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SuperData has updated its VR headset shipment figures and Samsung’s Gear VR headset is once again the most shipped headset in Q1, according to the research firm’s estimates. In Q1, the Gear VR shipped 782,000 units through to consumers and businesses, says SuperData, making it by far and away the …

Job Simulator developer Owlchemy has said that It believes platform exclusivity should be avoided when possible. Its game has been one of the early successes in the virtual reality sector, and CEO Alex Schwartz has said that part of this success has been down to the company’s efforts to ensure …

Nintendo is to increase Switch production in order to meet rising consumer demand as it approaches the holiday season, the platform holder has announced. "[Switch] continues to be sold out practically worldwide," Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima told investors during its financial results briefing presentationtoday. "Our initial plan was to ship …

A notoriously shoddy but undeniably appealingly quirky Sega CD game that uses Full Motion Video (FMV) is getting a surprise re-release on PS4 and Xbox One. Night Trap was first released in 1992 and was notable for utilising Sega’s then flashy new disc format to offer actual video footage in-game. …

The global video games market is expected to grow by 7.8 per cent in 2017. That’s according to Newzoo’s Global Games Market Report, which predicts that total worldwide games revenue will reach $108.9bn this year. Digital games will account for $94.4bn of this. Mobile will be the most lucrative segment, …

Despite the decline in physical game sales causing problems for retailers such as GameStop, new data from Kantar Worldpanel shows a slight uptick in the sector in Q1 2017. UK physical game sales were up 0.5 per cent year-on-year for the 12 weeks ending March 12th. In contrast, physical music …

The public spat between Gearbox and key reseller G2A has taken another twist. Gearbox recently got itself into a pickle by teaming up with G2A for the promotion of Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition. It was only after going public that Gearbox seemed to become aware of G2A’s controversial background. It …

From its origins and the nichest of niche RPGs, Persona 5 can now credibly lay claim to being a mainstream hit. Publisher Atlus has announced that it has shipped 1.5m copies of the game worldwide. Around half a million of these were accounted for during the game’s Japanese launch in …

Retailer GameStop is investigating claims that credit card and customer data from its website is up for sale on the black market. GameStop recently received notification from a third party that it believed payment card data from cards used on the GameStop.com website was being offered for sale on a …

Just over a month after lifting the lid on the GTX 1080 Ti PC graphics card, Nvidia has already toppled it from the top of the pack with an even faster GPU. The GTX Titan XP houses a full version of the GP102 chipset that has to date only been …