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Michael Thomasson’s officially recognised ‘world’s largest games collection’ has sold for $750,250 (442k). MCV reported earlier this month that the auction contained a 11,000+ strong collection included complete software catalogues for a range of platforms including Dreamcast, Saturn, Virtual Boy, Lynx, Jaguar, Turbo-Grafx-16 Super CD and Sega CD. Although I …

When it comes to gaming, I’m an equal opportunity offender. I don’t distinguish between platforms or get locked into owning one over another. As if you could only know the true experiential richness that games offer through the lens of a single platform. Nonsense. As I’m setting up my schedule …

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Nintendo may have had a decent E3, but it’s hard to argue that the odds remain stacked against Wii U. Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot, however, believes that the console could yet prove a success – should Nintendo cut the price. "With Mario Kart, Wii U made one step and we …

Variance Films’ Video Games: The Movie is set to premiere this July, according to a new trailer for the movie. While the trailer itself states the movie is out this summer, the video’s YouTube description states the film will see a worldwide premiere in theaters and simultaneous on demand release …

Investors have responded kindly to the latest reported results at US retail, as game companies such as Activision Blizzard and Electronic Arts are seeing strong increases in share prices this week. Games Industry reports both Activison and EA hit 52-week highs on Tuesday. At time of writing, Activision was trading …

1991 Amiga and Atari ST release Another World is landing on PlayStation 4 consoles next week, publisher The Digital Lounge has announced. PlayStation blog reveals Eric Chahi’s classic adventure game will arrive for Sony’s new hardware on June 25th, packing redrawn backdrops and a cinematic soundtrack. Though Another World (also …

When you think of video games on the cutting edge of technology, you’d probably come up with titles such as Call of Duty or GTA. You probably wouldn’t think of Ubisoft’s hit kids IP, Raving Rabbids. Ubisoft’s mad-cap mini-game series may not push the graphical limits of the latest hardware, …

Everyone’s talking about revolution, evolution, technological masturbation or format holder flagellation. Apologies to John and Yoko, but that means it must be time for E3. As ever there are many games reaching their third, fourth or even fifth iteration. Spawning so many sequels is a great testament to the success …

Future as a publishing empire is crumbling. And after posting a loss of more than 30m for the first half of the year, it is taking drastic action to rescue its business. It is selling its bike, sports and craft titles for 24m, it plans to cut 170 employees from …