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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 »Chinese Room’s Dan Pinchbeck picks up British Writers’ Guild Award for Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture
The writer of PS4 exclusive Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture picked up the games writing prize at the British Writers’ Guild last night. Dan Pinchbeck of UK studio The Chinese Room beat out competition from murder mystery game Her Story and Failbetter Games’ Sunless Sea. The first person title is …
Read More »Watch Boris Johnson prance around a Minecraft London
Almost ten years ago, Boris Johnson said that computer games ‘rot the brain’ in this Telegraph editorial. But what a difference ten years make. Not only have we seen Boris playing Wii and with VR, now he’s giving the industry he once lambasted 1.2m to relaunch London Games Festival. To …
Read More »Mayor of London invests £1.2m in new London Games Festival
Boris Johnson has given the UK games industry 1.2m to launch Games London and develop a new London Games Festival. LGF will take place between April 1st to April 10th, and includes a Games Finance Market, a series of BFI talks, and it will also encompass EGX Rezzed and the …
Read More »Minecraft: Story Mode is launching on Wii U this week
The Wii U edition of Telltale’s Minecraft: Story Mode is being released this coming Thursday. The developer has announced that the first episode of the game – The Order of the Stone – will be coming out on Thursday, January 21st. This follows Mojang’s Minecraft finally launching on Nintendo’s home …
Read More »Nintendo says smartphone business will quadruple profits
The long-awaited debut on Nintendo on smartphones will have a dramatic effect on Nintendo’s profit, president Tatsumi Kimishima has said. Its debut smartphone title Miitomo also remains on track for March, the exec had asserted. The first fruits of Nintendo’s partnership with Japanese mobile publisher DeNA had been due out …
Read More »Dev accused of spying released from Iranian prison
A developer jailed in Iran on charges of spying has been let free after four years. 32-year-old Iranian-American Amir Hekmati was originally arrested by authorities in the Middle-Eastern country over his work on a language-teaching game produced by Kuma Reality. Hekmati was initially subscribed the penalty of death in 2012, …
Read More »Xbox 360 disc scratching case makes it all the way to the US Supreme Court
The US Supreme Court will now decide whether Microsoft will face a class-action lawsuit over allegations that the Xbox 360 had a disc-scratching fault. The Xbox 360 had its fair share of technical problems, not least of which was the infamous Red Ring of Death – a fault that ultimately …
Read More »Smash Sisters Unite at Genesis 3
Smash Bros. is a game that has broken down barriers for years. At any given Smash tournament, it’s not uncommon to see people of all ages, races, and backgrounds competing together.As Chillin once saidat the end of The Smash Brothers documentary, it brings people together that otherwise would not have …
Read More »CS:GO documentary in the works at Sky to show the pros and cons of eSports betting
A ripple went through the CS:GO community earlier today when a post went up on Reddit asking for experiences in gambling for a new documentary Sky were producing. The usual fears were assumed: a hit-piece of sorts towards the game, using the small percentages of the community that can’t control …
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