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Consumers who pre-order spend twice as much on games as the average player. Research firm Kantar Worldpanel says that consumers who pre-order spend – on average – 235 on games a year. The statistic acts as a warning to publishers following recent consumer dissatisfaction over pre-order issues. These have included …

The first publishers have added their support to MCV’s call for more digital download data. The Digital Counts campaign launched three weeks ago, calling on publishers and digital retailers to share their figures in-order to create an accurate games chart. Currently, only games sold in boxes are included in the …

After a quiet 2014, Capcom has come out swinging this year with a busy slate of releases. MCV catches up with its new European bossKatsuhiko Ichii and marketing director Antoine Molant to see how Capcom’s year has been so far, and finds out about its big plans for Street Fighter …

The largest American High Street games retailer will now only sell console bundles that include physical copies of games. It is common nowadays for hardware bundles to include download codes instead of physical games. However, Giant Bomb reports that the retailer in a recent conference call outlined its new physical …

A port of Activision’s Deadpool game is heading to PS4 and Xbox One, GameStop has revealed. In a post onTwitter, the US retailer announced pre-orders are now open for a current-gen console release of the 2013 licensed action title. Activision gave Prototype 2the same treatmentearlier this year, bringing the multi-platform …

Telltale has dated both the physical and retail releases of Minecraft: Story Mode. MCV had been told that the game would be released both digitally and on disc at the same time. This doesn’t appear to be the case, however. The first episode of the episodic series will arrive on …

Sony has cut 5,000 (30) off the price of the PS4 in Japan. The console currently retails for just shy of 40,000 (217) in the region. As of October 1st, however, this will be cut to 35,000 (190). It’s the first official price cut for the machine in the region. …

CodesWholesale.com’s CMO Fatih Parlayan tells us why retailers should be using digital distribution Eliminating the need for storing products and time-consuming transportation of boxes are only a few of the advantages of digital distribution of video games. Additionally, the whole process is completely automatic – which makes it possible to …

Microsoft is taking steps to gradually pull support of Xbox 360’s Xbox Live Indie Games service, the firm has told registered developers. Gamasutrareports XBLIG devs will no longer be able to purchase a subscription service, effective immediately – though those interested can directly contact Microsoft to maintain access for the …