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The developers of The War Z have revealed a key gameplay feature for its upcoming ‘Not DayZ’ survival horror title. The War Z will, like its close rival DayZ, rob players of all of their progress when they die. But it also plans to go a stage further, thanks to …
Read More »Newell: Copying Apple will hasten Microsoft’s decline
Valve boss concerned Windows 8 will undermine Steam
Read More »Female gamers are 4x more likely to be harassed online than men
The sad truth of sexism amongst on line gamers has been laid bare by a new report. A study published on PriceCharting, which surveyed over 800 online gamers, says that 63.3 per cent of all female participants had been taunted or harassed while playing online. Common slurs included ‘c*nt’, ‘bitch’, …
Read More »Sleeping Dogs is back at No.1 in the UK charts
The chart success fort Square Enix’s Sleeping Dogs is not over yet. Having had to make way for NCsoft’s Guild Wars 2 in last week’s listings, Sleeping Dogs is back at No.1 in the latest charts, although it did this despite a 42 per cent week-on-week drop in sales. Guild …
Read More »Skyrim is a phenomenon – and Hines wants Dishonored to be too
MCV asks Bethesda’s PR and marketing VP asks if the smash hit RPG has changed the publisher’s ambitions… Were you expecting the numbers you saw with Skyrim? Not at all. We expected it to do really well, but none of us expected it to explode like it did. Although I …
Read More »Sony working with Bethesda on Skyrim: Dawngaurd fix for PS3
PS3 owners are facing the very real possibility of missing out completely DLC release Dawnguard. The download has been available for Xbox 360 for some weeks and arrived on PC a few days ago. It is the first DLC for the game and sees players taking on a vampire Lord …
Read More »Report: Steam Big Picture open beta imminent
Steam’s Big Picture mode will hit open beta early this week, if a report from The New York Times is to be believed. Over the weekend the mainstream news outlet ran a profile piece on Valve, which among other items claimed Valve’s effort to bring PC gaming to the living …
Read More »XBLA Summer of Arcade sales disappoint
Xbox Live Arcade’s Summer of Arcade promotion apparently didn’t carry the same appeal this year as it has in the past. Eurogamer’s examination of a Gamasutra report reveals generally low first week player figures for the promotion’s titles. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD – 98,000 players Deadlight – 53,000 players …
Read More »Darksiders II moves 247,000 units in US during August
A notable bit of info has made its way out of last month’s NPD report: The software division’s chart-topper Darksiders II moved just 247,000 units during the period. The NPD Group passed the revealing figure onto GI.biz late last week. It points to how comparably weak the retail market is …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: September 2-8
Valve has released Steam’s latest top ten products chart, with Counter-Strike: Global Offensive once more coming out ahead. The order of things may have remained undisturbed had it not been for the introduction of XCOM: Enemy Unknown to the chart. Pre-orders for the game have it making a strong debut …
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