Telltale’s hit licensed adventure game The Walking Dead will debut on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One next month. The studio announced the news earlier today on its Twitter account, adding that retail versions of the game’s second season will arrive in October for PS3, PS Vita and Xbox 360. As …
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MARGIN MAKERS: Guide to cases and covers
Gamers on the move can put their valuable consoles and peripherals at risk, but a suitable carry case or cover can avoid the danger. MCV gets carried away Cases are the ideal thing to accompany brand new shiny consoles – nobody wants their expensive new hardware and peripherals to pick …
Read More »GfK Chart-Track says it now covers 95% of the market
GfK Chart-Track is changing how it is calculating the market value in the UK. The firm believes it now covers 95 per cent of the physical games market, having previously estimated it to be 90 per cent. Data from this year will now be only up-weighted by five per cent. …
Read More »Destiny sold ‘$500m’ worth of units into stores on day one, is biggest new IP ever
Activision hasn’t revealed Destiny’s day one sales but has confirmed that the game is a record-breaker. The publisher says its sold $500m worth of stock into retail for day one – meaning that if every copy sells the game will have recouped its famous $500m development budget within 24 hours. …
Read More »Microsoft is replacing noisy Xbox Ones
Customers who believe their Xbox Ones are producing an excessive amount of noise are being offered replacements by Microsoft. Kotaku reports that complaints about noisy consoles seems to have grown more prevalent after the Xbox One launched in a number of new countries” earlier this month. You’d expect complaints regarding …
Read More »Sony: We’re treating Destiny like a first-party game
Destiny may be an Activision title coming out on both PlayStation and Xbox, but Sony says it has given the title the first party treatment. "We’re treating it, for all intents and purposes internally, as if it’s a first-party release," Sony’s UK boss Fergal Gara told Eurogamer. "We’re wrapping our …
Read More »INTERVIEW: Martyn Gibbs on being back in the GAME
GAME, at least the old GAME, used to be notoriously slow at launching things. We recall the days they would speak to us about updating their website or launching a new piece of tech. It would often take a good six months at least before we saw it in the …
Read More »PS4 hits 1m UK sales
PS4 has sold 1m units in the UK, making it the second fastest selling home console of all time. The machine reaches the figure after 42 weeks. Wii managed the same feat in 38 weeks. By comparison, PS2 hit 1m in 50 weeks and Xbox 360 took 60 weeks to …
Read More »Lego Batman 3 PS3 bundle lands in November
A new PlayStation 3 hardware bundle headlined by Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham is heading to retail in North America later this year, Sony has announced. A post on PlayStation.com unveils the new console package – which will include a 500 GB Slim PlayStation 3, along with copies of Lego …
Read More »‘WB Play’ rumoured to be a Steam competitor from Warner Bros
Warner Bros has filed a series of trademarks for what reportedly could be a digital retail and streaming platform. The Escapist reports that the filings for ‘WB Play’ concern a number of activities such as ‘online retail store services’, ‘audio and video broadcasting services’ and ‘downloadable virtual goods’. Of the …
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