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Company using money to expand into iPhone development

High Street retailer GAME is teaming up with games industry charity SpecialEffect in the UK. GAME announced that its UK stores will be partnering with the organisation following a company-wide survey of its staff to see which charity they wanted to support. As a part of this, GAME will be …

Game makers now need to reveal their drop rates for loot boxes and other chance-based microtransactions

Demand for Nintendo’s Classic Mini: NES was greater than we anticipated,” Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime has admitted. Speaking with CNET, Fils-Aime said that Nintendo was aware of the console shortages and that the company was doing everything it could to help ease consumer demand. "Every day there’s more …

Layoffs occurring early next year, with Obsidian continuing to work on the game, in a smaller capacity

The Last Guardian is both the game everyone’s been waiting for and the game no one ever expected to arrive – much like Half Life 3. The title began its development journey in 2007 and was announced by Sony at E3 2009 as the game which would demonstrate everything the …

Starting May 2017 developers whose games contain random loot box drops will be required to reveal the underlying odds. Games such as Overwatch, Hearthstone and Counter-Strike reward players who both complete in-game tasks and pay cash with digital loot boxes, the contents of which vary. Rare and valuable items can …

AD&D, a new partnership formed by UK agency Attention Seekers and US events giants Done & Dusted, has said it wants to do for competitive gaming what Sky did for football. The firm has said that it wants to revolutionise how eSports is presented and make them more accessible to …

Platform holder Xbox has said that 2016 has been a mixed year for the games market. UK marketing boss Harvey Eagle said that the performance of this year’s releases has varied wildly. A number of titles, including Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Titanfall 2, Watch Dogs 2 and Dishonored 2 …

For the last issue of 2016, MCV delivers its annual retail survey. We talked to over 170 indie and big-chain games retailers about the year’s ups and downs. From the most anticipated game of 2017 to the launch of VR, all the results and analysis are in this week’s issue. …