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New data from Ipsos Media CT and ISFE suggests that free-to-play games accounted for half of the European games market in the last 12 months. By half of the market, that means that F2P accounted for around 50 per cent of titles acquired in the period. It also claims that …

Trade tickets for this year’s Games Media Awards are selling out fast, so act now if you want to make sure you’re at the big night of the year for the UK’s games press. The Games Media Awards take place on Thursday October 18th and return to the super chic …

Developer hires ex-Somethin' Else exec Mark Sorrell as development director

GAME’s 341 UK stores will offer free Wi-Fi access for their customers in time for Christmas. Telcoms company BT has today been named as the official provider for the service. Customers will be encouraged to access digital information via the free GAME app and in-store QR codes. The introduction of …

We took the short trip to Pune on Friday for the first ever Ubiday Pune, where the Ubisoft welcomed journalists and other game developers from around India to get a glimpse of what goes on at its Pune studio. Syed Abbas spoke about the challenges of brining the older Splinter …

Popular free-to-play shooter safeguarding long-term survival of the US studio, says Robin Walker

Titles that support two Wii U GamePads simultaneously are expected to arrive in 2013. Twin GamePad functionality was missing from Nintendo’s early Wii U previews but was added in after repeated requests from press and early users. However, Nintendo’s 100+ price for individual GamePads in Japan – and the omission …

Worlds Inc. claims MMO infringes patent regarding virtual world interactions

The UK games retail market suffered its worst week on record last week. Again. Software sales plunged 30 per cent in the week ending September 8th to just 370,443 games sold. All together this generated an all-time low revenue figure of just 7.76m. The sudden drop comes after weeks of …

Square Enix’s Sleeping Dogs has claimed its fourth UK number one. The open-world action title has surpassed all expectations, having held the top spot for four of the last five weeks, with NCsoft’s Guild Wars 2 briefly interrupting in its week of release. To win this week it had to …