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Retail’s hope of integrating the digital games market into its pre-owned model looks less likely than ever. There have been various effort and legal attempts to enforce the allowed trade-in and resale of digital games over the years, but GameSpot reports that GameStop COO Tony Bartel has said at the …

Mixed-reality developer focused on HoloLens is the latest venture from John Howard and fellow Microsoft veteran Sébastien Motte

The workaround that lets Oculus Rift games run on HTC Vive may be in danger. Yesterday it emerged that a third party program released on Github allows any Oculus Rift title to be played on the HTC Vive headset. The first release allows titles such as Lucky’s Tale and Dreamdeck …

Developers would be able to pay to have their iOS game appear closer to the top of rankings under new changes

Ubisoft was the hero on the High Street last month, with The Division and Far Cry Primal topping the UK charts. The Division was by far and away the biggest seller of the month, shifting almost half a million physical copies during the period. 1.72m boxed games were sold during …

There will be a Ghostbusters game for consoles and PC releasing around the same time as the upcoming film. However, while Amy Pascal and Ivan Reitman’s movie will feature four female ‘busters, Activision’s game will not follow suit. Nor will it feature the original cast from the 1984 film. In …

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CEO Michael Martinez highlights lack of ‘great distribution strategy’ as biggest failure by team

'The transition to the new machines has not been easy,' explains CEO Frank Sagnier

Breathe a sigh of relief – gamers who feared they may have lost their characters in The Division have been told their data is safe. Following the release of the game’s 1.1 patch this week some players were aghast to discover that their characters had vanished. However, the cause has …