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EA Canada follows in second place thanks to EA Sports UFC 2, while Remedy Entertainment manages just fifth despite the success of Quantum Break
Read More »Street Fighter V has sold 1.4m units
Capcom has revealed that Street Fighter V has sold 1.4 million copies since its February launch. That’s according to a listing on the firm’s finance website, which lists the sales performance of various games – flick through to the fourth page to find Street Fighter V. That figure includes both …
Read More »LucasArts, Eidos and Secret Level artist Clarence Johnson passes away
Colleagues and friends remember former Star Wars: Starfighter, The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct and Ghostbusters: The Video Game developer as ‘the guy you wanted to have around’
Read More »2K’s Battleborn scores UK No.1
Battleborn narrowly beat Call of Duty: Black Ops III to take the UK Top Spot this week. It achieved the feat by just 100 units, although these charts do not factor in digital sales, and so the real gap was likely much wider. Battleborn was the fourth best-selling game on …
Read More »Next Battlefield title called Battlefield 1, set in World War One
The next entry in EA’s Battlefield series is taking the franchise to World War One and will be hitting shelves this October. The new title – Battlefield 1 – is set for release on PS4, Xbox One and PC (via Origin) on October 21st. Players will be able to fight …
Read More »Epic will avoid developing single-player games in order to maintain its independence
'The economics of those games forces developers to work with major publishers to succeed, and that seems to be irreversible,' says Tim Sweeney
Read More »#FollowFriday all of the Develop Awards 2016 Finalists here
Where to find all of our shortlisted studios and firms on Twitter
Read More »Trion Worlds ditches free-to-play model for Atlas Reactor because ‘it’s less fun’
Multiplayer title will now be sold using premium price points at $30, $60 and $100
Read More »Evidence builds behind disc-less Nintendo NX
Upcoming console rumoured to instead use game carts similar to 3DS handheld
Read More »Activision dismisses COD trailer backlash
The negativity being heaped on the trailer for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare online is nothing new and nothing to worry about, Activision has said. The short has received an additional 100,000+ dislikes since yesterday, but speaking to investors, CEO Eric Hirshberg has tried his best to put a positive …
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