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Facebook and Bossa complete LGC schedule
Experts from Bossa and Facebook have joined the final schedule for next month’s London Games Conference. Roberta Lucca, CMO and co-founder at Bossa Studios, will speak on creating hit game Surgeon Simulator by doing things differently – and the results have been over a million YouTube uploads, a hundred million …
Read More »Next Develop 100 to chart Europe’s most promising game start-ups
Submit your details now to ensure you're included - Book will be published digitally in November
Read More »ShopTo resolves Call of Duty: Ghosts dispute, but will Royal Mail strike scupper plans?
Call of Duty: Ghosts is now available from ShopTo.net after the retailer and Activision settled their differences regarding the title. It was revealed in May that ShopTo would not be stocking the game after a disagreement with the publisher regarding the day on which it was able to post orders …
Read More »Monster Hunter 4 ships 3m in first month
Monster Hunter 4 has surpassed 3m copies shipped in its first month. Capcomannounces the figure was reached across both retail and digital versions of the game. The milestone brings the lifetime sales total for the Monster Hunter series to 26m units sold. Monster Hunter 4 launched on September 14th in …
Read More »Warner Bros spends big on Batman: Arkham Origins
Forget PS4 and Xbox One, one of the biggest marketing campaigns of Christmas will be for a current-gen game. Warner Bros has revealed a huge advertising push behind its new Batman title – Arkham Origins. It includes a blockbuster TV campaign, events, drinks promotions with Kick, plus heavyweight online, digital …
Read More »Pokemon X & Y sell 4m in opening weekend
Nintendo has revealed some impressive sales numbers for Pokemon X & Y’s opening weekend. The games – the first entries in the Pokemon series on 3DS – sold 4m units between them on Saturday October 12th and Sunday October 13th. And Friday October 11th in the UK. The impressive number …
Read More »INTERVIEW: Anshu Mor, Microsoft India
The Xbox One may still be a year away from finding its way to Indian store shelves, but Microsoft India has plenty in the works for the Xbox 360. We speak with Anshu Mor, group head of the company’s interactive entertainment business, about entertainment content on Xbox Live, the Xbox …
Read More »Schappert: Free-to-play the future of the game industry
'The shift to free-to-play is real and happening'
Read More »GAME exclusive Zelda: Link Between Words bonus revealed
GAME has an exclusive pre-order bonus for Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds – a tiny musical treasure chest. The chest plays the series’ famous chest-opening jingle when opened. The pre-order bonus was revealed in a Vine featuring Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata and Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma: This …
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