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The British Academy Games Awards were held last night, with big wins for several UK studios including Ustwo Games, Creative Assembly and Roll7. Ustwo Games were the big winners of the night, picking up two awards for its seminal mobile puzzle game Monument Valley. The title received best British Game …

Why are UK gamers so averse to spending money this year? It’s a question we’ve been asked, in varying forms, several times. And the answers are numerous: these consumers just spent lots on their consoles and they received loads of games with them. There actually haven’t been many games. And …

Activision Blizzard has posted full year net revenue of $4.4bn thanks to the success of four key franchises. The publisher says that multiplayer shooter Destiny and card game Hearthstone between them raked in $850m over the last financial year. Bungie’s shooter now has over 16m registered players while the World …

Bungie temporarily put a highly sought after weapon up for sale in Destiny last week, and the resulting stampede of interests demonstrates the ongoing interest in Activision’s title. The Ice Breaker sniper rifle was for one weekend offered for sale by in-game vendor Xur. The result? 1,143,320 were purchased by …

We speak to Morla Gorrondona about her journey into voice acting and working with Bungie on last year’s smash hit new IP

The Entertainment Retailer’s Association has once again revealed the 20 best selling video games, movies and albums of 2014 in the UK. And not a single parent will be surprised to discover that Disney’s Frozen tops the list. That movie sold a staggering 4.012m copies last year, which is 1.34m …

Ustwo’s Monument Valley wins over notable developers

Bungie has released a slew of statistics for Destiny, revealing that nearly 13m people have played the online FPS. As of the studio’s post earlier today, the game boasts 12,869,066 players across Playstation and Xbox console platforms that have created 22,932,276 guardians and logged 872,404,449 hours collectively. Destiny’s Crota’s End …

When Bungie decided to give up on its world conquering Halo franchise and build something completely new, we all thought it was mad. But they were wrong. Teaming up with publishing behemoth Activision, Bungie has just created yet another video game giant in Destiny. Just a few days after launch, …

The first paid expansion to Destiny has been released – and with it comes a punishment for non-DLC buying players. Destiny each week offers players the chance to take part in an Heroic Strike event that offers high-level gear rewards for top players. However, Polygon reports that this week’s offering …