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Persona 5 has sold 437,929 copies in Japan, making it Atlus’ best selling game in the country. Having launched on September 15th Persona 5 has already sold more than 400,000 units across both PS4 and PS3 according to the Media Create sales numbers, which were helpfully translated by Persona Central.Earlier …
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Meet MCV’s 30 Under 30 2016
MCV reveals the most talented young minds working in the UK games industry in 2016 This year’s 30 Under 30 is sponsored by OPM Recruitment. Adam MasonVideo Producer, GameSpot UK Age: 28 Adam Mason has worked as a video producer in games for over five years. Starting out as the …
Read More »Read about 2016’s 30 Under 30 in this week’s issue of MCV
30 Under 30 is back, as MCV reveals the most talented young minds working in the UK games industry in 2016. This week, we also talk to Amazon UK’s games boss Russell Jones to take the pulse of the current games retail scene. Elswehere, Respawn COO Dusty Welch and art …
Read More »PS4 sales up 380% on back of £149 bundles
Sony’s PlayStation 4 has returned to the top of the weekly UK hardware race following a number of cut-price bundles. Sales of the console climbed 380 per cent week-on-week, thanks to a 359 per cent boost to original PS4 sales, according to GfK hardware figures for the week ending October …
Read More »GAME apologises to customers following unfulfilled PS4 orders
High Street retailer GAME has issued an apology after it was unable to execute some orders for a cheap PS4 bundle. As reported by Eurogamer, the deal in question – an original PlayStation 4, FIFA 17 and a three-month Now TV pass – set consumers back 150 on its website. …
Read More »Updated: FIFA 17 shoots to No.1 in the UK
Update:GfK has been in touch to set the record straight about FIFA 17’s sales performance. Due to the fact the research firm increased its market coverage in 2014,from 90 per cent to 95 per cent,in terms of extrapolated sales FIFA 13 still has the best-selling Week One for the series. …
Read More »Battleborn may (or may not) be going free-to-play
Gearbox’s multiplayer shooter seems to be about to launch some sort of free-to-play or free-to-try offer. Kotaku originally reported that a source close to the game had informed it that Battleborn was going to make the switch to free-to-play within a couple of months. This source added that the studio …
Read More ȣ149 PS4s are everywhere
A number of UK retailers are today offering the launch version of the PS4 for just 149. Tesco, Smyths, Argos, Game, John Lewis and ShopTo have all gone live with 149 offers for the pre-slim 500GB version of he PS4 bundled with a game. In most instances it’s new release …
Read More »International Factfile 2016: Isle of Man
Right now, the Isle of Man doesn’t boast a thriving games sector, but its government is working hard to rectify this. The region has already attracted a number of medium-sized companies, including developer Derivco and publisher PlayFusion, but its Department of Economic Development has a number of incentives to make …
Read More »GAME sells head office and distribution centre
Retailer GAME digital and entered into a sale and leaseback agreement for its Basingstoke head office and distribution centre. The company’s freehold interest in both locations has been sold to Portsmouth Estates Developments Limited, a local property investment firm owned by Lord Oliver Henry Rufus Lymington, who is the 35-year-old …
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