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Warner Bros and Techland’s open world zombie title Dying Light once again takes pole position in the GfK Chart-Track Top 40. It keeps the top spot in spite of a 48 per cent decline in sales this week. The game has so far managed to outpace the other new IPs …
Read More »New recruits at GamesRadar+
Future has bolstered the GamesRadar+ editorial team. The publisher has made five new additions to the UK team. Kotaku UK news editor Leon Hurley joins as executive news editor and former Official PlayStation Magazine writer Louise Blain is coming on board as news lead. Meanwhile GamesRadar+ associate editors David Houghton …
Read More »Koei Tecmo’s gaming dynasty
Koei Tecmo’s Dynasty Warriors has been going for over 18 years now, with eight numbered releases and countless expansions and special editions. And in spite of being – for lack of a better term – very Japanese, the series has been a moderate success in the West. Since the start …
Read More »Kiss and tell – indie label Kiss on streamlining the publishing process
Kiss is a company built on the principle of making the process of getting games to market as painless as possible. The firm was founded in 2012 by industry veterans Darryl Still and Peter King. In the past Still had worked at Atari and launched the publisher’s ST, Jaguar and …
Read More »Nintendo and Take-Two shine in a quiet February
In spite of a few big releases this February, the games market is tracking behind last year. 1.4m games were sold last month, representing a seven per cent decline year-on-year. Meanwhile software revenue slipped 1.8 per cent to 39.1m. Game sales have generally been slow this year, with Evolve and …
Read More »Wasteland 2 also coming to PS4
Apocalyptic crowdfunded RPG Wasteland 2 is headed to PlayStation 4. The version hitting Sony’s hardware is a Game of the Year Edition. Developer InXile Entertainment took to the PlayStation Blog yesterday to break the news. The game is coming to PlayStation 4 thanks to Unity 5, which was released earlier …
Read More »AMD reveals new virtual reality tech LiquidVR
Graphics card manufacturer AMD has revealed its VR software development kit. The SDK is called LiquidVR and is designed to deal with some issues virtual reality has had thus far, including motion sickness. The way AMD is doing this is low-latency head tracking – in short ensuring that a player’s …
Read More »Wireless Xbox One controller support for PC coming ‘later this year’
Gamers will be able to use their wireless Xbox One controllers with their PCs later this year. Microsoft has revealed that it will be releasing an adaptor for the Xbox One gamepad so that it can be used wirelessly with PCs later this year. Taking to Xbox Wire, the firm …
Read More »81% of Total War: Attila sales were digital
Sega’s strategy title Total War: Attila would have charted at No.3 in the GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 if the rankings took into consideration digital sales, MCV can reveal. The title sold 21,680 copies in the UK in its first week on sale. 81 per cent of those sales …
Read More »Was GAME’s purchase of Multiplay a smart move? Find out in this week’s MCV
This week MCV speaks to GAME and Multiplay bosses Martyn Gibbs and Craig Fletcher about the retailer’s acquisition of the eSports firm. In addition, UK publishers and analysts share their thoughts about the retailer’s move into pro-gaming. This issue also features interviews with Slightly Mad Studios and Digital Foundry about …
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