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The headline news from this year’s GfK report is this: There were fewer games sold last year, there were fewer consoles sold last year, but accessory sales continue to rise. Yet there are some significant victories to be found in the data from 2015, and those triumphs are largely centred …
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PS4 and Xbox One shine but physical gaming sales drop to £2.1bn in 2015
PS4 and Xbox One UK game sales shot up by over 50 per cent in 2015. GfK’s latest stats reveal significant growth for the new consoles. However, the overall UK physical games market is down by eight per cent, dropping from 2.294bn in 2014 to 2.1bn last year. That number …
Read More »Find out how the UK games market performed last year in MCV’s first issue of 2016
As we start 2016, MCV looks back at the last twelve months to see just how the UK games market performed. In our first issue of the year, with the help of GfK Entertainment figures, we round up how much money the sector generated across hardware, software and accessories. We …
Read More »US Amazon Prime subscribers receive 20% off new game releases and pre-orders
American Amazon Prime users can now get 20 per cent off the cost of game pre-orders and brand new releases. In an FAQ page,the online retail giant says that the deal is valid only on physical editions of games. Amazon also defines ‘new release’ as a title that has been …
Read More »How much are you worth? Develop Salary Survey ends today
Last chance to have your say about pay, working conditions and more in 2016
Read More »GAME’s share price up 8% as New Year sales improve
GAME’s share price has improved slightly – up 8 per cent – after the retailer said its Christmas and New Year’s sales were not as bad as it feared. Sales trends improved for the three-week period ending January 9th, 2016, with transactions down 0.4 per cent. The retailer now repeats …
Read More »GameStop reports Christmas growth
Global video games retailer GameStop has said that like-for-like store sales for the nine weeks ending January 2nd were up 4.4 per cent. That represents 4.9 per cent growth in the US and 3.9 per cent internationally. Total global sales grew 1.8 per cent to $2.99bn, up from last year’s …
Read More »Release date confirmed for Homefront: The Revolution
Yes, the rumours were correct. Deep Silver has announced that Homefront: The Revolution will be released on PS4, Xbox One and PC in the UK on May 20th. It will arrive in the US on May 17th. A couple of retail ‘leaks’ had already appeared to have pointed to a …
Read More »Develop Salary Survey closes tomorrow
Just over 24 hours left if you want to have your say about the games jobs market in 2016
Read More »Amazon Canada pulls listing for $800 PlayStation VR
Could Sony’s PlayStation VR actually retail for MORE than Oculus Rift? Forbes reports that a now removed listing for the device on Amazon Canada carried a price of $1,125 Canadian dollars – that’s just shy of 550. And with the way exchange rates work, that could in reality translate to …
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