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GAME saw a 4.5 per cent dip in pre-tax adjusted profit in the last financial year. The final number reached 38m, down from the 39.8m in the previous year. Adjusted EBITDA earning fell 8.6 per cent to 46.9m. Group revenue was up 0.6 per cent at 866.6m, however, with UK …
Read More »‘Overly ambitious’ expansion leads Humble Bundle to cut a fifth of staff
Digital retailer Humble Bundle has been forced to let 12 of its staff members go, after the firm’s CEO admitted it had attempted to grow too quickly. Polygon, citing an anonymous source, reported that the job losses took place across the entire company last week, and accounted for around 20 …
Read More »LEGO Marvel’s Avengers will cover the events of six films
Warner’s upcoming superhero LEGO game will attempt to cover around 13 hours worth of film narrative. The publisher has revealed that LEGO Marvel’s Avengers will span the narrative played out across six of the comic powerhouse’s films – The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America, Captain America: Winter Solider, …
Read More »Ark: Survival Evolved hits 2m copies sold
Studio Wildcard’s survival adventure game Ark: Survival Evolved has sold more than two million copies on Steam. The game was released in June 2nd on Steam Early Access, and in four months has sold around 500,000 units a month on average. The title’s popularity has seen it consistently placed as …
Read More »Hearthstone knocks Dota 2 down a place in monthly Twitch rankings
The end of The International and the release of The Grand Tournament has led to Blizzard’s Hearthstone and Valve’s Dota 2 swapping places in the September Twitch charts. Riot’s League of Legends and Valve’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive retain their positions in first and second place. Bungie’s Destiny jumps four places …
Read More »LEGO Dimensions debuts in second place, outperforms Disney Infinity and Skylanders Week One sales
For the second week running, FIFA 16 holds the top spot in this week’s UK charts. Sales of EA’s football title dropped 74 per cent, but the game still outperformed Warner Bros’ first foray into the toys-to-life genre. LEGO Dimensions is the third toys-to-life game to launch this year, after …
Read More »Publishers now legally obliged to refund faulty digital goods
A new set of consumer rights laws comes into effect today that give buyers the right to a full refund on any faulty digital purchase for 30 days. This is particularly pertinent for gamers, with an increasing number of titles hitting shelves in a state many would consider to be …
Read More »GAME is taking pre-orders on a £49.99 Merge VR headset
A cut-price virtual reality headset will go on sale exclusively at GAME next month. The Merge VR headset works with iOS and Android smartphones. It will retail for 49.99 and currently has a release date of October 30th. The tech will also be available to try in some GAME stores …
Read More »GameStop: Disc-based games will be around forever
Digital is here, and digital is growing, but there is no scenario where disc-based video games will disappear from the market, according to GameStop. Disc-based games will be around forever,” CEO Paul Raines told Forbes. The market has seen physical music sales down 50 per cent from its peak and …
Read More »The next game from Stanley Parable dev is out tomorrow
Surprise! There’s another game on the way from one of the creators of The Stanley Parable. And it’s arriving very, very shortly. It’s called The Beginner’s Guide and is the first solo project from Davey Wreden. What is it and how will it play? We don’t know for the moment, …
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