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Last night’s London Games Conference was another jam-packed event filled with incredible insight on how to discover, sell and even make games. We had the social giants Twitter, Twitch, Facebook and Google on stage, plus some incredible insight and lessons from the likes of Michael Pachter, CCP’s David Reid and …
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Splinter Cell Blacklist sells 2m copies, Rayman Legends nears 1m
Ubisoft has announced sales numbers for a pair of under-performing titles, revealing Splinter Cell: Blacklist has moved 2m units and Rayman Legends is closing in on 1m copies sold. Games Industry reports the Ubisoft provided the figures following its recent call to investors, where the publisher had warned investors that …
Read More »LGC: GAME recruits 4,500 people for Christmas
GAME boss Martyn Gibbs said the firm has hired 4,500 temporary staff for the peak Christmas period. He revealed the number live on stage at London Games Conference 2013. He said that customer support is one of the most important roles retailers can play in today’s games industry, and it …
Read More »LGC: 2m people buy digital content from GAME
GAME CEO Martyn Gibbs has revealed the role he believes the specialist retailer can have in a digital world. On stage at London Games Conference 2014, the retail veteran said that 2m individual people have bought digital content from the High Street chain. He told attendees that video games is …
Read More »Team17: How digital distribution turned us into a publisher again
Debbie Bestwick looks at the changes digital has brought to the company and the game industry
Read More »Tearaway is a digital-only Vita title in India
Sony will not release Media Molecule’s PS Vita debut Tearaway at retail, it has confirmed. The game was listed at various online stores, and aswe reporteda few days ago, there was quite a disparity between that suggested retail price and the price of the digital version on PSN. Sony’s decision …
Read More »Amazon to begin Sunday deliveries
Online retailer Amazon is to start offering Sunday delivery to its customers. VentureBeat reports that the company has struck a deal with the USPS (United States Postal Service), marking the first time the organisation has agreed to Sunday deliveries. If you’re an Amazon Prime member, you can order a backpack …
Read More »Blockbuster appoints administrator, parties interested in ‘parts’ of the business
Moorfields Corporate Recovery has been officially appointed as the administrator of Blockbuster. The retailer confirmed at the end of last month that it planned to re-enter administration, with owner Gordon Brothers Europe admitting that it could see no recovery from a period of poor trading performance”. Retail Week reports that …
Read More »A third of all console spending to be digital by 2017 – report
IHS head of games Piers Harding-Rolls has predicted a dramatic swing to digital during the imminent console generation. The analyst believes that by 2017 a total of 34 per cent of all games spend on PS4 and Xbox One will be spent on digital games. By comparison, it says that …
Read More »More than 100 games firms attending LGC – are you among them?
The biggest names in the games industry are heading to London this week, and there are only a few seats left
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