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Remote services for mobile apps and games to be fully shut down on January 28th 2017

This year’s female-led Ghostbusters reboot will be accompanied by an Activision-published console title, it has been reported. Retail Merchandiser claims, in an interview with Sony Pictures Consumer Products senior VP Mark Caplan, that a ‘full-fledged’ Ghostbusters game is on the way to PS4 and Xbox One with an expected release …

Warner Bros’ LEGO Marvel’s Avengers has become the eighth LEGO video game to reach the top spot in the UK charts. The title is the first LEGO Marvel release to reach this milestone, after 2013’s LEGO Marvel Super Heroes debuted in second place behind Call of Duty: Ghosts. The former …

Both original and New 3DS platforms compatible, with editor aiming to ship as a plug-in

Japanese publisher Konami has revealed it has sold in six million copies of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain to retail. This figure only represents the number of units bought in by stores, and does not mean that Metal Gear Solid V has sold six million units. This figure …

Service allows creators to work on concepts suggested by the community and split revenue

Sales of boxed PC games in the UK fell by more than 36 per cent, to just over 1m games sold, in 2015. The latest statistics from GfK Entertainment show that a total of just 21.3m was spent on physical PC games last year in Britain – a drop of …

OPM Jobs' Nathan Adcock offers some advice on nailing the all-important job interview for a career in games

It’s difficult to find a title that encapsulates the current zeitgeist of the games industry as much as Edge Case’s Fractured Space. The indie studio’s debut release is a 5v5 MOBA-esque space combat title that has been developed in Steam’s Early Access. The game ticks all the modern buzzwords. Yet …

‘UK games stores made a major mistake ditching PC games.’ I’ve heard that said a few times, typically by smart PC developers who have made their fortune selling fun, affordable indie games on Steam. The numbers back up their assertion. Depending on which data supplier you believe, between 550m and …