There’s nothing quite like Rocket League in competitive gaming today. Sure, FIFA has its pro players, but that’s a serious, by-the-numbers simulation. Competitive Rocket League, on the other hand, challenges coordinated teams of three to blisteringly fast, acrobatic, aerial football battles in series of swift five-minute games. And they’re driving …

Pokemon reigned supreme at the top of the Japanese charts last week, with the download card version of Pokemon Gold and Silver taking the top spot and Pokken Tournament DX taking No.2, giving Nintendo titles four spots in the Top Ten for the week ending September 24th. The download card …

Speaking to the news website, Vivendi COO Stephane Roussel said the company may sell its stock following the Ubisoft AGM

Konami’s PES 2018 beat a number of new releases to the top of the Japanese charts last week, including Nintendo’s Metroid: Samus Returns and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, according to the latest figures from Famitsu. The PS4 version of the game shifted over 69,000 units in its first week on …

Destiny 2 has gone straight in at No.1 in the Japanese weekly chart, according to the latest data from Famitsu. The week ending September 10th was light on new releases, Famitsu notes, but Activision’s shooter (published by Sony in Japan) managed to shift 51,629 units in its first five days …

The Japanese physical video game market was valued at 29.8bn in August, up 82.5 per cent year-on-year, according to the latest figures from Famitsu. This is down to a huge 206.8 per cent spike in hardware sales, prompted mainly by the Nintendo Switch, as well as a 21.3 per cent …

Sony’s PS4 exclusive Everybody’s Golf has shot straight to the top of the Japanese weekly charts, according to the latest data from Famitsu. It’s the first mainline entry in franchise in nearly five years, and its Week One sales of almost 101,000 soared straight past its PS3 predecessor, Hot Shots …

Destiny 2 has gone straight in at No.1 in the UK weekly charts, making it the biggest launch of the year so far. However, sales were 58 per cent down on the original title from 2014, suggesting that more consumers may have shifted to digital purchases – especially considering that …

Nintendo is closing down another of its social experiments, Miiverse. It’s the latest in a long history of abandoned social functions in both home console and handhelds. Jem Alexander ponders whether any social gimmicks can cross console generations and, if so, which

Publisher Soedesco has just announced that its new IP Real Farm will be released on the 20th of October. That date is for both digital and physical releases across PS4, Xbox One and PC. The farm simulation title is developed by Triangle Studios. It’s the publisher’s third ‘home-grown’ IP and …