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After seven years of bogies, Rory McIlroy has helped 2015’s instalment in the PGA Tour series straight to the UK retail chart top spot. Rory McIlroy PGA Tour is a big shake-up for the golfing franchise – it’s both the first PGA Tour to drop a year from its title …
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Accessories Update: AMD R9 Fury X GPU and Xbox One Elite Wireless Controller
MCV takes a look at the best accessories heading to UK retail. This week, AMD shows off its latest fast and furious graphics card and Microsoft up its performance with the Xbox One Elite controller AMD R9 Fury X As PC players prepare to enter virtual reality with the upcoming …
Read More »Last year’s big hits top the digital console chart for June in the UK
The boxed charts might all be about Batman and Elder Scrolls, but 2014’s success stories continue to reign in the UK digital rankings. SuperData Research has published its latest Top Ten for digital sales on console in June, finding that retail chart-toppers Batman Arkham Knight and The Elder Scrolls Online’s …
Read More »Amazon’s Prime Day sale a success, outsells biggest-ever Black Friday
Despite accusations of poor deals, Amazon’s Prime Day promotion proved the haters wrong and out-sold the retailer’s best Black Friday event. The sale, which was only available to subscribers of Amazon’s eponymous 79/year service (which provides free next-day delivery and instant video streaming among other benefits), ran for just one …
Read More »Physical release of Shenmue 3 is not guaranteed
Shenmue 3 may not be released at retail, Ys Net has said. Paying $60 for a physical copy of Shenmue 3 on Kickstarter seems to still guarantee a physical copy of the game, but whether it will be available upon actual release remains uncertain. That’s according to VG247, which has …
Read More »PlayStation Morpheus VR will be at September’s GameStop Expo
Sony’s virtual reality tech is going to be at this year’s GameStop Expo. On Wednesday September 2nd, fans will be able to get hands on with the PlayStation VR kit at the retail giant’s event. The GameStop Expo takes place at Sans Expo and Convention Centre in Las Vegas. Sony’s …
Read More »GAME to grow PC offer with new Razer partnership
PC peripherals specialist Razer has teamed up with GAME to offer a number of additional products the retailer. The deal will see items currently not widely available in the UK” available both online an in-store. Products will include Razer’s Chroma range. The new partnership with GAME represents a continued focus …
Read More »Yo-Kai Watch dominates Japanese charts again as Busters sells almost 700,000
The latest video game craze in Japan is yet to run out of steam. The Yo-Kai Watch franchise has already shifted more than seven million copies, propelled by the success of the first two entries in the series. Last week, the latest title from developer Level 5, Yo-Kai Watch Busters, …
Read More »Hololens will not be games-centric at launch
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has said that the early days of Hololens will not be focused on the handset’s gaming credentials. For sure in the first version, it’s going to be more about developers and enterprise scenarios,” he told ZDnet. Gaming will always be a scenario and there will be …
Read More »International Insight: America
It might be the land of the free, but is it the land of free-to-play? As the industry recovers from another huge E3 showing, SuperData CEO Joost van Dreunen examines the state of games in the US of A In America everything is bigger – and its games market is …
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