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Brand communications agency PrettyGreen is the new retained PR agency of Nintendo UK. The company will be in charge of integrated campaign support and Nintendo’s press office. The first title it will be involved with is May’s Wii U shooter Splatoon. Its other clients include Nando’s, Virgin media and John …

A second title dedicated to the upcoming Apple Watch has been unveiled, this time by UK studio Bossa. It’s called Spy Watch and it’s due out alongside the hardware, which is due for release on April 24th. The developer says it features a rich and immersive story” where players head …

NPD’s March 2015 report shows PlayStation 4 on top in a down period for hardware at US retail, while Battlefield: Hardline and Bloodborne duked it out for the top spot in a flourishing software category. While Sony declared victory over Microsoft and Nintendo in hardware, the category was down 21 …

343 Industries and Vanguard Games’ twin-stick shooter Halo: Spartan Strike has launched on Windows PC, Windows 8.1, Windows Phone and – somewhat unexpectedly – iOS. The PC version is available now via Steam, while the Windows 8.1 release can be had on the Windows Store. Meanwhile, mobile editions can be …

Star Wars Battlefront will launch this November, if what fans have unearthed from the source code for the game’s website is anything to go by. Polygon reports on the discovery of the following bit of info hidden in the source code for the news page of the game’s official site: …

Warner Bros walked away the biggest winner from this year’s MCV Awards, claiming three of the night’s most prestigious prizes. WB Games UK was crowned as the top Games Publisher and PR Team, with the firm’s hit title Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor taking the Sales Triumph trophy. Bungie and Activision’s …

PS4 exclusive Bloodborne is on track to become the most successful game in the Souls series to date, with digital sales accounting for over a tenth of its total. While it’s not a Souls game by name, of course, it’s commonly accepted that Bloodborne sits resolutely within the Souls games …

The creative director of Mortal Kombat has said that Mortal Kombat X has sold faster than any previous entry in the series’ 13-year history. Thank you everyone for making Mortal Kombat X the biggest launch in MK history,” Ed Boon said. You made the game FAR exceed our wildest expectations.” …

Feminist Frequency creator and equality advocate Anita Sarkeesian has made it into this year’s Time 100 list. [Sarkessian] became the target of vicious, misogynist harassment that included death and rape threats, pornographic vandalism of her Wikipedia page and a coordinated effort to have her Kickstarter flagged as terrorism. All of …

The cinematic director at developer NetherRealm has (somewhat ambiguously) appeared to confirm rumours that Mortal Kombat X has introduced the first ever gay character to the series. The character in question is new fighter Kung Jin, a Shaolin Monk, the origins of which are explored in one of the game’s …