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At last! The UK games industry has some digital download charts. UKIE has signed agreements with leading providers of mobile and digital sales data, and MCV will be printing the results. Analytics firm Reflection will offer UK mobile sales charts, which will be distributed by UKIE alongside the boxed charts …
Read More »November charts: Call of Duty, Fallout and Battlefront cause blockbuster month for the UK games industry
November proved to be a major month for the UK games industry, driven by a trio of major launches – Call of Duty, Fallout and Star Wars Battlefront. Activision’s military shooter sold over 1m units in just over a week. The game is part of the Black Ops line of …
Read More »Minecraft continues to rule the App Store charts
Minecraft dominates the iPad and iPhone paid charts. The Pocket Edition of Mojang’s hit is No.1 on both platforms, while Telltale’s new episodic Story Mode takes second place in the iPad ranks and No.5 on iPhone. These titles are absent from the Grossing Top Tens which are ruled by mobile …
Read More »Read about the NEW UK charts in this week’s issue of MCV
The charts are making a return in MCV this week thanks to a deal signed by UKIE with SuperData and Reflection. In this week’s issue we include the Chart-Track numbers for November, alongside digital sales information for October courtesy of SuperData. That’s on top of mobile charts from Reflection. We …
Read More »Big Bang Racing studio Traplight lands €1.3m in funding
Second round of investment brings total to €2 million for Finnish dev
Read More »Resident Evil 2 Remake IS going to be built from the ground up
The forthcoming Resident Evil 2 remake is going to be a ‘from the ground up remake’. That’s according to UK senior marketing director Stuart Turner, who took to Twitter to clarify some confusion surrounding the title. This follows the firms latest financial report, which seems to have referred to the …
Read More »Amazon granted augmented reality patents
Reflector-based depth mapping and object tracking systems outline headset-free solution for living room
Read More »EA, Konami and Sega veteran David Zemke joins DeltaDNA
Former Rovio director of advocacy to focus on building brand awareness of UK analytics firm in the US
Read More »King’s Quest: Rubble Without a Cause hits this month
The second chapter of The Odd Gentlemen’s King’s Quest revival is set to release later this month across all platforms, publisher Sierra has announced. King’s Quest: Rubble Without a Cause will launch December 16th on PC, PS4, PS3, Xbox One, and Xbox 360. The first chapter is available on the …
Read More »SteamWorld Heist arrives next week on 3DS
Developer Image & Form has revealed its latest SteamWorld title will arrive on Nintendo 3DS next Thursday. SteamWorld Heist will debut December 10thon 3DS, with other platforms to follow at later dates. Those other platforms haven’t been made official as of yet, but the Swedish studio’s initial effort with the …
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