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16 titles derived from Nickelodeon IPs will be returning to shelves in the coming months, courtesy of THQ Nordic
Read More »THQ Nordic working with Nickelodeon to resurrect old game licenses
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Ukie: UK games market was worth £5.11bn in 2017
12.4 per cent up on 2016 with gains for physical, digital and hardware
Read More »Breath of the Wild wins Game of the Year at DICE Awards
Nintendo’s hit also won Outstanding Achievements in Game Direction and Game Design, as well as Adventure Game of the Year
Read More »US monthly report: best January since 2011 as Monster Hunter leads the charts
Hardware sales increased an impressive 119 per cent year-on-year this January in the US
Read More »Miyamoto on Mario movie: ‘if we can’t make something interesting we’ll just call it quits’
Gaming license deal of the century isn't a dead cert to happen
Read More »US games market booms 11% in 2017 to $14.6bn
The US games market has had a stellar year, bouncing back from 2016 on a combination of stronger software and a new hardware platform. The NPD combines physical sales with many of the largest digital platforms, giving a far more representative idea of the health of the industry, and based …
Read More »Xbox outsells PS4 in December – Is PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds to thank?
A tweet from Aaron Greenberg, head of xbox marketing at Microsoft, has revealed an unexpected ordering of console hardware sales in the US in December. According to data that he had seen from NPD – but which is yet to be released. December is a big month for console sales …
Read More »Pokémon, Splatoon 2 and Dragon Quest dominate 2017 charts in Japan
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 …
Read More »FIFA 18 tops the 100 best-selling physical games – we dissect the list
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 …
Read More »Mario Kart 8 Deluxe topped last Japanese charts of 2017
Nintendo unsurprisingly won Christmas in Japan. What’s more surprising is that it topped the last weekly charts of the year with a title that released back in April, with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe charting at No.1 (according to sales data collected by Famitsu from December 25th to 31st 2017). With …
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