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Dear UK Games Industry, We have been lying to you, and we have had enough. Last week, the No.1 game in the UK charts was not the most popular game. The Chinese Room should have been celebrating its first No.1 with Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture. Just as this week, …

Next week, we will not be running a charts section within MCV Magazine. The two pages we devote to charts aren’t good enough. The Steam charts are global, and Valve hasn’t responded to our requests for a UK-focused Top Ten. Microsoft kindly supply us with an Xbox Live chart, but …

GfK Chart-Track has warned the games industry that it might lose its best PR tool if it fails to share digital data. The firm, which operates the UK Top 40, says it is ready to support downloads in its chart, but that it’s up to the games industry to want …

The world’s biggest games publishers refused to comment on whether they would be willing to share download data. MCV contacted every major games publisher to ask if they would like a digital chart. And although two firms admitted that including download data in an overall chart is something they would …

Two major British indie releases would have entered the All-Formats charts this week if digital figures had been counted. Volume, the new game from Mike Bithell, would have at least made the Top Ten, according to MCV sources. It comes a week after Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture, the PS4 …

Minecraft is finally coming to a Nintendo console. Sort of. Despite seeming on the face of it to be a perfect fit for Nintendo’s often younger and certainly more family-friendly demographic, Minecraft remains MIA on all Nintendo systems. That’s despite appearances on a vast array on platforms, from last-gen to …

This week, MCV is launching its Digital Counts campaign in an effort to get publishers to share their digital sales data. While major publishers remain silent on the matter, indie developers The Chinese Room and Mike Bithell have missed out on chart positions in digital charts farce And Chart-Track warns …

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Sales of pre-owned Dreamcast consoles have ‘gone through the roof’ since Shenmue III was announced at E3. Indie retailers have told MCV that sales of Sega’s last console have skyrocketed since the LA-based trade show. That’s in addition to software sales of the original two Shenmue games, as well as …

Remastered versions of Turok: Dinosaur Hunter and Turok 2: Seeds of Evil are heading to PC, courtesy of Night Dive Studios. According to the developer, both games will be re-released with enhanced graphics and other improvements. No word on a release or pricing info yet, but the titles have been …