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The age of the console is over, according to the boss of the world’s largest PC gaming GPU provider Nvidia. My sense is that the game console platform is not likely to enjoy the heydays when it was really unambiguously the only and the best game platform to enjoy games,” …
Read More »Are you going to the Games Industry Christmas Quiz?
Spaces are filling up fast at the first ever MCV and Develop Games Industry Christmas Quiz. A combined effort between the two publications, the festive battle of wits is open to the entire UK games industry, pitting developers against publishers, retailers, media firms and more. Firms already signed up include …
Read More »Sumo Digital completes MBO
LittleBigPlanet 3 developer Sumo Digital has performed a management buyout from previous owner Foundation 9. With the help of investment from NorthEdge Capital, the management team of CEO Carl Cavers, COO Paul Porter, CFO Chris Stockwell and executive art director Darren Mills are now set to split away from the …
Read More »Jagex’s Transformers Universe team suffers layoffs
UK developer Jagex in the process of laying off an unknown number of staff. The studio is currently in a consultation process with members of the Transformers Universe team, according toGames Industry. Those affected will either be made redundant or moved to other Jagex teams, working on flagship product RuneScape, …
Read More »Sonic, Bowser and Mega Man among new wave of confirmed Amiibo figures
Nintendo has named and pictured the characters that will feature in its third and fourth wave of Amiibo releases. Gematsu lists the third wave as Bowser, Ike (Fire Emblem), King DeDeDe (Kirby), Lucario (Pokemon), Meta Knight (Kirby), Rosalina & Luma (Mario Galaxy), Sheik (Zelda) and the cel-shaded version of Link …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: November 2-8
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare has taken over the top spot on Steam’s weekly best sellers chart. The latest in Activision’s hit FPS franchise beat out runner-up Football Manager 2015, while popular indie game re-release The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth finished in third. Advanced Warfare’s Digital Pro Edition also made …
Read More »Telltale’s Game of Thrones to span six episodes beginning with ‘Iron From Ice’
Telltale’s Game of Thrones will take place across six episodes, the development studio has revealed. The episode total is one more than Telltale’s other episodic games, such as The Walking Dead Season One and Season Two, Tales from the Borderlands and The Wolf Among Us. In a new tease on …
Read More »Terraria hits PS4, Xbox One this week
Re-Logic’s hit indie sandbox adventure game Terraria is set to launch on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One this week. Publisher 505 Games has announced the PS4 version of the title will release on November 11th, while the Xbox 360 version is scheduled for November 14th. The current-gen console editions boast …
Read More »PS4 claims biggest slice of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare sales
More copies Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare were sold on PS4 than any other platform, although the overall Xbox performance bettered the PlayStation platforms. Videogamer reports that 35 per cent of the game’s week one sales in the UK were on PS4 and 32 per cent on Xbox One. However, …
Read More »Wu: Defeating GamerGate would be an historic moment
One of the main targets of the #GamerGate hate campaign has said that ‘defeating’ the movement would be an historic victory for the games industry. The effect defeating Gamergate would have is incalculable, one of this field’s most historic moments, remembered as the moment games development said: ‘This is going …
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