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The cult of Pokemon continues with news of a strong launch for the brand’s newest pair of games. Siliconera reports that Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire have between them sold 3.04m copies in Japan, the US and a handful of other territories in just three days. Famitsu revealed that …
Read More »Pokémon remakes sell 1.5m units and top Japanese charts
Pokmon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire were the best-selling games in Japan this week, according to data provided by Famitsu. The remakes of 2003’s Ruby and Sapphire sold a combined total of 1.5 million units, making it one of the biggest launches of the year to date. These titles also …
Read More »Dark Souls GFWL migration delayed until December
Bandai Namco’s Dark Souls will ditch Games for Windows Live a little later than initially planned. The swap from GFWL to Steam was scheduled to take place this month but will now occur in December. We are working hard to finalize the process to move your Dark Souls: Prepare to …
Read More »Brianna Wu’s next game wants to replace Twine
The next game from Revolution 60 director Brianna Wu hopes to establish a new way to deliver interactive novels. The title is being developed for tablets and mobiles and will be visual, it will interactive, and it will allow the reader to decide where the story goes” Wu said, adding …
Read More »UK industry veteran Tony Bourne has passed away
Tony Bourne, a long-term member of the UK games industry, has passed away. Bourne is best known for founding the SCEE’s QA department in Liverpool back in 1995 and also spent time working at US Gold, Eidos, Wise Monkey and Film Finances. His funeral will be held on Wednesday December …
Read More »GAME announces midnight openings for Black Friday
Leading UK retailer GAME is taking the unusual step of opening over 300 of its stores at midnight on the night of Thursday November 27th for Black Friday. All stores will be opening early on the day itself, as well, with some even opening their doors as early as 5:00am. …
Read More »Gamevil acquires South Korean dev Waplesoft
Mobile publisher believes studio could become "RPG-specific developer"
Read More »Obituary: SCEE’s Tony Bourne
Founder of PlayStation Europe's QA department honoured
Read More »14 UK games approved for tax relief so far
The BFI has said that 14 games have started down the road toward UK tax relief. An agreement on tax relief plans was confirmed last year and since August 13 titles have received interim certification and one has received final certification from the BFI Certification Unit. These include: Beyond Flesh …
Read More »ASA warns YouTubers about product promotion
The Advertising Standards Authority has warned YouTubers that they need to make it clear when they are paid to promote products. A BBC report found that many of what it described as videos by some of UK’s best-known vloggers” broke the existing rules which require that viewers are explicitly made …
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