Last night’s Nintendo Direct may have been all about Nintendo’s upcoming Switch title ARMS, but it also unveiled a brand-new range of Splatoon 2 accessories at the very end, chief among them being a brand-new limited edition Splatoon 2 Switch hardware bundle. Sadly, the limited edition bundle will come with …
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Mario Kart 8 Deluxe enjoyed its third week at No.1 in the Japanese software charts last week, after selling another 30,745 units, according to the latest data from Famitsu. This takes its cumulative total to just shy of 400,000 units, (397,287, to be exact), after a fall of 64 per …
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Curve Digital has appointed Alex Moyet as marketing director. Previously Moyet was the in-house commercial strategist for Media Molecule and its upcoming PS4 title Dreams, and also co-founded the specialist games marketing consultancy Amcade. She also worked on the Xbox account at ad agency McCann Erickson, before joining Sony Computer …
Read More »Ubisoft caused quite a stir last year when it told MCV its Week One sales were "important" but "not critical" to the company’s ongoing success. Indeed, after a disappointing month at retail during November, the comments of its VP of live operations Anne Blondel couldn’t have been timelier. After all, …
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Activision will be unveiling its official Destiny 2 gameplay premiere global livestream this evening, and you can watch it all right here at MCV. The action kicks off at 6pm UK time, and will be broadcasted from an airplane hangar in Hawthorne, California, according to Activision. Developer Bungie will be …
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Nintendo has announced it sold over 280,000 Switch units in the US last month, making it the best-selling piece of hardware in April according to new figures from NPD. This is the second month in a row that the Switch has topped NPD’s US hardware charts. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe …
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Konami’s PES 2018 is coming on September 14th 2017, the publisher has announced today, and will bring a swathe of improvements to the long-running football franchise, including a digital PC version on Steam in addition to the usual console offerings on PS4, Xbox One, PS3 and Xbox 360. According to …
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Paradox Interactive is to open a new studio completely dedicated to mobile game development, the publisher announced today. The new studio will open inMalm, Sweden – the home of Little Nightmares developers Tarsier Studios and Massive Entertainment – and will be populated with a small team of developers led by …
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Hot off the back of securing $500m of investment from Softbank, UK developer Improbable has just secured its most high profile partner yet in the form of Jagex. The two UK companies have today announced a technology partnership that will see the Runescape developer use Improbable’s SpatialOS tech in a …
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HTC Vive has finally brought its financing scheme to the UK, allowing would-be VR fans to get their hands on a Vive headset for under 35-per-month plus shipping, making it cheaper than a top-end smartphone contract. The contract, which lasts 24 months, offers 9.9 per cent APR representative financing (from …
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