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Studio Ghibli RPG Ni No Kuni has joined the million sellers club on home consoles. Siliconera reports that global shipments of the Level 5 developed game have now passed 1.1m units worldwide. The title was published by Namco Bandai in Europe and the US and by its developer in Japan. …
Read More »Employee Hot Seat: Codemasters
In this brand-new feature all about studio staff, we hear from Codemasters’ chief technical officer David Percival
Read More »Tomb Raider has finally "exceeded profit expectations"
A year after it was released the Tomb Raider reboot has at last exceeded Square Enix’s sales estimates. The game famously fell short of what the publisher had hoped for last year despite selling 3.4m copies in its first three weeks. Now it has not only passed targets but looks …
Read More »ME reveals first 30 Under 30
Later this monthMobile Entertainmentwill publish a brand new list of the rising stars in UK mobile – and here’s an opportunity for you to recommend yourself, a friend or colleague. 30 Under 30 is a prestigious new ranking fromMobile Entertainment,and will recognise achievements by the younger movers and shakers in …
Read More »UPDATE: South Park co-creator: Stick of Truth censorship is "stupid"
The co-creator of South Park has attacked Ubisoft for its decision to censor South Park: The Stick of Truth in some regions, including Europe. We weren’t going to change the content, so we’ve written little cards to explain what is going on, what they’ve censored, and made a joke out …
Read More »Jack Tretton to leave Sony at the end of March
SCEA president and CEO to leave PlayStation maker this month after more than 17 years
Read More »When Twitch Played Pokémon – MCV speaks to its creator
Last month an online game launched which took the gaming world by storm. Over 16 days, the title was played by over 1.16m gamers and watched by almost 10m people. At its peak, 121,000 people were watching it simultaneously. The game? It was the 1996 Game Boy classic, Pokmon Red. …
Read More »Infamous: Second Son pre-orders higher than Last of Us
Sony has revealed that Infamous: Second Son has more pre-orders than last year’s blockbuster The Last of Us had at the same point prior to launch. The upcoming super hero title is Sony’s first big PlayStation 4 game of 2014, and the publisher is putting a lot of money behind …
Read More »Naughty Dog refutes Hennig departure tension claims
Amy Hennig was in no way forced out” of developer Naughty Dog. The original report revealing the writer’s departure had claimed to have word from sources that Hennig was ‘forced out’ by The Last of Us leads Neil Druckmann and Bruce Straley”. These reports have now been strongly denied. Earlier …
Read More »Wii U version of Watch Dogs is "still alive"
Ubisoft insists that the Wii U versions of Watch Dogs is still in development. In January reports emerged claiming that the Nintendo SKU had been cancelled – claims that were later denied by Ubisoft, although not until over two weeks after the event. Watch Dogs was given a May 27th …
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