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CD Projekt Red has announced that recent RPG release The Witcher 3 has sold over four million copies. And that number only accounts for the first two week’s sales of the game. The best-selling game of the year has since then stayed firmly at the top of the UK charts, …
Read More »Payload Studios’ TerraTech: Lessons learned from Kickstarter
The UK studio discusses how it built a community before asking for a penny – and how it kept that community on board
Read More »Apple Pay hitting UK next month; iOS 9 and Apple Music announced
UK consumers will be able to start using Apple Pay next month, the company has announced. Although the full scale of support won’t be known for a few weeks, some companies have already pledged their backing, including Transport for London, Waitrose, McDonalds, Costa, Boots and M&S. A total of 250,000 …
Read More »100m downloads and counting for Sonic Dash
Sega has announced that since its release in March 2013 mobile title Sonic Dash has been downloaded over 100m times. Throughout that time, players have amassed 123 million hours played across 4.5 billion runs, collecting 850 billion rings in the process. The highest number of concurrent players ever was on …
Read More »Devs suffering under Steam refunds
Refund rates rocket as gamers blitz titles within two-hour limit
Read More »Gigataur enters mobile publishing
Developer behind Star Wars and X-Men games seeking new titles to publish
Read More »Jade Raymond: ‘Treat your team like your players’
Ex-Ubisoft Toronto MD says studios need to find better ways to engage and retain talent
Read More »Developers hit by Steam refund spike
Steam’s new refund policy is hitting some developers hard. Destructoid reports that Ball King and Bike Baron creator Qwiboo has struggled with its latest release, Beyond Gravity. Of the 18 copies sold in the last three days, 13 have been refunded – that’s 72 per cent. Prior to the policy …
Read More »Analyst doesn’t expect PS4 or Xbox One E3 price cut
Don’t expect Sony or Microsoft to cut the price of the next-gen consoles at E3 next week, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter has warned. Furthermore, he even expects the promotions currently in place for Xbox One will actually be reversed. "We do not expect price cuts for the Xbox One …
Read More »Bloodstained Vita port confirmed as Kickstarter campaign nears end
Koji Igarashi’s Kickstarter sensation Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night has met a stretch goal promising a PS Vita port for the upcoming title. Anupdate postfor the campaign notes the Vita port is being developed by Armature, the same studio that will be developing the Wii U port promised at the …
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