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Read More »Monster Hunter X starts 2016 on top in Japan
The best-selling game of 2015 in Japan is also its first No.1 of this year. According to data from our friends over at Famitsu, Capcom’s Monster Hunter X takes the top spot, selling 149,587 units, 9,000 units ahead of second place, Monster Strike from Mixi. Both of those titles are …
Read More »VIDEO: Check out this Unreal augmented reality fight
Demo shows of Epic’s engine delivering real-time shadows and collision detection in AR
Read More »iBuyPower unveils the Revolt 2, an eSports gaming PC
iBuyPower today announced the successor to its Revolt gaming PC, the Revolt 2. The new model claims to offer improved performance, power, and control by rethinking the gaming desktop design from the ground up”. The result is frankly quite impressive, as the Revolt 2 looks unlike any other gaming desktop …
Read More »MCV AWARDS 2016: Have you made the list…?
It’s a new year and a new opportunity for your team to shine. And it starts this week as we announce the finalists of the MCV Awards 2016. We’ve had hundreds of nominations since lobbying opened late last year and tomorrow morning we’ll announce which companies and teams have been …
Read More »Japanese games market falls to lowest point in 26 years, declines 13 per cent year-on-year
Things continue to look exceptionally bleak for the Japanese console games market, according to data from Famitsu. In 2015 the sector’s games market generated 321bn, a 13 per cent decline year-on-year. Meanwhile, software sales dropped 16 per cent to 191bn, and console sales dipped to 130bn – a 8.5 per …
Read More »Adele’s 25 pips FIFA 16 to become the biggest UK entertainment launch of 2015… if we pretend digital doesn’t exist
Unsurprising, Adele’s 25 album was the UK’s biggest entertainment product of 2015 with 2.6m sales, according to retail trade body ERA. But it was very close between the smash hit album and the video game FIFA 16. FIFA 16 sold over 2.5m units, and was on sale for a much …
Read More »UK digital game revenue is double that of physical, says IHS
Forget yesterday’s GfK Chart-Track figures, UK game revenue actually grew by 10 per cent last year. Sales of physical disc-based games dropped 2.2 per cent in revenue year-on-year to 927.6m. But according to IHS estimates, digital game revenue was up 17.1 per cent last year, rising from 1.622bn to 1.899bn …
Read More »Square Enix’s cloud gaming arm Shinra Technologies closes
The prospect of cloud gaming has been dealt another blow. Square Enix opened its cloud-focused division Shinra Technologies – named after the eponymous company in Final Fantasy VII – back in September 2014, with former Square president Yoichi Wada taking the reins. Among the firm’s aims was the creation of …
Read More »Global VR market to reach £3.5bn in sales in 2016 – report
Virtual reality is almost upon us now, and research firm SuperData reckons that the market for the new tech will reach $5.1bn (3.5bn) by the end of the year. That’s according to the company’s ‘Virtual Reality Market Brief‘, which also predicts that the install base of VR in 2016 would …
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