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MOBA upstart Heroes of the Storm is now available to buy on the High Street at GAME. The 29.99 Founder’s Pack, which grants immediate access to the closed beta of the game, is the first time a Blizzard title has been available digitally at GAME. Heroes of the Storm will …

Online games store Hitari has opened a new brand called Hitari Technology. The site – HitariTech.co.uk – is dedicated to PC components, software, tablets, and launches with a catalogue of 62,000 products. The firm aims to be stocking 1m items within twelve months, and will continue to sign up new …

Raspberry Pi is positioned to become the bestselling UK-made computer of all time, according to a new BBC report. Ahead of Raspberry Pi 2’s launch later this month, founder Ebon Upton tells BBC that lifetime sales for Raspberry Pi have reached 4.5m – just 500,000 shy of overtaking the ZX …

Having been offline for much of the weekend, GAME’s website has returned with some additional functionality. Chief amongst them is GAME Marketplace. Revealed last year, the program allows others to sell their games through the website. As can be seen in the picture below, when viewing an item consumers will …

Octodad: Deadliest Catch has made nearly $5m in revenue after shifting 459,753 copies since its release a year ago. Developer Young Horses has revealed that its core team of nine spent 28,208 hours working on the game. The highest individual hours from a team member clocked in at 5,055. Overall …

Microconsole maker Ouya has reportedly struck a $10m investment deal with Chinese internet firm Alibaba. The Wall Street Journal indicates that Alibaba’s investment is part of a push into China’s budding console market. According to people familiar with the matter,” the two businesses have agreed on a deal that will …

From Software’s Bloodborne will be getting the PS4 console bundle treatment in Europe. A hardware SKU containing a black console, black controller and the game will arrive on March 27th alongside the release of the title itself. Pre-orders don’t appear to be up anywhere as of yet, although a listing …

The sale of games consoles is to be rolled out across the whole of China, it is claimed. Bloomberg reports that the trial period of selling console’s in the Shanghai free trade zone has been deemed a success, and local governments have now been instructed to draft rules to facilitate …

The Spanish market is one of the largest in Europe. DEV, the ‘Spanish Association for the Game and Entertainment Software Development and Publishing Industry’, estimates that the sector will achieve a value of €516 million (394m) in 2015 – an increase of more than €200 million (152.7m) on the €313.7 …

Kantar Worldpanel data has revealed the extent of Amazon’s dominance of the UK Christmas entertainment market. For the 12 weeks ending December 21st, one in four pounds spent on video games, physical music and video in the UK went to Amazon, which claimed a 25.6 per cent share of the …