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UK High Street retailers have dropped the price of 2K shooter Battleborn just in time for the arrival of Blizzard’s rival team shooter Overwatch. Supermarkets such as Sainsburys and Tesco have dropped the game to 30. Online retailers such as Amazon, GAME, ShopTo, Gameseek and GameStop have all dropped their …
Read More »‘Final Fantasy Disease’ threatened series’ future, director says
Hajime Tabata, the director of Final Fantasy XV, has admitted that he had a fight on his hands to implement the sort of modernisation needed to secure the RPG series’ future. Speaking to 4Gamer in an interview translated by Kotaku, Tabata talked of what he calls a ‘Final Fantasy disease’ …
Read More »Week one sales of Uncharted 4 reach 2.7m worldwide
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End looks on track to be a fitting commercial send off for the series. Sony has said that combined physical Blu-ray and digital sell-through of the game worldwide since its launch last week has hit 2.7m units. The game is the fastest selling first party PS4 …
Read More »Ubisoft UK promotes key PR and marketing staff
The Division publisher has announced four promotions within its UK marketing team. PR executive David Burroughs has been promoted to junior PR manager. He will be taking the lead on the Just Dance franchise over the next year. After spending over a year as marketing exec, Will Buck is now …
Read More »Why Jagex, PlayStation and more are supporting students through Brains Eden
The organisers of the upcoming games festival discuss why these events are vital to finding future talent for the industry
Read More »Avanquest now ‘100% focused on games’ after name change
Publisher Avanquest is now entirely dedicated to video games. The UK firm used to publish a number of non-game software, but that has now changed following the firm’s acquisition by US publisher Maximum Games. Avanquest will now be called Maximum Games, and its line-up for the year includes PS4 and …
Read More »Dev speaks out on SimCity’s 2013 implosion
The launch of SimCity in 2013 has become one of gaming’s most infamous online cock-ups. The Maxis title arrived alongside a huge amount of hype, but the decision to require that even single player users log onto EA’s systems to access their game led to millions being unable to play …
Read More »Oculus blocks Rift game workaround, creator responds by bypassing DRM completely
Revive previously allowed players to run any Rift exclusive on HTC Vive, with latest version removing the need to legitimately own games
Read More »Ex-Lionhead art director joins Sumo Digital
Kelvin Tuite moves to studio working Crackdown 3 and Dead Island 2
Read More »ELEAGUE will be broadcast on Twitch thanks to multi year deal
Turner and WME | IMG, the two companies running ELEAGUE, have partnered with Twitch in order to broadcast the upcoming competition on the streaming platform. The multi year deal means all the live matches from ELEAGUE will be broadcast on Twitch along with on demand content. Each week will see …
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