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Sports Interactive head Miles Jacobson was named Person of the Year at last night’s MCV Awards. And to herald his appearance on stage, a special video was created featuring industry legends such as Andy Payne, Paul Collyer and Ian Livingstone, as well as charity War Child. The video charts the …
Read More »PlayStation boosts UK team as PS4 sales soar past 3m
PlayStation 4 has cemented its place as the UK’s most popular games console. According to UK retailers, quoting GfK Entertainment figures, PS4 passed the 3m sales milestone back in January. The news comes as the firm fills two key roles at its UK division. Richard Keen has been promoted to …
Read More »Major book publisher launches gamebook app series
Book publishing giant Hachette is launching a book mobile app that combines reading with gameplay. The firm has teamed up with New Star Games and Martyn Brown’s Insight Studios to create a New Star Soccer Story, which is based on the 20m-selling New Star Soccer mobile game. The title will …
Read More »Industry pays tribute to Fergus McGovern
The UK games industry has paid tribute to Fergus McGovern, who tragically passed away at the weekend at just 50. An influential man in the business, Fergus has many friends at the top end of the games industry. In fact, he had given many of them their first jobs. A …
Read More »Games industry veteran Fergus McGovern has passed away
Popular toys and video game entrepreneur Fergus McGovern passed away at the weekend. He was just 50. McGovern is best known for co-founding Probe, a games developer that had worked on a number of major video game franchises including FIFA, Alien, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Mortal Kombat. He sold …
Read More »Interview: Take-Two’s work in progress
2015 was not a big year for Take-Two. There was multiplayer shooter Evolve in February, GTA V was released on PC in April and, of course, the annual big hitters of NBA and WWE. But outside of that, it was an unusually quiet year for the publisher. And that’s a …
Read More »Digital points cards hit £160m
Sales of digital points cards in stores rose slightly from 158m in 2014 to 160m last year. The main area of growth in this sector are cards bought for specific individual titles, which was valued at 27m in 2015. IHS estimates that over 1.224bn was spent on PC and console …
Read More »PC games hardware market bucks wider technology trends
The sales of PC hardware may be suffering worldwide, but not in terms of games. Data specialists GfK revealed that sales of PC gaming components and peripherals rose by 13 per cent in 2015. Overall, the PC games hardware market – which also includes graphics cards and headsets – generated …
Read More »Moshi Monsters collapse masks market growth for toy tie-ins
Toys based on game licences are actually in growth, despite what the numbers suggest, NPD has said. The toy tracker’s latest data – which does not include toys-to-life – shows that 62.3m was made from game-inspired toys, an eight per cent dip. But this is entirely down to Moshi Monsters. …
Read More »Is GameStop’s publishing move the future of the retailer, or just an interesting side-project?
On the surface, Song of the Deep doesn’t come across as anything particularly remarkable. The 2D underwater action adventure is pretty, and bound to delight a certain type of gamer. But ultimately it looks like most other 2D indie games that are on the market at the moment. Yet there …
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