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Future has posted a loss for the first half of 2014, and has says it plans to reduce its headcount by 170 in the UK. It follows the news that it has sold its sport and craft titles – including its cycling magazines – to Immediate Media in a 24m. …
Read More »Gibbs: GAME IPO is great news for suppliers
Amid uncertainty in the games market, GAME has decided it is time to float on the stock market once again. Risky? Martyn Gibbs tells MCV why it is anything but… Why IPO now and what’s the aim? It has been a lot of work getting us to today. But the …
Read More »2K’s Evolve joins the huge number of games coming in October
The new shooter Evolve will launch on Xbox One, PS4 and PC during the busiest month of the year. The 2K Games title arrives on October 21st worldwide. It joins an October line-up that already includes Alien Isolation, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Dragon Age: Inquisition, DriveClub, Skylanders Trap Team and …
Read More »How Watch Dogs became a blockbuster even before it launched
We don’t even know if it’s any good. That’s what’s quite remarkable about the already huge success of Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs. We’ve never played a game quite like it. It’s a new IP so there’s no previous game in which to draw any expectation from. Outside of the E3 demos, …
Read More »Clever creative iOS game Blek tops UK iOS charts
Simplistic and brilliant iOS game Blek has topped the iPhone charts this week. The game – which has been available since earlier this year – challenges you to slide your finger across the screen to make a black line, which snakes off around the screen. Gamers must get the colour …
Read More »Watch: Crytek new online blockbuster Arena of Fate
So Crytek has teased its latest game Arena of Fate. Outside of a 33 second teaser (which we have included below) very little is known about the game, other than it’s an ‘action-packed’ online title, it’s out this summer and there’s a website – arenaoffate.com (which currently goes nowhere). Oh, …
Read More »2K reveals WWE 2K15 launch information on Twitter
The next WWE game will be the first on next-generation consoles, 2K has announced. WWE 2K15 will arrive on Xbox One, PS4, Xbox 360 and PS3 on October 31st (for our US audience, that’s October 28th). Rather than send out a press release with a generic comment, 2K made the …
Read More »Rockstar working on GTA: City Stories?
Take-Two has registered the name City Stories, which has seen the internet speculate about a possible new GTA. Of course it makes sense. City Stories was the name of the PSP GTA sub-series – namely Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. Does that …
Read More »Can Mario Kart 8 save the Wii U?
Did you know the blue ‘spiny’ shell in Mario Kart can now be stopped? I didn’t. Nintendo UK’s Mario brand manager Roger Langford revealed this to me in our interview this week. A new special item can stop the shell (which for the six people who don’t know mercilessly hunts …
Read More »Future UK plans to cut 13 games staff, close five websites and move all magazines to Bath
More of Future’s proposed cuts to its games department are coming to light. The entire games portfolio is set to lose 13 members from its 51-strong team. And the websites of Edge, OXM, ONM and OPM could be closed. This was assumed yesterday when we discovered that CVG faces closure …
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