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GAME will be holding a number of midnight launches to celebrate the release of Titanfall. 216 shops are to hold launch events tonight for EA’s blockbuster shooter. We’re really excited for the debut of Titanfall – last year’s demo at E3 made a huge impact and gamers have been waiting …
Read More »Chips is back on the rise
The story of Chips summarises the pressures that has faced games retailers over the last three years. Price competition from supermarkets and online retailers, coupled with a shrinking release schedule and a rising digital market place, has made selling games in the UK an incredibly challenging job. We’ve seen mass …
Read More »PS4 passes 400k sales in Japan, pips Vita in charts
PlayStation 4 is still the best-selling games console in Japan. Information supplied to MCV from Famitsu shows that the hardware’s install base now stands at 405,546 units strong three weeks since it launched. The hardware is so popular that most stores are now starting to run out of stock and …
Read More »The Witcher 3 delayed until 2015
RPG fans are going to have to wait until next February to get their hands on the latest The Witcher game. Developer CD Projekt RED announced that the title will be delayed in an open letter on their website. In this, it said that the game could have been released …
Read More »Lollipop Chainsaw reaches one million sales
Suda 51’s zombie cheerleader title has globally sold 1m units. This figure was announced by developer Grasshopper Manufacture via Twitter on Friday: Lollipop Chainsaw came out in June 2012, meaning it has taken it nearly a year and a half to reach this level of sales. In Japan, Grasshopper is …
Read More »Infamous: Second Son pre-orders higher than Last of Us
Sony has revealed that Infamous: Second Son has more pre-orders than last year’s blockbuster The Last of Us had at the same point prior to launch. The upcoming super hero title is Sony’s first big PlayStation 4 game of 2014, and the publisher is putting a lot of money behind …
Read More »Twitch official E3 streaming partner
Twitch has been named the official live streaming partner of E3. The deal between the streaming platform and the event’s owners, Entertainment Software Association, extends for three years, starting with the upcoming E3 2014. This is not the first such deal Twitch has signed – the platform is the official …
Read More »Happy New Year: January in numbers
January is always a quiet time of the year – this year more so than normal with only a handful of new releases. That didn’t stop a reasonable sum of money being generated by software. 58.5m was made through game sales, which is an impressive 24 per cent rise over …
Read More »Ubisoft plans Watch Dogs licensing assault
Licensing firms have already rushed to back Watch Dogs – even before the game has launched. Gamers can already order Watch Dogs books, t-shirts, scarves, caps and hoodies. It’s great to have a game as highly anticipated as Watch Dogs out this year and observe the number of licensed deals …
Read More »Twitch announces mobile game broadcasting
Twitch has revealed its software development kit for mobile game broadcasting. The SDK allows the capture of footage and audio from both the game and the devices camera and microphone. Furthermore, videos can be uploaded straight away at a variety of qualities. It seems that this kit is more for …
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