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Around a third of GAME stores will be opening their doors at midnight tonight to sell Nintendo’s new 3DS and New 3DS XL. Furthermore, it has also detailed a workaround for those wanting to trade in their old hardware that helps to bypasses the somewhat awkward data transfer requirement that …
Read More »Sonic Boom fails to sell 500k as Sega’s sales and income fall
Nintendo titles Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric and Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal have so far sold just 490k units between them. Add to that declines in sales of both PC staple Football manager and both Wii U and 3DS titles, and Sega Sammy’s financials for the nine months ending December …
Read More »Fireproof and Bossa to speak at F2P: Summit
Other speakers for March 26th event include Delinquent’s Dave Bishop and Secret Police’s Ric Moore
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Ann Scantlebury
It may sound hard to believe given her now prominent position of the host of the One Life Left video games radio show, but Scantlebury’s career in games started as a joke. [Games journalist] Ste Curran wanted a female news reader for a few episodes of a radio show about …
Read More »Brianna Wu has received 45 death threats
Revolution 60 creator and game developer Brianna Wu has revealed that she has received 45 death threats online since the start of GamerGate. Most recently a man wearing a skull mask posted a video on YouTube detailing his plans to murder Wu. So real was the threat that the man …
Read More »UK games market worth £3.94bn in 2014
MCV can today reveal that the UK video games market generated 3.944bn in consumer spending during 2014. The number is 13 per cent higher than 2013’s figure, when the UK market reached 3.48bn. This year’s data was calculated by MCV with trade body Ukie and a number of key data …
Read More »John Carmack to discuss the dawn of mobile VR at GDC
id Software co-founder to share his thoughts on best development practices and future of the tech
Read More »Creative England secures £8m in government funding
Money will be used to boost creative industries and generate jobs across games, TV, film and more
Read More »ESL releases matchmaking devkit to debut in WipEout spiritual successor
The biggest eSports league in the world, ESL, has released a white label development toolkit called ESL Matchmaking. The tool, to be first used in UK indie developer R8 Games’ upcoming anti-gravity racer, Formula Fusion, will allow competitive-grade ranked multiplayer matchmaking. The game, hailed as a spiritual successor to the …
Read More »Nintendo ‘still in denial about Wii U failure’, analyst claims
Analyst Michael Pachter has continued his long-running criticism of Nintendo with another scathing attack against the platform holder. I think that they are still in denial about the Wii U failure,” he told Game Informer. You keep seeing this stat so we’re up 82 per cent – yeah, 40,000 units …
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