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The current physical issue of GAMER magazine will be the last. Bournemouth’s Uncooked Media has announced its intention to shift the brand online, focusing on its interactive GAMER app that launched in February. By focusing on GAMER Interactive we can embrace new opportunities, such as creating one-off specials on a …
Read More »Egmont: Our best-selling Minecraft book has sold 1m in the UK
Book publisher Egmont has revealed that its best-selling official Minecraft book has sold 1m units in the UK. The firm says it is the official Minecraft titles that are proving most popular, with the best-selling unofficial book – Minecraft for Dummies – only selling 20,000 units. The statistics were revealed …
Read More »Wilson wants ‘to re-establish a player-first culture’ at EA
EA CEO Andrew Wilson is celebrating a year in the job, and pledging that its customers will come first in the future. "I still have a job which is an accomplishment in itself," he joked when asked by Polygon how his first year has gone. Of what his goals are …
Read More »PC will be the most lucrative games platform by 2019
Research giant Juniper Research has revealed its predictions for the UK games market by 2019. The firm says that combined revenue of PC and console games will be worth $41.2bn in 2019, a slight decline over previous years, but still accounting for well over 50 per cent of the market. …
Read More »Hearthstone now has over 20m players
Blizzard’s free-to-play card battler Hearthstone has reached a significant player milestone. Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, as it is officially called, now has over 20m registered players. It previously had hit 10m in March but has since then added to its PC and Mac version by launching on iPad. An Android …
Read More »Jon Murphy leaves Konami after 16 years
Konami’s PES team leader in the UK Jon Murphy has left the publisher. The industry stalwart leaves after 16 years during which he stewarded the PES brand through both the glory years and the long struggle to maintain legitimacy against rival FIFA. After 16 years at Konami I’ve decided to …
Read More »Chart-Track predicts UK boxed market to hit £2bn in 2016
The UK games boxed market will be worth 1.98bn by 2016, Chart-Track says. The firm expects significant growth from boxed games and hardware over the next two years due to the launch of Xbox One and PS4. These are just conservative figures,” Chart-Track director Dorian Bloch said during the Games …
Read More »Kickstarter now available in Ireland, Norway, Denmark and Sweden
First crowdfunding projects will be live on October 21st
Read More »Chivalry: Medieval Warfare heading to PS3, Xbox 360 this year
Torn Banner Studios is bringing its hit PC release Chivalry: Medieval Warfare to PS3 and Xbox 360 via publisher Activision, the companies revealed today in a joint announcement. The release states the game will launch on Sony and Microsoft’s last-gen consoles sometime later this year as a digital offering. The …
Read More »Volition creative director Steve Jaros joins Valve
Saints Row creative director Steve Jaros is leaving Volition to join Valve in an unspecified role. The industry vet confirmed the move on Twitter in a series of posts—stating that it was time to move on to "new adventures," and that he was thankful for the "life changing" experiences at …
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