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Back in February Green Man Gaming was helping independent developers. The online retailer was offering the studios a route to market, uploading their games to its store and promoting them to its PlayFire community. But now Green Man Gaming is fully committing to publishing games, opening a dedicated digital-only arm …
Read More »Game over for the Official Magazine?
The news last week that Future and Nintendo had decided to close Official Nintendo Magazine is a sad sign of the times. UK Nintendo magazines have come and gone over the years. The biggest casualty before now had been in 2012 when Nintendo Gamer – the successor to a long …
Read More »Monster Hunter 4G shifts 1.6m units in first week in Japan; 230k New 3DS consoles sold in its first two days
Nintendo’s New 3DS consoles are off to a strong start in Japan, according to data provided by Famitsu. It launched in October 11th and by October 12th it had shifted a combined total of 230,000 units. Of this figure 172,332 were the larger New 3DS LL, while its smaller sibling …
Read More »Bandai Namco opens office in Malaysia
Publisher Bandai Namco has expanded into Malaysia, opening a new office in Kuala Lumpur. Bandai Namco Malaysia is to be headed up be Nicolas Ng, who will be reporting to the firm’s Singapore office GM of sales and marketingRainel Tan. "Malaysia has always been one of our key markets within …
Read More »The growth of Oculus
The VR company’s VP of product Nate Mitchell discusses the firm’s growth and how Facebook has affected the talent it is attracting and who it is looking to hire
Read More »Hospital Club 100 gaming and tech winners announced
The Hospital Club has revealed who was voted the Top 10 people in the tech and gaming category. Those in this year’s list include MakieLab’s Alice Taylor and indie developer Dan Pearce. These ten were picked from a shortlist of 25 that was unveiled last month. The top nine entries …
Read More »Super Smash Bros spends fourth week at the top of the Japanese charts
Nintendo’s 3DS fighting game Super Smash Bros is on top of the Japanese software charts for the fourth week, according to data provided by Famitsu. Sales of the title continue to fall, declining by 17 per cent week-on-week, but it still sold an impressive 107,259 units. There are also a …
Read More »Bleszinski unchained
Develop speaks to the famous developer on his return, free-to-play and why being transparent about development is key
Read More »Limited edition The Evil Within-themed PS4s launching in Japan
Japanese fans of survival horror master Shinji Mikami’s The Evil Within will be able to buy a limited edition PlayStation 4 featuring art from the game. That’s according to Siliconera, who says that these limited edition consoles are available to pre-order on the Sony Store. These are branded with the …
Read More »FuturLab’s James Marsden on promoting ‘the game of the year’ Velocity 2X
It’s not easy being indie. Many of us in the industry may see the indie development sector as a source of interesting and new games, but according to James Mardsen, director of Brighton-based indie FuturLab, this isn’t true for the wider gaming audience. There’s an indie stigma. Indie games aren’t …
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