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The likes of GTA, CS:GO, Rocket League, Dota 2 and PUBG once again made it to the top of the Steam charts for 2018
Read More »Games-as-a-service and free-to-play top Steam 2018 charts
Meditations is a new free game-a-day collection curated by Rami Ismail
"The idea was to create a meditation of sorts, a reflection, or to capture a particular moment"
Read More »China resumes video game approvals after a nine-month regulatory freeze
"[We] hope everyone can be patient"
Read More »Activision Blizzard terminates CFO Spencer Neumann and reappoints previous postholder
The termination is "for cause unrelated to the company's financial reporting or disclosure controls and procedures"
Read More »Rebellion acquires TickTock Games to expand to four UK studios
"Bringing more great people to the company is a great way to start 2019"
Read More »Games bigger than music and video, represented over 50% of UK entertainment market in 2018
FIFA 19 was the best-selling game of 2018 in the UK, with ERA saying that the games market is the “biggest winner in entertainment’s digital transformation”
Read More »HMV faces closure due to ‘dramatic change in consumer behaviour’
"HMV cannot withstand the tsunami of challenges"
Read More »UK physical market down in 2018, Switch sales surge
Sales of boxed games were down 7.1 per cent year-on-year, despite a boom in Switch sales
Read More »Slightly Mad Studios announces plans to release ‘the most powerful console ever built’ by 2022
"We're not playing around here. This is beyond next gen"
Read More »Rebellion CTO Chris Kingsley receives OBE
"I am greatly honoured and very grateful"
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