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Read More »Sub-£200 price is crucial to NX success, says UK retail
UK retail buyers have told MCV that they have ‘high hopes’ for Nintendo’s new console, but only if it’s affordable. Every retailer surveyed says that a sub-200 price tag will be ‘essential’ if Nintendo hopes to stage a comeback in the console market. The games industry sorely misses a strong …
Read More »Develop Studio Sales Chart: The Force is strong with TT Games in July
Lego games dev was last month’s most valuable studio thanks to latest Star Wars tie-in
Read More »App Store developers have made more than $50 billion, Apple reveals
CEO Tim Cook adds that July 2016 saw a record-breaking amount of money earned by devs
Read More »Pokémon, Mario and Zelda headline NX ‘dream’ line-up
Nintendo is putting together a triple-A software line-up, to ensure NX flies out of the gate next year. Developer Game Freak will bring Pokmon to the platform, while Nintendo’s first party titles include the previously announced Zelda game – Breath of the Wild – and a new Mario game. All …
Read More »Deus Ex: Mankind Divided sparks controversy (again) over ‘Augs Lives Matter’ art
Brand director calls widely criticised reference to Black Lives Matter movement an ‘unfortunate coincidence’
Read More »NX, Vive and Star Wars headline this week’s free MCV magazine
In the latest edition of MCV, we uncover some of the key games designed to launch NX. Nintendo is putting together a triple-A line-up for the console, including a Pokmon title, a new Mario game and the previously announced Zelda title, Breath of the Wild. We also talked to studios …
Read More »Deus Ex brand director defends ‘Augs Lives Matters’
Square Enix’s upcoming Deus Ex: Mankind Divided has stoked the fire once again by drawing on another controversial topic in its marketing. A little over a year ago the game was dragged into controversy over its use of the term ‘Mechanical Apartheid’ in its positioning of a future where mankind …
Read More »Worldwide Pokemon Go revenue passes $160m, report claims
Niantic’s Pokemon Go has, in less than a month, surpassed $160m in global App Store and Google Play revenue. That’s according to analytics firm Sensor Tower. This is a number that is set to increase further, too, what with the Chinese and Brazilian rollouts yet to happen. Furthermore, despite the …
Read More »F2P Survival of the Fittest is being folded back into Ark: Survival Evolved
Ark: Survival Evolved’s free-to-play spin-off Survival of the Fittest is being reintegrated into the main game. On a technical level it will still exist as its own game, and those who have already played it will not have to buy the main game to continue. The change will enable developer …
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