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Speaking with The Telegraph, the SIE president looked back on a year of the mid-generation console and this weeks Paris Games Week showcase
Read More »PlayStation’s Jim Ryan wishes Sony had made more PS4 Pro consoles for its launch
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds could be banned in China
Breakout hit PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds could face losing access to its biggest market. Bloomberg reports that the China Audio-Video and Digital Publishing Association has declared that PUBG is “too bloody and violent” for sale in the country, “deviates from the values of socialism” and is “deemed harmful to young consumers”. The …
Read More »PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds hits Xbox and leaves PC Early Access next month
2017’s biggest hit will be arriving on Xbox One on December 12th. As it did on PC, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds will launch as an Early Access title via the Xbox Game Preview program. The Xbox version will arrive with vaulting enabled – a feature that is due to hit the PUBG …
Read More »Ryan and Cage defend violent Last of Us 2 and Detroit trailers
A fierce debate has been raging since Sony decided to portray two of its biggest upcoming titles with scenes of violence towards women. The trailers for both The Last of Us 2 and Detroit shown at Sony’s Paris Games Week showcase earlier this week depicted scenes that have upset some …
Read More »EA quarterly earnings target drops, despite high performance from EA Sports
Star Wars Battlefront 2 expected to perform well as shares drop by 3 per cent
Read More »Physical entertainment market grows for the first time since 2014
Data from Kantar Worldpanel suggests that physical games sales have enjoyed a surprise surge. UK physical entertainment spend for the quarter ending September was up 2.2 per cent across all sectors, but it was video games that saw the strongest growth – 26 per cent. That offset decline of 5.4 …
Read More »Reality Gaming Group announces development expansion
AR specialist Reality Gaming Group has hired Fiddlesticks co-founder and BAFTA Breakthrough Brit winner Henry Hoffman. Hoffman will work on the company’s underlying tech, joining existing team members Paul Mottram (lead developer) and Ben Hebb (executive producer). The company has also expanded its Philippines development hub. The studio is currently …
Read More »Super Mario Run hits 200m downloads, but is still short of Nintendo goals
Nintendo has revealed that mobile title Super Mario Run has now been downloaded 200m times. Of that total, 90 per cent have come from outside of the Japanese market. Run is initially free to download but then requires a purchase to unlock all but the earliest game content. And it …
Read More »Super Mario Odyssey sales hit 2m units
Nintendo has said that it estimates recent release Super Mario Odyssey has sold around 2m copies in its first two days on sale. That equates to a little more than one in every four Switch owners buying a copy. In the UK, Mario just missed out on the chart top …
Read More »Slingshot Esports to close doors today, lays off staff
Esports website Slingshot Esports is closing its doors today, ceasing operations after two years. CEO Joe Ragazzo posted a statement to the website on Monday, entitled“A letter to our readers.”In the post, Ragazzo mentions that Slingshot was unable to find the funding to continue to operate. Slingshot was well regarded …
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