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Read More »EA’s Hilleman: Games are still too hard to learn
The complexity of modern video games continues to alienate too many potential players, EA’s chief creative officer Richard Hilleman has said. "Our games are actually still too hard to learn," Hilleman said at the D.I.C.E. Summit in Las Vegas, as reported by GameSpot, when comedian Pete Holmes said that he’d …
Read More »Hearthstone and Destiny made $450m in 2014
Lifetime sales for Skylanders surpass 240m as Activision Blizzard posts $4.4bn in revenue for last year
Read More »INTERVIEW: Jason Yeh, head of EU eSports at Riot Games, on League of Legends’ rise to the top
With more than 27 million daily players and viewership numbers that rival national TV broadcasting, League of Legends is undeniably the biggest eSports title in the world. Jason Yeh, head of EU eSports at the title’s developer Riot Games, tells MCV how League got to the top – and how …
Read More »Assassin’s Creed: Rogue to sneak onto PC next month
Last year’s last-gen Assassin’s Creed title is, as we all expected, making its way onto PC. Assassin’s Creed: Rogue will be arrive on computers on March 10th having previously only been available on PS3 and Xbox 360. Also included in this release will be eye tracking support. The minimum specs …
Read More »Destiny and Hearthstone make $850m as Skylanders becomes a $3bn franchise
Activision Blizzard has posted full year net revenue of $4.4bn thanks to the success of four key franchises. The publisher says that multiplayer shooter Destiny and card game Hearthstone between them raked in $850m over the last financial year. Bungie’s shooter now has over 16m registered players while the World …
Read More »Halo 5: Guardians multiplayer beta logs 20m matches
Halo 5: Guardians multiplayer beta participants played 20m matches over 2.5m hours, Microsoft has revealed as part of an infographic on the event. The image created by developer 343 Industries (enlarged below) states those 20m matches amounted to 290 years worth of gameplay and 181m confirmed kills. We’re thrilled with …
Read More »Pokémon World Championship boasts $2m prize pool
The Pokmon Company has announced that its 2015 Pokmon World Championships will offer $2m in prizes. Organizers have detailed locations and dates for the US Pokmon Winter Regional Championship tournaments. The US regional tourneys take place later this month at the following locations: St. Louis, MO: February 14–15 – St. …
Read More »Ubisoft officially releases The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot
Ubisoft has removed the beta label from its free-to-play dungeon crawler The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot. The game officially entered open beta just under a year ago, and though the publisher has pushed it through to official release, it still has plans to regularly release updates with new features …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Petra Cattanach
Cattanach started in the games industry as the project manager at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe in the creative services group back in 2008. Her background includes a Master’s in business and publishing and experience in the children’s book and toy industry at companies such as Penguin, BBC and Hasbro. My …
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