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The latest issue of MCV contains all the market data from a mixed 2013 for UK games retail. The magazine is available to download now on iPad and read online. We reveal the biggest publishers, games, consoles and accessories from 2013, plus full analysis. That’s alongside interviews with Chillingo, Square …
Read More »Plastic Surgery kids’ game removed from App Store
A game that saw players practicing plastic surgery on overweight patients has been removed from both the Apple and Google app stores. The BBC reports that the game, which went under the titles Plastic Surgery for Barbie and simply Plastic Surgery, was rated as suitable for nine year olds and …
Read More »Ouya co-founder departs microconsole firm
Company says goodbye to Muffi Ghadiali as it prepares for the "next phase" of Ouya
Read More »UK game prices at an all-time high
The average price of boxed games in the UK is at its highest point ever. GfK Chart-Track revealed to MCV that gamers on average spent 29.42 on each game, that’s a huge increase of 3 over 2012. There’s two main reasons for the increase – a reduction in the number …
Read More »Steam Controller ditches its touchpad, supports up to 16 players
The innovative controller that will ship with the upcoming range of Steam Machines has undergone an overhaul. The two touch-sensitive circle pads remain, but the central LED touch panel has been removed. Aside from the fact that touch controls on a physical controller are often criticised, Valve also wanted to …
Read More »PS4 racer DriveClub will miss console’s February Japanese launch
Former PS4 launch title DriveClub has been delayed for a second time. Kotaku reports that the game, which was once pencilled in as a launch title for the machin in the West, has now been struck off the machine’s Japanese launch roster for February 22nd. Various circumstances” were ambiguously cited …
Read More »UK games market returns to growth… sort of
The UK physical games market has grown for the first time in five years. The combined number of games, accessories and consoles sold in 2013 are down seven per cent year-on-year, but revenue generated from these products is up seven per cent over 2012 to 2.04bn. This is mostly down …
Read More »Square Enix’s latest reboot
March 6th 2013, and Square Enix’s UK team were in jubilant spirits. The publisher had just released Tomb Raider, which achieved the highest Metacritic rating since the 1996 original and went on the sell hundreds of thousands of units in a matter of days. And that followed a 2012 where …
Read More »SteamDevDays: Alienware Steam Machine targets September launch
'Things can change' but Valve's living room invasion will definitely arrive for the holiday season
Read More »SteamDevDays: Steam boasts 75m active users
Valve to support 12 new local currencies in 2014
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