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Famitsu released its yearly report on the Japanese games market, which saw growth in both software and hardware sales in 2017 for the first time since 2006. Hardware sales reached ¥202bn (£1.33bn) in 2017, a 72.9 per cent increase compared to 2016’s ¥117bn (£0.77bn). 7.6m consoles were shifted in 2017 …

Heavy Rain and Beyond Two Souls developer Quantic Dream has been under fire since multiple allegations of inappropriate behaviour have been reported by three different French publications yesterday (January 14th). Le Monde, Mediapart and Canard PC reported that over a dozen of current and former employees (interviewed by Le Monde) …

The biggest selling games of last year have been revealed by GfK – and unsurprising it’s FIFA 18 that comes out on top once again. We did our own pre-emptive tally back in mid-December, which came to the same conclusion, though there has been some movement further down the Top …

Ceremony takes place in Las Vegas on February 22

Major updates and changes coming to systems and mechanics across the game.

Focus on funding small developers in an aim to prevent development studio extinction event in the region.

Developer Rockstar Games has announced that Grand Theft Auto Online, the multiplayer component of Grand Theft Auto, has had its "biggest year" ever in 2017. They don’t quantify exactly what metric has declared 2017 as GTA Online’s biggest ever year in this blog post, but have said that in December 2017 …

Microsoft announced yesterday that PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has now hit another milestone on Xbox One. General manager of Xbox games marketing Aaron Greenberg said on Xbox Wire: “Today, PUBG Corp. and Xbox are excited to share that through the end of 2017 the PUBG community on Xbox One has already grown to over …

Nintendo today held a Direct Mini that everyone had been expecting since EA internal documents leaked mid-December. The Worlds Ends With You: Final Remix, due on Switch later this year, and Dark Souls Remastered releasing on Switch, PS4, Xbox One and PC this May led the announcements. But Nintendo also …

Today’s Nintendo Direct Mini ended with confirmation of recent rumours that Dark Souls would be making a series debut on the Switch this year. Dark Souls Remastered will be out for the platform on 25th May, according to the very brief announcement teaser (see below). The official Dark Souls Twitter …