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Octodad: Deadliest Catch has made nearly $5m in revenue after shifting 459,753 copies since its release a year ago. Developer Young Horses has revealed that its core team of nine spent 28,208 hours working on the game. The highest individual hours from a team member clocked in at 5,055. Overall …

There was much excitement – unnecessarily, it now seems – about a possible announcement for Metal Gear Solid: Revengeance 2 over the weekend. A logo of the number ‘2′ was shown on screen as part of a PS4 trailer aired at Sony’s booth at the Taipei Game Show, Gematsu reports. …

A remastered edition of Quantic Dream’s 2005 interactive narrative game Indigo Prophecy has launched on PC and mobile platforms. As we found out last week when its PC retail listing turned up, the new version’s title mashes the international moniker Fahrenheit together with the North American name Indigo Prophecy. The …

Scottish eSports player Stephen ‘Snoopeh’ Ellis has said that he envisages a time where a union for professional video game players may become a necessity. Ellis, who has played League of Legends professionally for four years, has admitted in a Reddit AMA that he has now retired and sees his …

An episodic video game adaptation of the recently-concluded FX drama Sons of Anarchy is now available on Apple’s App Store. The first episode – dubbed Sons of Anarchy: The Prospect – arrives just a couple months after development of the game was announced by developer Orpheus Interactive. Sons of Anarchy: …

15 years ago, another woman on this Brit List – Lis Naylor – put Amanda Farr forward for a role at GT Interactive. The company was looking for a marketing manager for their back catalogue of products. Suffice to say, Farr got the job and she has since gone on …

Grand Theft Auto V took the top spot for the second straight week, and Dying Light earned two top ten finishes on this week’s Steam best sellers chart. Techland’s survival horror game finished in the runner-up spot, while its aforementioned ultimate edition grabbing seventh place. Sony’s H1Z1 continues to hang …

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Shelly Pearce has been one of the faces of Nintendo for over 16 years. She began as UK PR manager for THE Games – Nintendo’s UK distributor – in 1998, just after the launch of Goldeneye, and went on to handle the arrival of Pokmon in Britain. From there she …