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Preloaded's Sandy Lockie takes a look at the top serious games of last year and their impact on the game industry

GameStop has reported like-for-like sales growth of 10.2 per cent for the nine weeks ending January 4th. That breaks down as 7.1 per cent growth in the US and 17.4 per cent internationally. The chain’s total global sales were up 9.3 per cent year-on-year at $3.15bn. New hardware sales, unsurprisingly, …

The early success of next-gen consoles appears to have claimed a very high profile victim. OPM reports that estimates from analysis firm Cowen & Co peg Gran Turismo 6’s sales to date in America at 300,000 units. In the same period, predecessor Gran Turismo 5 sold 1,169,074 copies. For what …

Update:We’ve just received an invite (image below) from Sony for a joint press conference with Nissan, where the two companies will announce plans for GT Academy in India The press conference will be held in Delhi on 4th February. Original story: GT Academy, a collaboration between Sony and Nissan that …

The UK game industry shrunk by nearly half in 2012 compared to 2011, according to figures released by the department for Culture, Media and Sport. The economic contribution in 2012 (or gross value added) was 540 million. During 2011 however, the industry was valued at 946 million. This means there …

An error or a wonderfully generous sale? Either way, a host of top Nintendo IP can be had for pennies on the Nintendo Store right now. Digital versions of Wii U titles The Wonderful 101 and Pikmin 3 are currently available for 8.95 each while Animal Crossing: New Leaf and …

DayZ isn’t the only alpha sandbox game currently selling in a very high numbers of Steam. Indeed, while Dean Hall’s zombie sim may be grabbing all the headlines there’s another game that’s also firing shots” at traditional publishing models – Rust. Developed by the team behind the successful Gary’s Mod, …

But UKIE claims figures do not represent entire sector, as report also casts doubts on own findings

Traditional publishers should be worried by the phenomenal success of DayZ, creator Dean Hall has warned. It was announced earlier today that the game has now sold 1m copies in under a month – a fact Hall described to Polygon as a ‘shots fired’ moment for those in the traditional …

Engine Room Games’s Shaun Hewitt discusses the key skills needed for his role in software engineering