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The PlayStation Plus Edition of Evolution’s racer DriveClub has not been cancelled, Sony has said. We understand many of you are waiting for Driveclub PS Plus Edition to be added to the Instant Game Collection, and we apologise that the game is not yet ready to launch,” PSN content manager …
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GAME hands out £1.08m in Reward Points via Virtual Loyalty Shares
Retailer GAME has over the weekend rewarded 8,000 customers with a big slice of free store credit. When GAME floated in the summer it also handed out what it calls Virtual loyalty Shares to 20,000 customers. Most received 100 worth, although 10 were given 1,000 of the virtual shares. 8,000 …
Read More »Feeling festive? Prove it at the games industry Christmas quiz
Win big prizes with xmas jumper competition at December 2nd event
Read More »Feeling festive? Prove it at next month’s games industry Christmas quiz
November has started, the Christmas toys are on shelves, and so now is the time to get excited for the MCV and Develop Games Industry Christmas Quiz 2014. The whole UK games industry is invited to come, of course, to the December 2nd event. This is our biggest quiz event …
Read More »UK games market slumps again
PS4 and Xbox One consoles are flying off shelves, but the games are not following them. UK boxed games sales this week reached just 13.6m, a figure more suited to July, not the middle of October (GfK Chart-Track figures). For the month of October, UK boxed game sales hit 78m, …
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Read More »PS4 sales reach 13.5 million
Sony's console enjoys best quarter since launch
Read More »Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare – where’s cheapest?
Gamers worldwide are as of today able to head out and buy Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. That might confuse you a little as the game doesn’t officially release until tomorrow (Tuesday November 4th), but Activision this year has chosen to release the Day Zero Edition a day earlier than …
Read More »Amazon admits that it got the Fire Phone price wrong
There are $83m worth of unsold Fire Phones sitting in Amazon’s warehouses, with the retailer admitting that it miscalculated its first smartphone launch. We didn’t get the price right,” Amazon’s senior VP of devices David Limp told Fortune. I think people come to expect a great value, and we sort …
Read More »PS4 unit sales reach 13.5m worldwide as console enjoys its best quarter since launch
Sales of the PS4 have now hit 13.5m units after the console shifted 3.3m worldwide in the quarter ending September 30th, Sony has revealed. That’s up from the 2.7m shipped in the quarter before and the 3m shipped in Q4 2013, Sony’s sales datashows. In fact, it is the second …
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