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Lord of the Rings spin-off Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor debuted in second in the UK software chart last week, failing to knock FIFA 15 from number one. According to the latest Ukie games charts, compiled by GfK Chart-Track,EA’s football juggernaut saw its second consecutive weekly top spot, holding off competition …

IGN continues to be one of the biggest media outlets in the world.Dan Kilby, commercial projects and marketing manager, explains how it plans to expand further For nearly two decades IGN has remained one of the most recognisable names in games. This is partly thanks to the site’s ability to …

Two Star Wars games have been removed from both the Apple App Store and Google Play without any warning. Pocket Gamer reports that both Nimblebit’s Tiny Death Star and Disney Mobile’s Star Wars Assault Team have vanished. They were available for 11 and five months respectively. The site was told …

This last month has not been the most professionally inspiring for anyone who works in online games journalism. And while most normal humans who don’t have to spend the majority of their waking hours online may be largely unaware of the gritty details surrounding #GamerGate, if you’re in the industry …

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor has scaled to the top of this past week’s Steam best sellers chart. The game rallied from a seventh place finish during its launch last week to finish ahead of the Valve Complete Pack – which took the runner-up spot for the second week in a …

Halo franchise developer 343 Industries will pack a batch of maps previously exclusive to Windows PC into Halo: The Master Chief Collection on Xbox One. A new post on Halo Waypoint explains that six maps from the original Halo and two maps from Halo 2 will be included in the …

Undead Labs has announced its zombie survival game State of Decay has sold 2m copies across Xbox 360 and Windows PC platforms. In a post on the Undead Lab’s site, the company’s community manager Sanya Weathers waxed on how the milestone was achieved with no marketing and no advertising. "Two …

MCV chats with Ben Stevenson-Hall, assistant manager of the Cambridge branch of Forbidden Planet, about which video game properties have proved most successful for the merchandise specialist What video game merchandise do you stock, and what brands are most successful? The first thing that comes to mind is Minecraft. Minecraft …

Company claims new version of popular audio tool is biggest update since original 2006 launch

Japanese fans of survival horror master Shinji Mikami’s The Evil Within will be able to buy a limited edition PlayStation 4 featuring art from the game. That’s according to Siliconera, who says that these limited edition consoles are available to pre-order on the Sony Store. These are branded with the …