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Read More »Updated: Call of Duty holds off Watch Dogs 2 to retain No.1
Updated: Ubisoft has since reached out to MCV concerning Watch Dogs 2’s boxed sales performance in the UK thus far. Original story: Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs 2 has failed to capture the top spot in its first week of release. The publisher had previously admitted that pre-orders for the title had …
Read More »Compatible Xbox 360 games re-released in Xbox One boxes
Microsoft is making the most of its market-leading backwards compatibility feature by delving into its Xbox 360 back catalogue. As spotted on Reddit, some games (in this instance, Fallout 3 and Doom 3) have been reprinted and put into an Xbox One style box. The cover banner has both the …
Read More »Version management – innovative studios explain why it is so critical to successful game development
Sven Erik Knop of Perforce Software asks game studios their best practices in managing the versions of their projects
Read More »Niantic, Twitch, Koch Media and Take-Two headline this week’s MCV
This week, we talk to the firm behind the Pokmon Go phenomenon. Having struck gold with the title, Niantic tells MCV about putting AR on the map and its plans for the mobile blockbuster. Elsewhere, Twitch discusses convention coverage, streaming from within VR and even social eating. We also talk …
Read More »Margin Makers: Guide to Skyrim merchandise
Speaking to MCV earlier this year, Bethesda’s PR and marketing chief Pete Hines said that Dishonored 2 was the most important thing for the publisher this year. But what about Skyrim’s remastered edition? Even though I think Skyrim is going to do tremendously well, I don’t think we need to …
Read More »Hamburg games studio Sviper raises second funding round
Plans to use the money to staff up, market their first game and fund the second
Read More »Guardians of the Galaxy is getting the Telltale treatment, it seems
A list of projects affected by the US voice actors strike has revealed that Telltale Games is working on a Guardians of the Galaxy title. ComicBookMovie spotted an entry for the game, which on the aforementioned document was named ‘Guardians of the Galaxy – The Video Games aka Blue Harvest …
Read More »FIFA hackers stole millions from EA, FBI believes
EA was the victim of a sophisticated hacking program that tapped into unearned FIFA coin funds. That’s what the FBI has claimed, Kotaku reports, after it came to light that it is taking four men to court for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. It is alleged that the defendants, who …
Read More »Ubisoft execs accused of insider trading
Five Ubisoft executives have been accused of selling stock in the company ahead of its announcement of two key game delays. Kotaku reports that CEO Yannis Mallat and four other executives sold shares ahead of the announcement on October 15th 2013 that both Watch Dogs and The Crew were being …
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