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Read More »Uncharted 4 is Metacritic’s highest rated game of the year
Sony’s PS4 exclusive Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End has been crowned the best game of 2016 by reviews aggregator Metacritic. The title finished the year with a 93 per cent review rating. That does make it the second lowest rated winning game of the last five years, however, ahead of …
Read More »Global games industry earned $91bn this year, with Overwatch dominating PC and console spend
The worldwide interactive entertainment industry generated $91bn in 2016, according to a new report from SuperData Research, with mobile gaming earning the highest amount of revenue. Consumers spent $41bn on mobile gaming this year between January and November, showing a growth of 18.2 per cent year-on-year. This surpasses the total …
Read More »Digital games sales for November up 13%, earning $6.7bn overall
Digital game sales worldwide generated $6.7bn in revenue in November 2016, an increase of 13 per cent year-on-year, according to a new report from SuperData Research. Mobile, premium, PC, console and free-to-play MMOs all experienced year-year-on-year growth in November, but console games were the biggest winner, gaining 35 per cent …
Read More »Overwatch comic containing a gay character is censored in Russia
Comic censored to avoid falling foul of infamous Russian "gay propaganda" laws
Read More »Game developer Brianna Wu suggests she’ll run for Congress in 2018
Wu posts photo to Facebook bearing slogan: "She fought the Alt.Right and won. Now she’s fighting for all of us. Fearless leadership for 2018.”
Read More »Super Mario Run hits 40m downloads in just four days
Nintendo has revealed that Super Mario Run has been downloaded over 40m times since it launched on December 15th last week. It reached this milestone after just four days on the iOS App Store. This makes it the fastest app to reach this figure in such a short period of …
Read More »Evolved Talent Agency signs up Mithy, JDM, Quas and tarik
A group of industry pros including video game and eSports lawyer Ryan Morrison, head of Multi-Channel-Network Paragon Sebastien Delvaux, executive man Trevor Snowden, eSports agent Barry Lee, and law firm partner Jason Greenglass has created the Evolved Talent Agency and aims to represent eSports stars. The agency will, according to …
Read More »Splatoon art book confirmed for the US
Nintendo hardback The Art of Splatoon has confirmed for a 2017 release in the US. The Dark Horse published 320-page book has been a hit overseas, and is now available to pre-order on Amazon for $39.99 ahead of its June 13th 2017 release date. There’s no word yet on UK …
Read More »Microtransactions added to Forza Horizon 3
Forza Horizon 3 players now have the option of buying cars with real cash instead of earning it in game. A new range of microtransactions starts at 79p – that gets you 100 tokens. This then steps up to 2.49 (325 tokens), 4.19 (575), 8.39 (1,250), 16.74 (2,700), 41.74 (8,000) …
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