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Book publisher Egmont has revealed that its best-selling official Minecraft book has sold 1m units in the UK. The firm says it is the official Minecraft titles that are proving most popular, with the best-selling unofficial book – Minecraft for Dummies – only selling 20,000 units. The statistics were revealed …

EA CEO Andrew Wilson is celebrating a year in the job, and pledging that its customers will come first in the future. "I still have a job which is an accomplishment in itself," he joked when asked by Polygon how his first year has gone. Of what his goals are …

Hunger Games film studio wants gaming to be the third pillar of its business

Research giant Juniper Research has revealed its predictions for the UK games market by 2019. The firm says that combined revenue of PC and console games will be worth $41.2bn in 2019, a slight decline over previous years, but still accounting for well over 50 per cent of the market. …

Blizzard’s free-to-play card battler Hearthstone has reached a significant player milestone. Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, as it is officially called, now has over 20m registered players. It previously had hit 10m in March but has since then added to its PC and Mac version by launching on iPad. An Android …

Konami’s PES team leader in the UK Jon Murphy has left the publisher. The industry stalwart leaves after 16 years during which he stewarded the PES brand through both the glory years and the long struggle to maintain legitimacy against rival FIFA. After 16 years at Konami I’ve decided to …

The UK games boxed market will be worth 1.98bn by 2016, Chart-Track says. The firm expects significant growth from boxed games and hardware over the next two years due to the launch of Xbox One and PS4. These are just conservative figures,” Chart-Track director Dorian Bloch said during the Games …

First crowdfunding projects will be live on October 21st

Intel Developer Blog: A rundown of the biggest announcements from the Intel Developer Forum

Torn Banner Studios is bringing its hit PC release Chivalry: Medieval Warfare to PS3 and Xbox 360 via publisher Activision, the companies revealed today in a joint announcement. The release states the game will launch on Sony and Microsoft’s last-gen consoles sometime later this year as a digital offering. The …