microsoft does are often very different. It’s just announced the intention to close two internal …
Read More »Wooga opens Black Anvil Games, targets core gamers
New dev headed up by Wooga veteran Wilhelm Oesterberg, first title is mobile strategy game Warlords
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