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Read More »Ratchet & Clank scores second UK No.1
Sony’s Ratchet & Clank series continues to hold the No.1 position in the Gfk Top 40. The action platformer, which became the fastest-selling game in the franchise’s history last week, suffered a 49 per cent sales drop week-on-week. It may sound like a significant drop, but that’s a pretty decent …
Read More »Romero and Carmack cancel Blackroom Kickstarter
The Kickstarter for a new FPS from the co-creator of Doom has been cancelled. The crowdfunding campaign for Blackroom only went live on Monday and had in the four days that followed received backing of over $130k, toward its goal of $700k. However, John Romero and Id Software co-founder Adrian …
Read More »PlayStation headlines Interface and wants to partner with VR and PS4 devs
PlayStation wants to find new PS4 and PlayStation VR games, and it is heading to Interface next week to do it. If you are an independent studio that wants to meet Sony Interactive Entertainment and show off your new VR/console game, sign up to Interface right here. The event takes …
Read More »Curve’s new business development manager will be signing indie games at Interface next week
Rising games publisher Curve has recruited John Vega as its new business development manager. Vega will be attending Interface next week, and is on the hunt for new indie games for Cuve to publish. Vega joins from Playjam where he managed publisher and developer relations. He acquired over 100 titles …
Read More »80% of UK games firms want to remain in the EU
Just three per cent aligned with a ‘Brexit’, while the rest were undecided
Read More »Nolan Bushnell signs with Spil Games for three title deal
One of the founding fathers of video games is moving into mobile development thanks to a newly-inked partnership. Nolan Bushnell is best known as one of the founders of Atari, the developer of iconic titles such as Pong, Breakout and Asteroids, as well as its eponymous line of home consoles. …
Read More »MCV Jobs Weekly: New marketing exec for Koei Tecmo
Nathan Mills joins from Stature PR, IGN’s Daniel Krupa is promoted to UK managing editor and GameSpot appoints a new video producer. Koei Tecmo hires new marketing exec The Dead or Alive publisher has hired Nathan Millsas its new PR and marketing executive for the UK. Mills stated: After obtaining …
Read More »PS4 hits 40m; PSN made more money than Nintendo last year
Sony has revealed that it sold 17.7m PS4 consoles in its last financial year. That number was better than forecast and represents PS4’s best year yet. That brings total sell in for the machine to 40m units, Twitter’s ZhugeEX calculates. At the same stage in its lifecycle, the PS2 had …
Read More »CyberConnect2 to open Montreal studio, self-publish next game
‘I believe there are still many foreigners that would like to have a shot at Japanese-style creativity, says president and CEO Hiroshi Matsuyama
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