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Many UK and American players were left unable to log into Xbox Live over the weekend. "We are still hard at work fixing the issue members are having signing in to Xbox Live,” a statement read. Rest assured we have every available resource working on fixing the problem." It also …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: April 6-13
Valve has revealed Steam’s top selling products chart for the week ending on April 13th. Strategy update Age of Empires II HD takes the top spot, beating out a rare tie for the runner-up spot with a heavily discounted Dishonored sharing space with Bioshock Infinite. The Walking Dead rises again …
Read More »More EA layoffs reported at Galway office
EA has cut a number of staff at its customer service branch in Galway. Ireland-based trade outlet The Journal reports on the redundancies, adding that they take place just seven months after the firm announced it would create 300 new positions in the country. When asked for a statement, EA …
Read More »Retail version of Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition delayed
The retail launch for Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition has been pushed back to June. Major Nelson revealed on Twitter that the US release date had been moved from April 30th to June 4th – in effort to match the current downloadable equivalent’s latest version. FYI: In order to include the …
Read More »Alone in the Dark studio Eden Games closes
Atari shuts down French developer after 15 years
Read More »IAP IN PICTURES: 10 games that broke the in app payment mould
The Office of Fair Trading this morning announced that it is to investigate in app purchase strategies employed by video games publishers. The move is a result of concerns that some customers – primarily children – are unwittingly spending sizable sums on content in games which, when they are initially …
Read More »OPINION: Office of Fair Trading’s F2P scrutiny mustn’t be a witch hunt – but must be honest
Forgive me for opening with an ‘As a parent’ introduction. But as a parent, I know all to well the perils and concerns about children and content found on screens and online. My son, not even three yet, knows his way around an iPad. There are some games on there …
Read More »Free-to-play Tekken Card Tournament passes 1m downloads
Namco Bandai’s free-to-play spin off for the Tekken series has been downloaded for smartphones and tablets more than 1m times. Tekken Card Tournament was released on iOS and Android last week and passed the 1m milestone after just four days on release. It is also available to play in web …
Read More »Free-to-play Ridge Racer: Driftopia announced for PC, PS3
Ridge Racer is going free-to-play. The follow-up to last year’s Ridge Racer: Unbounded is going the micro-transactions route, allowing players to get into the action for free, with the option (or compulsion) of paying for cars, boosters, repairs, etc. "At Namco Bandai Games, we are committed to embracing new business …
Read More »Celebrate 25 years of Mastertronic
April 1st, 2013 marked the 25th anniversary of the Mastertronic Group, the long-serving UK publisher and distributor that began life as The Producers. MCV and Mastertronic have teamed up to celebrate this milestone with a series of features exploring the company’s past, present and future. The full features can be …
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