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We don’t know how many games consoles have been sold in China – but the noises coming from Sony suggest it isn’t as many as had been hoped. SCE CEO Andrew House has told Reuters that the region’s famously strict censorship rules have proved a hurdle for PS4 in the …
Read More »Fighting talk: Capcom’s 2015 comeback
When MCV spoke to Capcom at the start of 2015, the firm was in high spirits. The Japanese publisher had a busy release schedule following a quiet 2014, in which the company released little of note. That in turn followed a 2012 and 2013 which had seen entries in its …
Read More »Scottish game dev Stewart Hogarth has passed away
News has emerged that Scottish games developer Stewart Hogarth has sadly passed away. Gamasutrareports that Stewart was fighting congenital heart disease right up until Tuesday, September 15th. He was just 34 years old. Stewart was known to much of the Scottish games community, having worked at firms such as Denki …
Read More »Worst August in 19 years for UK games retailers
Sales of physical games in the UK generated just 22.5m last month, the lowest figure for an August since the mid-1990s. It is the 14th worst month in UK games industry history – 12 of which took place during 1996 and 1997. The only month in recent memory to reach …
Read More »Grow Home breaks Ubisoft download records on PSN
Ubisoft has said that Grow Home has become its fastest ever downloaded game on the PlayStation Network. Grow Home was initially released on Steam in February. A possible console release was touted should the PC release prove successful enough. This came to fruition last month when the game won the …
Read More »Konami convinced PES can catch up with FIFA
Konami says it is closing the gap between its PES series and EA’s football blockbuster, FIFA. Speaking to MCV, the publisher said it wants to be the industry leader in terms of soccer titles. Reviews for PES 2016 are now out, with critics praising the title. We’re definitely catching up …
Read More »‘Pre-order problems could deter the most valuable consumers in the industry’
Consumers who pre-order spend twice as much on games as the average player. Research firm Kantar Worldpanel says that consumers who pre-order spend – on average – 235 on games a year. The statistic acts as a warning to publishers following recent consumer dissatisfaction over pre-order issues. These have included …
Read More »Early Access title Dead Island: Epidemic is being scrapped
Deep Silver has confirmed that Early Access MOBA Dead Island: Epidemic will be killed off next month. This means that those who paid 29.99 for the starter pack, which included a number of items to be delivered upon the game’s official launch, will never receive their goods. The publisher has …
Read More »Sega, Curve and Ripstone back Digital Counts campaign
The first publishers have added their support to MCV’s call for more digital download data. The Digital Counts campaign launched three weeks ago, calling on publishers and digital retailers to share their figures in-order to create an accurate games chart. Currently, only games sold in boxes are included in the …
Read More »Publishers have learnt nothing from broken game fiasco, warn bug testers
Major games this Christmas could launch with crippling bugs, just like in 2014. That’s the warning from leading games testing firms, who insist too many publishers have not learnt their lessons from Q4 last year, which saw a number of titles arriving with game-breaking issues, such as Halo: The Master …
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