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GfK Chart-Track has warned the games industry that it might lose its best PR tool if it fails to share digital data. The firm, which operates the UK Top 40, says it is ready to support downloads in its chart, but that it’s up to the games industry to want …
Read More »Indies speak out as more games miss out in digital charts farce
Two major British indie releases would have entered the All-Formats charts this week if digital figures had been counted. Volume, the new game from Mike Bithell, would have at least made the Top Ten, according to MCV sources. It comes a week after Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture, the PS4 …
Read More »Major publishers silent over data sharing
The world’s biggest games publishers refused to comment on whether they would be willing to share download data. MCV contacted every major games publisher to ask if they would like a digital chart. And although two firms admitted that including download data in an overall chart is something they would …
Read More »Mind Candy has ‘made changes’ to Moshi Monsters following ASA ruling
Mind Candy says it has already changed Moshi Monsters after breaching the Advertising Code. The Advertising Standards Agency issued a ruling against Moshi Monsters, and rival kids online game Bin Weevils, that it was directly exhorting children to make in-game purchases. It followed a complaint made about the game to …
Read More »Back to the ’90s: Industry turns back the clock 20 years as 1990s mania hits the games business
Resident Evil 2 is the latest game to ride the wave of ‘90s nostalgia that has swept into the market. The iconic 1998 horror game is being remade, publisher Capcom has announced. The news comes just two months after Square Enix revealed that its own 1990s epic – Final Fantasy …
Read More »Fallout boy: Bethesda’s Pete Hines on the biggest 12 months in the publisher’s history
At E3 2014, Bethesda told MCV that it had never announced a game at the LA show before. 12 months later, not only did the firm announce projects, they actually launched one, and did so via a curtain-raising press conference brimming with confidence. In an act of stated symbolism, Fallout …
Read More »There is ‘no way’ Fallout Shelter will make more money than Fallout 4
Bethesda’s marketing VP has dismissed the idea that Fallout Shelter might make more money than Fallout 4. Fallout Shelter was released during E3, it topped the Apple App Store in 48 countries and was played more than 70m times a day during that period. SuperData estimates the game made over …
Read More »Firaxis considered remaking Terror from the Deep
Firaxis says a remake of XCOM classic Terror from the Deep is still a possibility. The 2K-owned studio brought XCOM back from the dead in 2012 with XCOM: Enemy Unknown, a remake of the original 1994 strategy classic of the same name. It led some fans to call for a …
Read More »Former games veteran who was hit by car is seeking money for mobility vehicle
A former video games industry exec – who has had stints at Apple, Activision and Xbox – is raising money after being hit by a car and left immobile. Nick Grange was in a coma for five months and hospilised for nine months after the incident in 2014. He is …
Read More »Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture was the REAL No.1 last week
Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture would have topped the UK charts – if digital data was included. It may well have been the first PSN exclusive release to get to No.1 in the UK, although the lack of historical data makes that impossible to quantify. MCV sources say the interactive …
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