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The UK games retail market suffered yet another poor month in February, with unit sales down 29 per cent compared with the same period last year. According to GfK Chart-Track, 2,314,424 games were sold last month, generating 55m for stores. In value, that’s almost 25 per cent down compared with …
Read More »‘Record revenues for PC games market’
China accounts for third of total revenues; global sector 'to be worth $25.5 billion by 2015', claims report
Read More »Rainbow 6’s lead devs axed by Ubisoft
Ubisoft has axed leading members of the Montreal development team behind its upcoming Rainbow 6 Patriots game, it has been revealed. As reported byGame Informer, the publisher has confirmed that creative director David Sears, narrative head Richard Rouse III, lead designer Philippe Therien and animation director Brent George have all …
Read More »Ubisoft axes creative heads behind new Rainbow 6
Lead designer and creative, animation and narrative directors removed from Patriots
Read More »Vita continues to lack traction in Japan
Sales of Sony’s PlayStation Vita in Japan barely scraped above 10,000 units last week as both Nintendo’s 3DS and its predecessor the PSP outsold it once again. Vita shifted 10,023 units between February 27th and March 4th – that’s down 1,163 units week-on-week according to Media Create. By comparison, the …
Read More »Heavy Rain dev teases next game
Quantic Dream has released the tech demo for its next project, Kara. The video, which can be seen below, shows an android girl being assembled and calibrated. When she begins to show independent thought, her manufacturers begin to disassemble her, prompting her to beg for her life. The technology is …
Read More »Sony keen on free-to-play PSN growth
PlayStation’s digital publishing arm wants developers to pitch free-to-play games for PSN, an executive at the company has said. Ted Regulski, manager of SCEA Developer Relations, said Sony has changed its philosophy and is now open to any business model”. One thing we’re working on quite a lot is free-to-play,” …
Read More »Gabe Newell joins billionaires club
Valve 'worth more than $3 billion', claim equity analysts
Read More »Asda announces Mass Effect 3 midnight openings
Supermarket chain Asda is to open over 200 stores at midnight tonight so gamers can get their hands on Mass Effect 3 the very moment it is released. Furthermore, the retailer is charging just 37.97 for the game – no strings attached. Mass Effect 3 is set to be a …
Read More »PlayStation Move ships 10m units worldwide
More than 10m units of Sony’s motion controller have made their way to retail since it launched. The platform holder’s field developer support engineer Gabe Ahn revealed this milestone to GameInformer during this week’s Game Developers Conference in 2012. While Ahn did not give a specific sales number, he did …
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