Game industry business news

Dixons Retail’s PC gaming and components category manager Simon Urquhart has left the business. As well as handling buying for PC World and Currys’ gaming products, Urquhart was also responsible for opening Dixons Retail’s Gaming Bunker in London, which lets consumers try out the latest PCs, accessories and games. Several …

Naughty Dog has said that disc space, as opposed to hardware limitations, are proving the biggest challenge for PS4 title The Last of Us: Remastered. The PS3 original used a host of tricks such as swapping out the high-quality character models used for cut scenes with lower-details versions for gameplay. …

Publishers and platform holders no longer have to ignore one of the world’s biggest video games markets. China is open for business. Government officials have lifted the 14-year ban on consoles and production of the devices has begun in Shanghai’s free trade zone to be sold in China. In doing …

Worms developer Team17 has opened a publishing office in Nottingham. The firm expanded into third-party publishing last year, and already has a large 2014 release slate, including Light, The Escapists, Hay Ewe, Schrdinger’s Cat And The Raiders Of The Lost Quark, Overruled! and Penarium across multiple platforms. It specialises in …

The UK High Street has called on Nintendo once again to lower the price of Wii U. The retailers were speaking ahead of the arrival of a Mario Kart 8 Wii U bundle, which retails for around 250. Nintendo’s racer is expected to be one of the biggest Wii U …

Former The Witcher dev Tomasz Gop has admitted that he at one stage struggled to deal with the constant comparisons between his upcoming game Lords of the Fallen and Dark Souls. "I had a really tough time around a year ago, or even beyond that,” the executive producer told Digital …

The London Games Festival could return this year with the help from Boris Johnson. The London Mayor’s Office has splashed 50,000 on a research project to establish the state of games in the city and how potential investment from Boris’ team might stimulate growth. The Mayor’s office claims that London …

It is only a matter of time before studios are able to convince console users to splash out on in-game purchases without a major backlash. That’s according to Andrew Sheppard, president of free-to-play giant Kabam, who says history has shown studios and publishers can eventually get a hardcore audience to …

But president Andrew Sheppard says pay-to-win model is no longer viable for devs

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