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It’s time for MCV’s Annual Retail Survey – what was the biggest challenge facing UK games retail? Who was their favourite publisher? What game sold the best for them? This year we spoke to over 130 games stores from across the UK – both independent outlets and the big chains …
Read More »Microsoft crowned best UK publisher by games retail
For the second year running, Xbox has been voted the UK’s best publisher by retailers. In 2014, the firm was voted for by 26 per cent of stores, but this year this grew to 31 per cent of retailers asked. Store managers cited the platform holder’s strong first-party line-up, which …
Read More »EA opens eSports division, headed by Peter Moore
Current EA COO Peter Moore has landed a new role at the publisher, heading up a brand new eSports division. Its official name is the EA Competitive Gaming Division (CGD), and Moore’s new title is Executive Vice President and Chief Competition Officer. His aim is to further the eSports aspirations …
Read More »Minecraft: Story Mode episode 4 hits later this month
The fourth episode of Minecraft: Story Mode is set to launch later this month, Telltale has revealed. Telltale confirmedthe first season’s penultimate episode will launch later this month across all platforms, adding that the fifth episode is scheduled for a vague 2016 window. More details are said to be on …
Read More »Traplight closes second round of funding
Finland-based mobile studio Traplight Games has closed a recent round of funding totaling €1.3m. Games Industryreports the second funding round brings the Big Bang Racing developer’s lifetime total to €2m. The studio’s racing game is based around user-generated content – which has gone well enough for the studio to prioritize …
Read More »Mighty Switch Force Academy launches out of Early Access
Mighty Switch Force Academy has launched out of Early Access on Steam, developer WayForward has announced. The indie studio boasts the official release packs 20 new levels, five classic stages, as well as four-player co-op and competitive play. WayForward debuted its Mighty Switch Force property as a puzzle platformer release. …
Read More »John Lewis has started stocking a VR headset
Straight-laced, stiff upper-lipped, very-sensible middle class British High Street retailer John Lewis has got all modern, like, by adding a virtual reality headset to its shelves. It’s called the Freefly VR. It costs 49.95 and can be found on the fifth level of the store’s flagship Oxford Street outlet. The …
Read More »AMD is adding HDMI support to FreeSync
FreeSync is freeing itself of the need for a DisplayPort connection. AMD’s technology synchronises a PC’s and monitor’s refresh rate (the number of different frames shown on the screen every second), providing for smoother visuals and responsiveness. Until now both FreeSync and Nvidia’s equivalent tech G0Sync have required PCs to …
Read More »Why new VC firm Presence Capital is focused on virtual reality start-ups
$10m inaugural funding will be investing in VR and AR projects that could 'transform the world'
Read More »Overwatch post-launch content to be free of charge
Blizzard says that heroes and maps coming to its team shooter Overwatch after the game is out will be entirely free. In a video on the Overwatch YouTube channel (below), game director Jeff Kaplan addressed questions from the title’s community, specifically how the developer would be approaching post-release content. Kaplan …
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