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November’s barnstorming Black Friday week was one of the busiest seven days of sales in UK games industry history. Almost 2m games were sold that generated around 62m in revenue. It was a huge week, with 240,000 Xbox Ones and PS4s shifted through stores. Yet amongst the commercial success, there …
Read More »FIFA 15 continues its winning streaks in UK charts
It’s Christmas, and there are always two games that dominate this time of year. FIFA and Call of Duty. And that’s exactly how this year is turning out as well. FIFA 15 is No.1 again and Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is No.2. Again. Both titles suffered minor declines in …
Read More »In Pictures: The PlayStation ’94 shop
Sony opened a shop today to celebrate 20 years since the launch of the first PlayStation. Opened on Bethnal Green Road, the store was offering the first 94 in the queue a special PS4 Limited Edition Grey console for just 19.94. And the queue was massive, with chat show host …
Read More »The Witcher 3 dev: The market is afraid of badly polished games
The creators of The Witcher 3 says the firm had to delay the game to remove ‘small errors’ that the market is afraid of. The firm stated that the delay was made so that ‘details could be corrected’ and admitted that it had ‘set the release date too hastily’, and …
Read More »‘We will always have a regular supply of Amiibo," says Nintendo
Nintendo has told GameSpot that it will continue to supply Amiibo toys to retailers, following confusion that some figures had been discontinued already. US retailer Video Game Plus stated that some Amiibo toys – including Fire Emblem star Marth, Villager from Animal Crossing and the Wii Fit Trainer would be …
Read More »OPINION: 20 Years of PlayStation – Did we really grow up?
This week we’ve been celebrating the 20th birthday of PlayStation (well, the Japanese birthday anyway). Sony threw a party, put together a lovely grey PS4 model, sold it for 19.94 and then gamers immediately put it on eBay. The media ran nostalgia-tinged articles on the birth of a new gaming …
Read More »Microsoft Flight Simulator X comes to Steam
The flight simulation market has finally something to cheer at Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition will launch on December 18th. It means that flight sim developers will be free to build add-ons for the hit title once again. The title will be available just for PC and has been …
Read More »Take-Two: Removing GTA V from stores ‘flies in the face of everything that free society is based on’
Publisher Take-Two has slammed Target and Kmart’s decision to pull GTA V from its shelves. The two Australian retailers took the game off its shelves last week due to consumer pressure regarding the game’s content. "It’s one thing for someone to not want to buy a piece of content, which …
Read More »Limited Edition Grey PS4s on sale for £19.94 in London today
Sony are selling the super limited edition grey PS4 in the UK today… for just 19.94. 19.94… 1994… 20 years of PlayStation? Get it? Of course you do. But there are only 94 consoles available and some gamers were queuing up from last night to snap up the rare item, …
Read More »No sex please, we’re Facebook
Why are so many consumers reacting badly to video game Facebook advertising? The social network’s global director of gaming sales, Rick Kelley, tells MCV why publishers ought to cover up their salacious stars… At London Games Conference, you described Facebook as being a personal newspaper. What did you mean? Your …
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