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Culture of overwork in games is causing burnout, depression and anxiety at the bottom end of the games industry
Read More »Anna Hollinrake: “We need to stop glamourising overwork as a badge of honour”
BELONG arenas and competitive gaming events grow for GAME
GAME’s initiative to install gaming arenas in some of its stores looks to be going well based on recent figures. GAME just announced that the arenas clocked up 155,000 hours of play in the 23 weeks leading up to the 6th of January. That’s a utilisation level of 28.2 per …
Read More »Margot James appointed as Minister for Digital and Creative Industries
The games industry has a new key minister of state. Margot James has been appointed as Minister for Digital and Creative Industries, following a wider government reshuffle. James previously was Minister for Small Business, Consumers and Corporate Responsibility at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy for two years. …
Read More »GAME’s UK Christmas takings up 2.9% thanks to Switch, VR and Xbox One X
Christmas 2017 was undoubtedly a happier period than last year. GAME today reported that its GTV figure (Gross Transaction Value) over the peak trading period (1st November to 6th of January) was up by 2.9 per cent. Something it attributed to a stronger hardware lineup and superior games. Martyn Gibbs, …
Read More »Dragon Ball FighterZ tournament at Stamford Bridge to celebrate title’s launch
Bandai Namco will celebrate the launch of its upcoming fighting game with a public event at Chelsea’s stadium in West London. The date is set for the 26th of January and the event will run from 12pm till 10pm – with tournament check in starting at 4pm. Attendees will also …
Read More »Green Man Gaming launches automatic key redemption for Ubisoft’s Uplay
Online retailer Green Man Gaming announced yesterday a new partnership with Ubisoft to integrate its Uplay PC platform. Going forwards, players who purchase Ubisoft games on Green Man Gaming will be able to automatically redeem and add these titles to their Uplay PC library. This automatic game activation feature means …
Read More »Twitch signs third-party broadcast deal for Blizzard’s Overwatch League, for a reported $90m
Late on Tuesday, Blizzard announced a two year streaming deal between Twitch and Blizzard’s Overwatch League that will see every match broadcast on Twitch’s streaming platform. The league, which kicks off on Wednesday 10 January, will be broadcast from Twitch.tv/overwatchleague, with Twitch becoming the third-party streaming provider for Overwatch League’s …
Read More »Glu Mobile sells off Russian studio for $2.8m
Retaining rights to several games developed there
Read More »Mario Kart 8 Deluxe topped last Japanese charts of 2017
Nintendo unsurprisingly won Christmas in Japan. What’s more surprising is that it topped the last weekly charts of the year with a title that released back in April, with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe charting at No.1 (according to sales data collected by Famitsu from December 25th to 31st 2017). With …
Read More »Sony sold 5.9m PS4 over the holidays – pushing global total to 73.6m
Christmas 2017 was not as jolly as the previous one for Sony. The platform holder announced that it has sold 5.9m PS4 consoles worldwide between the end of November and December 31st 2017. This figure include both PS4 and PS4 Pro consoles and is a slight decrease compared to last year’s …
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