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Square Enix has retained the top spot in the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 listings despite a 72 per cent week-on-week dip in sales for adventure outing Tomb Raider. In doing so it successfully fended off the advances of three new releases – God of War: Ascension, Starcraft …
Read More »UK game industry returns to growth
Games employment up four per cent in 2012 after three years of decline
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Computer science department offers new program to boost recruitment
Read More »League of Legends sees another massive player spike
League of Legends developer Riot Games has announced its MOBA sensation is now peaking in excess of 5m concurrent players. PCGamersN reports Riot’s latest figure dwarfs Steam’s biggest offering, Dota 2, at just 300k concurrent players. In fact, Steam itself just recently hit 6.6m concurrent users; so the eSports hit …
Read More »Duke Nukem II iOS release to mark 20th anniversary
Apogee Software’s 1993 release Duke Nukem II will land on iOS next month. Nukem’s 2D platformer sequel, originally launched on MS-DOS, will be priced at $1.99 and will work on iPhone 4S and newer iOS devices. "Before Duke Nukem 3D, before the sunglasses, before the one-liners, and before the strippers …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: March 10-16
The Alpha version of Arma 3 has nabbed the top spot in consecutive weeks on Steam’s latest top sellers chart. Bohemia’s upcoming realistic FPS retains its crown a week after its number one debut, while pre-orders for Bioshock Infinte have the game climbing two spots to the runner-up position. Tomb …
Read More »MCV Jobs Weekly: Activision promotes Stackhouse, top vacancies
In MCV’s weeklyrundown of the hottest vacancies and latest personnel news, industry veteran Roy Stackhouse heads up Activision UK and we look at the best job opportunities. Stackhouse takes charge at Activision Roy Stackhouse is the new general manager of Activision’s UK and Ireland division, replacing interim boss Andrew Brown.Brown …
Read More »The top five game job vacancies (15.03.13)
This week we look over a quintet of vacancies at UK triple-A game development studios and tech giants
Read More »Microsoft Surface sales pegged at just 1.5m – report
Just 1.5m Surface tablets have been sold since the hardware’s launch in October, according to reports. Bloomberg claims to have word from insiders who reckon that sales of the entry-level Surface RT version stand at just over a million units while sales of the Surface Pro, which was released last …
Read More »Wii U discounting continues – Premium now available for £244.97
Retail has dropped Nintendo’s Wii U to an all-time low in an effort to inject some momentum into the console. GameStop.co.uk is offering the Premium 32GB version for just 244.97 for this weekend only. That’s a price drop of 55. The news comes after Amazon yesterday slashed the price of …
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