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Studio Wildcard’s survival adventure game Ark: Survival Evolved has sold more than two million copies on Steam. The game was released in June 2nd on Steam Early Access, and in four months has sold around 500,000 units a month on average. The title’s popularity has seen it consistently placed as …
Read More »Jessica Curry stepping down as Chinese Room studio head
The studio head of Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture developer The Chinese Room Jessica Curry is leaving the studio. In a very personal blog post Curry revealed that her health is playing a big part, with a fight against a degenerative disease proving a tough battle to fight. Two other …
Read More »Removed apps returning to Apple App Store purchase history
Games that have been removed from Apple’s App Store appear to be once again showing up in user’s purchase history. However, the truth behind Apple’s policy change – if indeed there has been one – remains uncertain. It was reported earlier this week that apps that have been removed from …
Read More »Spencer talks PS4 lead, impact of Xbox One launch struggles
Xbox boss Phil Spencer has admitted that he doesn’t know if the Xbox One can ever catch PS4. "You know, I don’t know,” he responded when asked that exact question at the GeekWire Summit 2015, as reported by Videogamer. You know, the length of the generation… They [Sony] have a …
Read More »G2A labels Riot ban as an ‘aggressive attack’ on eSports
Riot’s decision to block advertising from select key resellers at the 2015 League of Legends World Championships has been heavily criticised by G2A. Earlier this week it was revealed that Riot had ordered teams at the event to pull all sponsored branding for the retailer. The move concerned a disagreement …
Read More »PlayStation Now launches in the UK for £12.99 a month
Sony’s streaming games service PlayStation Now has now officially launched in the UK. Having entered beta back in June, Sony has now introduced a monthly subscription service priced at 12.99. Individual titles can be rented for 2.99 and the whole thing can be tried for free for seven days. Over …
Read More »Unity to up its headcount by 500 before the end of the year
Unity’s business is changing, and to support this the company has embarked on a mass recruitment drive. The company has long been one of the major go-to game engines in the industry. But arguably it hasn’t had the huge scale you might expect for the team behind such a widely-used …
Read More »Voice actors union gives strike the go-ahead
Proposals for video game voice actors to strike have met with major support from members of SAG-AFTRA. The Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists announced it wasvoting on whether or not to strikelast month. The referendum has been a resounding success” with 96.52 per cent …
Read More »Apple downplays iPhone 6s ‘Batterygate’
Remember ‘Antennagate’? Five years on Apple has sound itself facing a new, albeit somewhat less dramatic, controversy. A recent teardown of the new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus discovered that not all models are equal. The A9 chip powering the devices is actually sourced from two different suppliers – Samsung …
Read More »Yacht Club scraps Xbox One’s physical Shovel Knight release
Publishing policies” have been blamed for the decision to scrap the release of indie platformer Shovel Knight on Xbox One. With extremely heavy hearts, we’re sad to announce there will not be an Xbox One physical version this holiday,” developer Yacht Club said. We really gave it our best effort, …
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