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Read More »VIDEO: New Shaq-Fu trailer revealed
Basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal showed up last night’s The Game Awards to show some new footage from his game, Shaq-Fu: A Legend Reborn. The video features around ten seconds of gameplay. Original developer Big Deez Productions is absent from the trailer, with Saber Interactive being listed as the developer. That …
Read More »There’s a Rock Band VR game coming to Oculus Rift
After bringing its Rock Band franchise back this year, Harmonix is now set to launch the IP on Oculus Rift. The firm has announced that Rock Band will be launching on the Oculus Rift headset next year. Harmonix debuted a trailer (below) for the game at last night’s The Game …
Read More »VIDEO: Rocket League officially set for Xbox One
Following rumours and speculation, Psyonix has confirmed that its chaotic car-football title is coming to Xbox One. During last night’s The Game Awards, the developer released a trailer confirming that Rocket League was in fact launching on Xbox One in February 2016. This follows Psyonix’s VP of marketing and communications …
Read More »Sega reduces financial forecast again
Japanese publisher Sega has slashed its fiscal predictions for the year for the second time. The firm’s net sales forecasts have been cut by 65 billion (15 per cent), from 420 billion to 355 billion. In a document on its investor relations page, Sega says that this reduction in predicted …
Read More »Shahid Ahmad’s battle for independents
For the past four years, PlayStation’s Shahid Ahmad has had one of the coolest jobs in the games industry. As head of the firm’s Strategic Content division, it’s been his responsibility to bring the best indie games to the platform. He signed the likes of Mike Bithell’s Thomas Was Alone, …
Read More »Capcom reports high pre-orders for new HD Resident Evil updates
Pre-orders for Capcom’s upcoming Resident Evil Origins Collection are well ahead of the publisher’s predictions. The Xbox One, PS4 and PC compilation brings together the updated edition of Resident Evil HD – which launched digitally in January 2015 – with the upcoming remake of Resident Evil 0. It’s due on …
Read More »Minecraft continues to rule the App Store charts
Minecraft dominates the iPad and iPhone paid charts. The Pocket Edition of Mojang’s hit is No.1 on both platforms, while Telltale’s new episodic Story Mode takes second place in the iPad ranks and No.5 on iPhone. These titles are absent from the Grossing Top Tens which are ruled by mobile …
Read More »Read about the NEW UK charts in this week’s issue of MCV
The charts are making a return in MCV this week thanks to a deal signed by UKIE with SuperData and Reflection. In this week’s issue we include the Chart-Track numbers for November, alongside digital sales information for October courtesy of SuperData. That’s on top of mobile charts from Reflection. We …
Read More »Resident Evil 2 Remake IS going to be built from the ground up
The forthcoming Resident Evil 2 remake is going to be a ‘from the ground up remake’. That’s according to UK senior marketing director Stuart Turner, who took to Twitter to clarify some confusion surrounding the title. This follows the firms latest financial report, which seems to have referred to the …
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