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Future says its Official Xbox Magazine website has increased its traffic by 220 per cent year-on-year. According to ComScore data, the site scored 504,068 global visitors last month, making it ‘the biggest dedicated Xbox content site in the UK.’ It follows a refresh of the website last year. OXM’s editor …

Developer-publisher's Uplay brand expands to offer PC game sales

The struggle faced by UK retail has reached its lowest point to-date when just 8.18m was generated by software sales last week. However, despite the drop, it isn’t the lowest week in terms of the number of games sold. Not that it is a particularly high figure, with just 396,526 …

Key titles from Ubisoft’s back catalogue are on sale for 1 to promote its new digital distribution hub. At Gamescom yesterday the firm officially launched Uplay PC, a Steam- and Origin-a-like app that sells games and connects to the Uplay community and in-game achievements service. The Uplay service now has …

Gamestop has reported its Q2 sales figures for the period ending July 28th, showing strong growth in the retailer’s digital sector. The company posted a 27 per cent increase in the digital department, reaching $134m in revenue. Gamestop’s ‘other’ category includes its digital business, and that particular area saw over …

Ubisoft has announced the launch of Uplay PC, a digital distribution branch of the company’s already established network. Uplay was established back in 2009, with its launch coinciding with the release of Assassin’s Creed 2. The network allows gamers to log-in with an account to unlock in-game extras from various …

Core gamers largely don’t care about platforms when it comes to seeking out the best titles out there, according to XSEED. In fact, The Last Story publisher is banking on it; hoping their RPG’s US release on the long past its prime Wii console will hold true with the notion. …

Heavy Rain developer calls for more maturity, fewer shooters

Publisher EA has begun the process of putting itself up for sale, according to reports from the US. The New York Post believes that discussions with private equity firms KKR and Bethesda owner Providence Equity Partners are at an early stage”. EA’s market cap has fallen by around 37 per …

Gamescom 2012 may well be winding down for the year, but there’s no let up in the frantic rollercoaster that is the global video games industry. Free-to-play seems to be flavour of the day, what with Ubisoft adopting some of its biggest IP to the model and existing F2P titles …