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Peter Moore has questioned the uncertainties posed by GameStop about the performance of Star wars Battlefront. The retailer last month said that the game had failed to hit its already lowered sales expectations. EA’s COO, however, has said such a claim came as a surprise to him and that the …

A designer for upcoming Sega title Total War: Warhammer has said that the studio has been left a little down in the dumps by the fury that greeted its recent pre-order DLC announcement. The announcement in October that the popular Chaos race will be locked behind a pre-order paywall was …

For the past four years, PlayStation’s Shahid Ahmad has had one of the coolest jobs in the games industry. As head of the firm’s Strategic Content division, it’s been his responsibility to bring the best indie games to the platform. He signed the likes of Mike Bithell’s Thomas Was Alone, …

Nintendo’s free-to-play 3DS outing Pokmon Rumble World is to receive a microtransaction-free digital release. The boxed version, which will be released on January 22nd, will have all of the original’s in-app purchases removed. Instead, players will start with a large reserve of the in-game currency Pok Diamonds. More will then …

UKIE CEO Dr Jo Twist reveals more details about how the trade body’s new digital data deals became a reality, and why this really matters Data is the lifeblood of any digital industry. We are surrounded day to day by proclamations from all sectors that ‘data is the new oil’, …

SuperData is the new official supplier of console download data for the UK games market. But how accurate is it? And can we expect it more frequently than just monthly? We ask CEO Joost van Dreunen Tell us a bit about SuperData. We’re a New York-based games research start-up that …

Pre-orders for Capcom’s upcoming Resident Evil Origins Collection are well ahead of the publisher’s predictions. The Xbox One, PS4 and PC compilation brings together the updated edition of Resident Evil HD – which launched digitally in January 2015 – with the upcoming remake of Resident Evil 0. It’s due on …

315,000 games consoles were sold during the Black Friday week. UK retailers told MCV that it was PS4 that was the best-selling machine, with around 139,000 consoles sold. But it was very close between Sony and Microsoft, with Xbox One shifting almost 134,000 units. Note that these figures run from …

Want to add something more interesting than artwork and trivia to your loading screens? Now you can. Previously, developers were unable to integrate mini-games into their loading screens thanks to a patent filed by Namco. The patent protected the use of auxiliary mini-games while a main game was loading, as …

Reflection is offering in-depth mobile data to games developers for free. What’s the catch? MCV asks founder and CEO Gustaf Leksell Tell us about your company. Reflection provides free and accurate revenue and download intelligence to the development community. At my previous job as an app developer, we couldn’t afford …