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In the world of eSports, it’s hard for a game to be – and stay – on top. One major difference between eSports and real sports” is that the latter stays remarkably static. People don’t often jump ship from watching football to baseball after a few years because they get …
Read More »The postive impact of Valve’s Majors format on the Dota 2 esports scene
2015 saw unprecedented growth throughout the year for the Dota 2 competitive scene, and all of it culminated in a record-breaking $18.4 million prize pool at The International 5, the world championships for Dota 2. By winning TI5, Evil Geniuses collected more than $6.6 million of the prize money. With …
Read More »The Witness is trouncing Braid sales, although Blow bemoans piracy blight
Jonathan Blow’s second title The Witness is on track for a Braid-smashing week-one sales performance. It’s hard to talk about numbers without breaking NDAs, but The Witness is on track to sell more in a week than Braid sold in its first year, and Braid was a hit indie game,” …
Read More »EA and Ubisoft clash over ‘Ghost’ trademark
Ubisoft is opposing rival publisher EA’s attempts to trademark ‘Ghost’. The firm claims that the trademark will ‘cause confusion’ with its Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon franchise, which has a new entry – Wildlands (pictured) – launching this year. The document indicates that EA attempted to register a Ghost trademark on …
Read More »Activision publishing new Ghostbusters game, report claims
This year’s female-led Ghostbusters reboot will be accompanied by an Activision-published console title, it has been reported. Retail Merchandiser claims, in an interview with Sony Pictures Consumer Products senior VP Mark Caplan, that a ‘full-fledged’ Ghostbusters game is on the way to PS4 and Xbox One with an expected release …
Read More »LEGO Marvel’s Avengers soars to No.1
Warner Bros’ LEGO Marvel’s Avengers has become the eighth LEGO video game to reach the top spot in the UK charts. The title is the first LEGO Marvel release to reach this milestone, after 2013’s LEGO Marvel Super Heroes debuted in second place behind Call of Duty: Ghosts. The former …
Read More »Konami has shipped 6m units of Metal Gear Solid V
Japanese publisher Konami has revealed it has sold in six million copies of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain to retail. This figure only represents the number of units bought in by stores, and does not mean that Metal Gear Solid V has sold six million units. This figure …
Read More »‘Crowdpublishing’ platform BrightLocker enters closed beta
Service allows creators to work on concepts suggested by the community and split revenue
Read More »Surprise! PC game boxed sales down, digital up
Sales of boxed PC games in the UK fell by more than 36 per cent, to just over 1m games sold, in 2015. The latest statistics from GfK Entertainment show that a total of just 21.3m was spent on physical PC games last year in Britain – a drop of …
Read More »Edge Case Games team ‘begged’ its CEO not to put Fractured Space on Early Access
It’s difficult to find a title that encapsulates the current zeitgeist of the games industry as much as Edge Case’s Fractured Space. The indie studio’s debut release is a 5v5 MOBA-esque space combat title that has been developed in Steam’s Early Access. The game ticks all the modern buzzwords. Yet …
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