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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 …
Read More »Microsoft’s Israel-based HoloLens team hit with layoffs
60 jobs have been cut from Microsoft’s HoloLens team in Isreal, the company has confirmed. Techcrunchreports 30 full-time staff and 30 contractors are out of the job this week based on the decision to "wind down work" on HoloLens in the country, and to switch development focus to a "different …
Read More »Easyhoon signs with Vici Gaming in deal reportedly worth $860,000
ALeague of Legendsfranchise in China just traded one of last year’s world champions for a newer version. Vici Gamingtoday signed mid laner Lee Easyhoon” Ji-hoon, the understudy ofSK Telecom T1’sdominant Lee Faker” Sang-hyeok. While Easyhoon rode the bench for most of SKT’s road to winning the world championship this year, …
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