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Sony has re-taken the crown as the world’s most successful games console manufacturer. Nikkei reports, via AFP, that in the year ending March 2014 cumulative sales of PlayStation hardware – which presumably included PS4, PS3, PS2, Vita and PSP – reached 18.7m units. In the same period Nintendo sold 16.31m …
Read More »E3 2014: All the news in one place
Keep up with all the key announcements right here
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: June 1-7
Recently released Early Access titles The Forest and The Stomping Land have taken the top two spots on this week’s Steam top ten sellers chart. Last week’s winner Watch Dogs slipped to third, while DayZ maintained its previous position in fifth. Discounts on Injustice: Gods Among Us and Mortal Kombat …
Read More »Report claims The Last Guardian cancelled, Sony denies rumour
'Internal source' says game was officially canned last week
Read More »PayPal option now available on PS4 digital purchases
PS4 owners now have the ability to buy games and other products using their PayPal accounts, with Sony adding the payment option for all digital goods offered on the console. Users can add money from their PayPal accounts to their PSN wallets directly from the console dashboard by highlighting the …
Read More »FIFA: The Next Generation
FIFA 14 marked EA’s football next-gen debut Yet a flashy new engine is only a small part of what the development team has been working on. Ahead of FIFA 15’s full reveal MCV caught up with EA exec producer David Rutter… Iwant to think about FIFA like a franchise. I …
Read More »130 jobs lost at Nintendo Europe
Nintendo has announced 130 redundancies at its Groostheim office in Germany. "Nintendo of Europe has entered into a consultation process on a number of changes it is intending to make to its European business which, in the long term, will better enable the European business to adapt to the rapidly …
Read More »THE BIG GAME: Sledgehammer’s dramatic revamp of Call of Duty
In the first of our weekly in-depth pieces on an upcoming blockbuster, we speak to Sledgehammer to discover why Advanced Warfare is the most exciting Call of Duty in years. A giant space ship is seen floating above an unknown planet. In the background, a woman eerily sings the children’s …
Read More »Forza 5 getting the ‘Racing Game of the Year’ treatment next month
Microsoft has unveiled a new version of Xbox One racer Forza 5. IGN reports that Forza Motorsport 5: Racing Game of the Year will be released in the US on July 22nd. That probably means July 25th in the UK. It will cost 50. The SKU includes an additional 18 …
Read More »Fantasia: Music Evolved dated
Kinect-controlled music title Fantasia: Music Evolved has been given an Xbox One and Xbox 360 release date. Destructoid reveals that the game will arrive on October 21st. That’s likely a North American release date, so expect an October 24th arrival in the UK. That places it up against some stuff …
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