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Early Access hit Ark: Survival Evolved has finished in first on Steam’s top ten selling products for the third straight week. The game took on all comers during the main stretch of Steam’s summer sale, finishing ahead of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Grand Theft Auto V. A discounted Elite: Dangerous …

Despite the rise of digital and various efforts by publishers to battle the popularity of pre-owned games, it looks like the sector isn’t going anywhere. UK retailer GAME seemingly agrees, following the announcement of a new deal that it hopes will ‘boost confidence’ in the trade-in and resale of used …

Puzzle & Dragons developer GungHo has wasted no time in getting its new publishing aspirations underway. Earlier this month the company revealed that it saw publishing as a good means of making use of its huge piles of cash. Now it has unveiled a deal to publish future titles from …

Numbers from sales monitor Media Create suggest that Xbox One slipped to a saddening new low in Japan earlier this month. Kotaku reports that the numbers suggest that for the week ending June 14th Xbox One sold just 100 units across the whole of Japan. That’s less than PS3 (2,633) …

Sony studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has said that the difficulty in explaining exactly what PlayStation TV is has led to the streaming devices’ failure. "It didn’t capture the consumers’ imagination," he told Game Informer. "It’s a hard concept to explain. You could say it’s a mini-console, it’s a video streaming …

The average game on Steam sells approximately 32,000 copies, according to data from Steam Spy. A new report bySergey Galyonkindigs deep into sales and usage data on Valve’s digital store. It claims that titles such as The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim have around 8.6 million users, while Grand Theft Auto …

US and Russia represent biggest markets in terms of user numbers on Valve's digital store

After the barrage of sad tales about depression caused by indies turning into millionaires overnight, allow us to raise your spirits with a story about the liberating and energizing effects of complete commercial failure.” That’s the opening to an update from Belgium-based developer Tale of Tales, which having released its …

It now looks as if the rumoured Xbox One and PS4 release for former Wii U exclusive ZombiU is real. The Australian Classification currently has a listing for a Ubisoft title called Zombi. It has been rated MA 15+ for strong horror violence, blood and gore”. Earlier this month Unseen64 …

There’s yet another problem with one of the special edition versions of Batman: Arkham Knight. Last week it was reported that the game’s 169 Batmobile Edition has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances that greatly compromised the quality of the Batmobile” vehicle that was the star of the bundle. Now …