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Techland is increasing the price of the Season Pass for its zombie game Dying Light. Currently the Season Pass costs 15.99. However, this will be increased to 23.99 on December 8th. The studio says it’s doing this because upcoming expansion The Following has grown in scale and now offers more …
Read More »Analysts dispute GameStop’s Star Wars Battlefront and Halo 5 estimates
GameStop’s assessment of both physical sales of Star Wars Battlefront and digital sales of Halo 5 are incorrect, analysts have argued. The retailer yesterday said that EA’s Star Wars shooter fell short of expectations, with CEO Tony Bartel saying: We had high expectations that diminished somewhat as it got closer, …
Read More »Codemasters closing down non-racing operations
Long-struggling Codemasters has confirmed the closure of its Malta studio and stated its intention to focus exclusively on racing games. The Malta studio was opened just last year and released its first title, smartphone card game Battle Decks, this year. However, the failure of both that release and more recent …
Read More »Why investors should stop ignoring and undervaluing eSports’ golden growth potential
Last week, the best-performing media release of the year was revealed. It wasn’tSpectre, Adele’s new album or tickets for U2’s latest global tour. It wasFallout 4, a game from Bethesda Game Studios, which made $750m (497.6m) in a single day of sales. One of the biggest industries you may not …
Read More »Retailer Play Asia labels Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 saga ‘SJW nonsense’
Import specialist Play Asia has chosen to use a pro-GamerGate anti-equality hashtag in its response to this morning’s Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 news. Developer Team Ninja said earlier that the game won’t be heading to the West due to fear of a backlash over the game’s representation of women. …
Read More »Valve boss Gabe Newell invests in temperature controlled cooking tool maker
Having single-handedly created the digital games PC market, Gabe Newell is giving a Seattle startup a helping hand in a completely different sector. Cooking. ChefSteps, as the company is called, specialises in cooking methods that utilise technology. It’s about to launch its first product, Joule, which is an ‘Immersion Circulator’. …
Read More »Star Wars Battlefront stays on target at top of Japanese charts
The latest Star Wars game has unsurprisingly shot to the top of the Japanese retail rankings in its debut week. EA’s return to the Battlefront series sold in excess of 100,000 units on PS4 during its first week on sale, outpacing the combined efforts of fellow newcomer Atelier Sophie: Fushigi …
Read More »TV station targets gamers: ‘It’s more viable to dedicate TV programming to PC gaming today’
Global video gaming TV station GINX has told PCR that there’s a strong demand for PC gaming TV content, despite the rise of streaming websites like Twitch. The station has kicked off a campaign to raise 540,000 through crowdfunding platformCrowdcubeas it plans to launch a weekly eSports show. Read more …
Read More »How do you find the right publisher for you?
With evermore publishers vying to sign a deal with you for your game, Craig Chapple uncovers just what developers should look for when identifying a partner, and how they can go about making the perfect pitch
Read More »What Will it Take For Netrunner to Be Played Like Professional Esports?
In 2012, author TL Taylor catalogued the rise of esports as it transitioned from a marginal, niche activity to something we might call mainstream today. In her book,Raising the Stakes: E-Sports and the Professionalization of Computer Gaming,Taylor wrote that esports—the act of playing video games so seriously that you achieve …
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