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Nintendo has revealed its plan to make 3DS this year’s biggest games console. As disclosed by MCV last week, 3DS sales for the year are closing in on PS3 and 360. It has been the best-selling UK console for almost six weeks, and more 3DS titles have been sold for …

One of the most successful and creative games of recent times has become the bizarre target of the US media. As expertly rounded up by Kotaku, this video shows the efforts gone to by the US media to identify Minecraft as the current evil polluting the minds of poor, innocent, …

Players of Battlefield 4 may be offered the chance to carry over their stats and progress from the current-gen to the next. EA announced last week that those who buy FIFA 14 on PS3 or Xbox 360 – which is released in September – will be able to transfer much …

I’m not a fan of open-world games. In the present scenario, where customers are so vocal about console restrictions and where pay-what-you-like indie bundles and free-to-play are all about giving gamers more choice, it sounds strange for me to say this, but I don’t enjoy the amount of freedom most …

505 Games and developer Trickstar Games have delayed Ashes Cricket 2013 once again, this time to November. That means that the game will not launch during the on-going Ashes series, something 505 Games had been gunning for after pushing back its initial 21st June release date. Put simply, the game …

Ashes Cricket 2013 has been delayed for a second time by its publisher 505 Games. The reason? In blunt terms the publisher admitted that the game simply wasn’t good enough in its current state”. The game has already missed its previously scheduled for release of June 21st. It will now …

Climax's Sam Barlow on how a strong narrative can drive user retention and monetisation

A 74 per cent week-on-week jump in sales has seen Microsoft’s Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition claim its first No.1 in the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. In doing so it forces Nintendo’s latest Wii U release Pikmin 3 to settle for second place in its debut week. The …

Valve is being urged to state whether subtitles are included in any given title on its listings page. The issue is being pressed by Manchester’s Kristina Barber, who herself has suffered from severe hearing loss for the past seven years. Krissy, whose Steam collection numbers over 700 games, told MCV …

Meteor Entertainment argues word-of-mouth is the best way to sell a game as a service