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Swedish publisher and distributor Starbreeze has signed an agreement with Otherside Entertainment to publish System Shock 3 on PC and other platforms. Starbreeze will pour $12m into the title, and it says it will be able to recoup 120 per cent of its full investment including marketing costs. Under the …
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Soedesco announces new action RPG IP AereA to be published this summer
Soedesco has announced that its second new original IP will be published on PS4, Xbox One and PC later this year. Entitled AereA, the music-themed action RPG is being developed by the Netherlands-based Triangle Studios and it’s also the first game in the planned AereA series. The title will be …
Read More »Nintendo Switch sells 1.5m units in first week, according to Superdata
9 out of 10 bought a copy of Zelda, too
Read More »Bethesda testing Quake Champions with eSports pros
Bethesda has revealed that they are testing out Quake Champions with top eSports players to try and gauge the game’s chance of succeeding as an eSport. id software studio director Tim Willits said at PAX this weekend that the studio is currently focusing on the 1 vs 1 duel mode …
Read More »MCV Awards 2017: In pictures
Pictures from last night’s 2017 MCV Awards arenow available to view online. Whether you were unable to attend or simply want a reminder of how last night went, a full album of images are now online. We’ve included a few pictures below, and there is a full album onFacebook which …
Read More »Improbable, BAME in Games and Bandai Namco headline this week’s MCV
Improbable may well be the most exciting company working in games at the moment, and MCV can exclusively announcethis weekthat it’s looking for 100 games to take part in its Games Innovation Program. We talked to CEO Herman Narula about what lies ahead for the firm and its SpatialOS platform. …
Read More »MCV Awards 2017: All the winners
PlayStation UK, GAME, Bethesda and PR firm Indigo Pearl were the big winners of this year’s MCV Awards, with PlayStation UK taking the highest number of prizes. Not only did the platform holder win best Digital Marketing Team, Game Campaign for Uncharted 4 and Trade and Marketing Team, but PlayStation …
Read More »Games London announced as Red Carpet sponsor for the MCV Awards 2017
The MCV Awards is taking place tonight at The Brewery in London to celebrate the best in the UK games industry, and we’re happy to announce that Games London will be sponsoring the event as the exclusive Red Carpet partner. Games London’s head of games Michael French commented: "We’re proud …
Read More »Nier: Automata is ‘an incredible marriage between PlatinumGames action and Square Enix RPG’
When Square Enix published the original Nier back in 2010 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, both its reviews and sales figures made for pretty grim reading. Instead of becoming a new, best-selling franchise – based off developer Cavia’s popular Drakengard RPG series – it ended up being the last …
Read More »Nintendo Switch biggest console launch in Europe, Zelda: Breath of the Wild biggest-selling launch title
Nintendo UK has confirmed that the Switch has sold more units in its launch weekend than any other piece of Nintendo hardware in the company’s history, and that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is now the biggest-selling Nintendo launch title in Europe, even out-selling Wii Sports in …
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