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Critical smash hit The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild hasn’t made it to No.1 in its first week in the UK charts. Instead, it’s Sony’s PS4 exclusive Horizon Zero Dawn that grabs the crown, beating Nintendo’s adventure title by a comfortable margin and becoming PS4’s biggest ever new …
Read More »Margin Makers: Guide to The Walking Dead merchandise
With The Walking Dead: A New Frontier landing on PS4 and Xbox One today, it’s time for retailers to update their shelves with more zombie-related items – if your shelves aren’t already inundated with Switch stuff, of course. The boxed version of the third season of Telltale’s Walking Dead series …
Read More »Playground Games sees benefit in mobile
Forza Horizon 3 studio Playground Games said it considered making games for mobile, but that it won’t be racing to abandon consoles any time soon. Speaking to MCV, CEO Gavin Raeburn stated that while mobile games have been fantastic” at widening the gaming population, Playground’s been hesitant to enter mobile …
Read More »MCV Jobs Weekly: Koei Tecmo UK appoints new general manager
Koei Tecmo also hires digital content creator and social media manager, while Bandai Namco bolsters its marketing and PR teams. Three new hires at Koei Tecmo Yusuke Okada (pictured, right) has been appointed as the new general manager for Koei Tecmo Europe. He joins from the publisher’s Tokyo headquarters, where …
Read More »Ghost Recon Wildlands sparks diplomatic tussle
The Bolivian government has apparently filed a formal complaint with the French embassy in reaction to how the country is depicted in the upcoming Ghost Recon Wildlands. Reuters reports that the South American nation is upset about its portrayal as a hub for drug traffickers. Interior Minister Carlos Romero has …
Read More »Playground Games, Ghost Recon Wildlands and Flatout 4 headline this week’s MCV
This week, MCV went to Leamington Spa to meet the team behind 2016’s hit Forza Horizon 3. Playground Games’ CEO Gavin Raeburn and creative director Ralph Fulton talk about what they have achieved and what’s coming next. In this week’s issue, we also talk to Ubisoft UK ahead of the …
Read More »HTC says it has no plans to cut Vive price
The HTC Vive will not be cutting its price to mirror the recent discount to Oculus Rift. Oculus this week announced some steep price cuts to its hardware. The Rift headset itself has been cut from $599 to $499, while the recently released Touch controllers have been halved in price …
Read More »Industry positive about Nindie Switch combo
After facing weeks of criticism over the Switch’s software line-up, Nintendo unveiled a swathe of new indie games for the console on Tuesday, bolstering the platform’s 2017 line-up with 60 ‘Nindie’ titles to arrive by the end of the year. Among them are Image & Form’s SteamWorld Dig 2, Team17’s …
Read More »Switch games taste deliberately horrendous
Is this the best bit of Switch functionality of the lot? We reckon it might be. So Kotaku does this thing called Snacktaku where it tastes and reviews food. Normally actual food, you understand. After US games journalist Jeff Gerstmann revealed via Twitter that he had indeed tasted a Switch …
Read More »GameSeek to raise Switch price back up to RRP
After honoring its Switch pre-order price of 198.50, UK retailer GameSeek has told MCV that it will be raising the price of the console to match its RRP of 279.99. We do everything we can for our customers, but keeping [Switch] at this price post-launch is impossible due to the …
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