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Telltale’s Game of Thrones title has shot straight to the top of the Xbox Live Arcade charts in the UK. It’s one of two Telltale properties in the Top Ten, with its Tales from the Borderlands game reaching No.3. It means that Minecraft has to cope with an unusually low …
Read More »Underwear brand spoofs controversial Hatred
Fashion label Björn Borg creating First Person Lover, due for release in January
Read More »West Games tries to get STALKER successor development back up and running
The group behind failed STALKER successor Areal has launched a crowdfunding campaign for a very similar looking game entitled STALKER Apocalypse. West Games is this time using a funding platform called World Wide Funder, which was only recently established. It also allows developers to keep whatever cash has been pledged …
Read More »Has Black Friday damaged December sales?
November’s barnstorming Black Friday week was one of the busiest seven days of sales in UK games industry history. Almost 2m games were sold that generated around 62m in revenue. It was a huge week, with 240,000 Xbox Ones and PS4s shifted through stores. Yet amongst the commercial success, there …
Read More »MCV’s 12 Games of Christmas: Minecraft
There’s only one statistic that you need to know about the scale and popularity of Minecraft – Microsoft spent $2.5bn buying it. Since its full lauch on PC in 2011, the game has been sold to 54m gamers globally, making the construction title the biggest video game of all time. …
Read More »Mortal Kombat dev NetherRealm is making a WWE game
The creative minds behind Mortal Kombat are working on a new WWE title for smart devices. Named WWE Immortals, the game will be free-to-play and is currently being developed by NetherRealm Studios in association with Phosphor Game Studios, according toGameSpot. It will be released on iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch and …
Read More »Two developers sign up to Green Man Loaded
Green Man Gaming’s new publishing arm has named its first two development partners. Pocket Games and Burnt Fuse will release god game IdolHands and physics-based puzzle game Keebles respectively, with both due to arrive on the Green Man Loaded label in Q1 2015. Our first mission when we launched Green …
Read More »COD: Advanced Warfare is 2014’s best selling US game, but sales dip up to 27% year-on-year
Activision’s Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is the best selling game to date in the US, although analysts suggest that sales are down on predecessor Ghosts. The publisher says NPD data shows the latest COD is the best selling 2014 title on PS4, Xbox One, PS3 and Xbox 360 and …
Read More »FIFA 15 continues its winning streaks in UK charts
It’s Christmas, and there are always two games that dominate this time of year. FIFA and Call of Duty. And that’s exactly how this year is turning out as well. FIFA 15 is No.1 again and Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is No.2. Again. Both titles suffered minor declines in …
Read More »Spencer: It’s time for us to talk about gaming on Windows
It appears that Microsoft is once again going to try and get PC gaming right. Xbox boss Phil Spencer has said on Twitter that: I’ll be focusing more on what we are doing on Win10 in January, it’s time for us to talk about gaming on Windows.” The Verge reports …
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