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Naughty Dog co-founder and former boss of now defunct publisher THQ has written off Nintendo’s position in the hardware business. "Nintendo is irrelevant as a hardware manufacturer in the console business," Jason Rubin told GameTrailers, as reported by GameRevolution. He added, however, that the platform holder is a "worldwide treasure" …

Over 250k PS4 consoles were sold in the UK in the machine’s first 48 hours on sale. Retail sources have confirmed the extent of PS4’s tremendous performance to MCV following Chart-Track’s confirmation this morning that PS4 is the UK’s fastest selling console ever. MCV estimates that UK PS4 sales reached …

Sony’s PS4 is officially the fastest selling console in UK history. Gfk Chart-Track has confirmed that the machine has beaten PSP’s eight year-old sales record of 180k units sold in its first week. Xbox One sold 150k units in its first week. (Note that in both instances ‘week’ refers to …

Production cancelled on Ashes 2013 after game was pulled from Steam

Galaxy on Fire developer to be terminated and all employees transferred

20 year old Japanese studio blames changing business environment for bankruptcy

Xbox One and Xbox 360 were reportedly the top selling consoles at Target and Walmart during Black Friday, accounting for 61 per cent of hardware sales between the two retailers. The figure comes from an InfoScout report spotted by Polygon, which notes that hard sales figures weren’t provided by the …

Steam saw record numbers for concurrent users this past weekend, at one point boasting more than 7m accounts online simultaneously. VG247 reports that Valve’s digital platform surpassed the milestone yesterday morning, peaking at 7,190,578 concurrent users. Valve’s Dota 2 drew a peak of 542,906 concurrent users, making it far and …

Skyrim leads a pack of past top sellers on this week’s Steam sales chart, with the majority carrying significant discounts thanks to Valve’s Autumn Sale. Skyrim’s Legendary Edition took first, while the standard version grabbed the fourth spot. Bioshock Infinite finished in the runner-up spot ahead of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive …

In this week’s issue of MCV, we talk to Microsoft’s corporate VP Phil Harrison about the launch of the Xbox One and what lies ahead in the next-gen. We also bid farewell to the now previous generation of consoles and take a look at some of the biggest event, scandals …