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Physical copies of Warner Bros’ zombie title Dying Light won’t be available next week as planned. The PS4, Xbox One and PC title will still be released digitally on Tuesday January 27th as planned. There will be a short delay in the release of physical copies of Dying Light in …
Read More »Destiny and Minecraft were the best-selling games on PlayStation Store in 2014
Sony has revealed which games and DLC on the PlayStation Store were big hits last year, with Destiny and Minecraft topping the rankings. Posted on the US PlayStation Blog, the charts show that Activision’s sci-fi shooter Destiny attracted the most downloads on PS4, with ever-popular block-building hit Minecraft the most …
Read More »Strategy dev Cryptic Comet swaps digital for board games
Indie says selling through his own website is 'becoming increasingly difficult'
Read More »Alien pair vanish from Steam
Two of the more recent Alien games to be released on PC have been delisted from Valve’s Steam service. Eurogamer reports that both Rebellion’s 2010 shooter Aliens vs Predator and Gearbox’s lamented 2013 outing Aliens: Colonial Marines are no longer available to download. Lapsed licenses are unlikely to blame, particularly …
Read More »UK veterans Baverstock and Newth open new digital games publisher
Chilled Mouse will release its first game this month
Read More »Destiny DLC is locking game for some PS4 owners
Some PS4 owners who have pre-ordered Destiny’s The Dark Below DLC have been left unable to play the game. GameSpot says that several reports suggest that those affected are when trying to load the game presented with a timer counting down to the release of the DLC tomorrow. For some …
Read More »NIS America: ‘We want to be the big fish in the small pond’
NIS America is easily one of the biggest names in niche gaming. Best known for the popular Japanese role-playing game series Disgaea, the Western arm of Nippon Ichi Software has brought many of its Japanese parent company’s titles across to the US and Europe. In addition to this, the firm …
Read More »GameStop thinks that cheap digital games are a ‘mistake’
The president of GameStop has warned the games industry that it risks repeating the mistake of the music and film sectors by devaluing its main commodity. The average price being paid by a customer rate full game triple-A download is $22,” president Tony Bartel told investors, as transcribed by Seeking …
Read More »FIFA 15 boasting massive online growth as digital blossoms at EA
EA says that on average FIFA 15 is attracting 50 per cent more players online than the numbers achieved by predecessor FIFA 14. FIFA 15 also attracted 3.4m unique players in its first day of availability – a record for the series. Boss Andrew Wilson told investors that overall Ultimate …
Read More »League of Legends tops the global MMO revenue tables as F2P dominates subscriptions
Look, we don’t know if it’s an MMO or a MOBA, so don’t shout at us. That aside, however, SuperData research has named League of Legends as the world’s biggest MMO (or digital online game, as we’d probably label it) with year-to-date revenues of $946m for 2014, claiming 11.9 per …
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