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Upcoming Android console and PC gaming streaming device Nvidia Shield has been given an official release date. The handheld will cost $350 in the US and be released at some point in June. Shield has two main functions – it’s a fully operable Android gaming device and will also stream …
Read More »GungHo’s Puzzle & Dragons makes $3.76m per day
Japanese smartphone game Puzzle & Dragons is making some serious cash for owner GungHo. Serkantoto.com reports that the iOS and Android game made an eye-watering $133m in April alone, according to GungHo president Kazuki Morishita. That equates to a staggering $3.76m per day. GungHo’s overall sales reached 12bn ($199m) in …
Read More »The UK’s Best New Indie Retailers: Stark Computers
Our Indie Retail Month in association with Gem continues to look at the UK’s top new indie retailers with Stark Computers, one of the youngest stores in the category. MCV talks to Mark Ainsley about how the store has already outgrown its floor space. Stark Computers only opened in December …
Read More »Xtra-Vision calls in receivers, announces 20 store closures
Irish entertainment retailer Xtra-vision has gone into receivership. InsideIreland reports that Ernst and Young’s Luke Charleton and Colin Farquharson have been appointed as joint receivers. The pair are actively seeking a buyer for the chain and claims to already be in talks with a number of interested parties”. Its first …
Read More »The UK’s Best New Indie Retailers: ThatGameShop
MCV and Gem kick off Indie Retail Month this week with the top new indies on the High Street. Over the last 12 months, the UK games market has lost almost 650 High Street stores. But the actual number of individual retailers has increased. Blockbuster, HMV and GAME still exist, …
Read More »UPDATED: GAME paid fees of £3.2m in months following buyout; New stores planned
The new-look Game Retail was forced to pay owners OpCapita a significant sum in the months following its buyout despite continuing to post a loss. The Telegraphreports that GAME posted a loss of 18.2m in the four months following its buyout last April – but in the same period still …
Read More »GeForce GTX 700 series detailed; significant performance boost not expected
The first of Nvidia’s new GTX 700 graphics cards could be released as soon as next week. And for the first time we’ve now got a reasonably good idea of what shape the line-up will assume. Fudzilla reports that the entry-level GTX 760 Ti will effectively be a rebranded GTX …
Read More »Dead Island: Riptide claims its second UK no.1
Deep Silver’s Dead Island: Riptide has topped the UKIE GfK Chart-Track UK All Formats Top 40 for the second week in a row. All in all it’s a largely uneventful week in the listings with the highest new entry at 26th – Sony’s Vita title Soul Sacrifice. There are re-entries …
Read More »Minecraft: Pocket Edition hits 10m sales
The iOS/Android version of Minecraft has reached a major milestone, selling 10m units since launching in August 2011. Mojang shared the significant sales figure for Minecraft: Pocket Edition in an official company post –adding that several feature additions are in the works for the mobile version. Some of the new …
Read More »High price rumoured for Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 780; Possible release this month
Do you want the good or the bad news? Ok, the good then. Remember the rumours last month that Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 700 series graphics cards wouldn’t be released until 2014? Well, it looks now like they may have been incorrect. And quite wildly incorrect too. Word on the street …
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