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As our Indie Retail Month continues, we continue our look at the UK’s top online-only indies in the UK with Hitari. MD Kamal Hitari tells MCV how Hitari has progressed to a stage where it has its own in-house marketing team. Since starting up in 2010, Hitari has grown its …
Read More »Minecraft tops UK Xbox Live charts. Again.
Minecraft was the best selling Xbox Live Arcade game in the UK last week. Again. The game has been at the top of UK XBLA charts for 19 of the 21 weeks this year. It’s pretty much dominated the XBLA charts for 12 months. Elsewhere, Far Cry: Blood Dragon remains …
Read More »New owners for popular Bath indie retailer
Long-running indie Wireworld Game Studio, Caf and Bar has found itself new owners. After 14 years, owners Ron ‘Mac’ McKenzie and his wife Lyn had to sell the Bath store due to illness – and the couple were amazed by the response. We had a phenomenal amount of interest,” said …
Read More »Call of Duty creator Infinity Ward is ‘bigger than it has ever been’
The development team behind Call of Duty Ghosts has more staff than ever, despite losing almost 50 members of staff after a 2010 scandal. The team that created the Call of Duty and Modern Warfare brands almost collapsed following a dispute with its parent company Activision. Infinity Ward’s founders were …
Read More »Trio of Level-5 developed mobile RPGs in the works for Japan
Professor Layton and Ni No Kuni developer Level-5 is currently developing three role-playing games for mobile platforms in Japan. Polygon passes on a Famitsu report stating the studio will release all three titles before the end of 2013. The announcement comes following Level-5’s registering of a series of trademarks applying …
Read More »Ubisoft E3 line-up includes Assassin’s Creed IV, Watch Dogs
Ubisoft has announced its games line-up for E3 2013. The publisher revealed its booth will provide attendees a chance to check out a handful of upcoming titles, including Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Watch Dogs, Rayman Legends, South Park: The Stick of Truth, and Splinter Cell: Blacklist. Ubisoft is also …
Read More »Nintendo reveals Best Buy E3 demo locations
Nintendo has released the list of Best Buy stores set to demo its Wii U and 3DS E3 line-up next month. The demo stations will be open for business across over 100 US shops on Wednesday, June 12th from 4-8 pm, and again on Saturday, June 15th from 1-5 pm …
Read More »Winners of Thumbstar Games Journalism Prize announced
The winners of the Thumbstar Games Journalism Prize were named this evening. Eurogamer’s Christian Donlan was the overall winner, for his piece, Night and the City, which was also named best feature. You can read the piece, inspired by Rockstar Games’ LA Noire, here. Donlan was selected by a panel …
Read More »All PS4 games to support Vita remote play
Sony is making it mandatory for all PS4 games to support remote play on the PS Vita. The news was first reported by Digital Foundry, and has since been confirmed by Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida on Twitter. What this essentially means is that all PlayStation 4 …
Read More »Ubisoft reveals E3 2013 games line-up
Ubisoft today unveiled what is perhaps its strongest E3 line-up ever, featuring exclusive next-generation games, innovative editions of popular franchises, and new brands and titles.” The publisher will, as always, hold its own pre-E3 press conference, where it will announce and go deeper into some of its most important games …
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