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Former World of Warcraft lead systems designer Greg Street has accepted a lead position at League of Legends developer Riot Games. Polygon reports on Street’s updated LinkedIn profile, which lists his current job as lead game designer at Riot. Street’s Facebook page further reveals that he’s been with Riot since …
Read More »Double Fine repackages Broken Age as Season Pass offering
Double Fine has decided to forego an Early Access release of its adventure game Broken Age, instead electing to move forward with the Season Pass method for the title. The studio revealed to Kickstarter backers that it has decided to shift the point and click title into a two-act Season …
Read More »Lack of single-player presents marketing challenge for Titanfall
Consumers have become so accustomed to movie-style trailers that marketing online-only games is a big ask. That’s according to a producer at Respawn Entertainment, which has claimed that the game’s focus on 6v6 online-only multiplayer means that there isn’t much in the way of cinematic material from which a ‘traditional’ …
Read More »Multichannel sales surge as GameStop reports festive growth
GameStop has reported like-for-like sales growth of 10.2 per cent for the nine weeks ending January 4th. That breaks down as 7.1 per cent growth in the US and 17.4 per cent internationally. The chain’s total global sales were up 9.3 per cent year-on-year at $3.15bn. New hardware sales, unsurprisingly, …
Read More »Gran Turismo 6 fails to keep pace
The early success of next-gen consoles appears to have claimed a very high profile victim. OPM reports that estimates from analysis firm Cowen & Co peg Gran Turismo 6’s sales to date in America at 300,000 units. In the same period, predecessor Gran Turismo 5 sold 1,169,074 copies. For what …
Read More »UPDATE: GT Academy coming to India in February
Update:We’ve just received an invite (image below) from Sony for a joint press conference with Nissan, where the two companies will announce plans for GT Academy in India The press conference will be held in Delhi on 4th February. Original story: GT Academy, a collaboration between Sony and Nissan that …
Read More »UKIE disputes Government’s games industry shrinkage claims
The UK game industry shrunk by nearly half in 2012 compared to 2011, according to figures released by the department for Culture, Media and Sport. The economic contribution in 2012 (or gross value added) was 540 million. During 2011 however, the industry was valued at 946 million. This means there …
Read More »UPDATE: Nintendo slashes digital price of key Wii U and 3DS games
An error or a wonderfully generous sale? Either way, a host of top Nintendo IP can be had for pennies on the Nintendo Store right now. Digital versions of Wii U titles The Wonderful 101 and Pikmin 3 are currently available for 8.95 each while Animal Crossing: New Leaf and …
Read More »Meet Rust, the other sandbox alpha working its magic on Steam
DayZ isn’t the only alpha sandbox game currently selling in a very high numbers of Steam. Indeed, while Dean Hall’s zombie sim may be grabbing all the headlines there’s another game that’s also firing shots” at traditional publishing models – Rust. Developed by the team behind the successful Gary’s Mod, …
Read More »DayZ success should serve as a warning for publishers, Hall claims
Traditional publishers should be worried by the phenomenal success of DayZ, creator Dean Hall has warned. It was announced earlier today that the game has now sold 1m copies in under a month – a fact Hall described to Polygon as a ‘shots fired’ moment for those in the traditional …
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