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Games trade body Ukie launched a new report today outlining the potential impact of Brexit on the UK games industry, stating that access to highly skilled international talent was one of the top priorities for UK games businesses. The report, entitled State of Play: The UK games industry’s priorities for …
Read More »Nintendo Switch biggest console launch in Europe, Zelda: Breath of the Wild biggest-selling launch title
Nintendo UK has confirmed that the Switch has sold more units in its launch weekend than any other piece of Nintendo hardware in the company’s history, and that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is now the biggest-selling Nintendo launch title in Europe, even out-selling Wii Sports in …
Read More »Sega acquires Crytek Black Sea to form Creative Assembly Sofia
Sega Europe and Creative Assembly have acquired Crytek’s former Black Sea studio to create a brand-new facility known as Creative Assembly Sofia, the publisher has announced today. The 60-strong Bulgaria-based development team will be developing new titles in addition to Creative Assembly’s currently unannounced slate of games for 2017 and …
Read More »Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon Wildlands film to ‘stand alongside other feature-length documentaries’
Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon series is built on ‘what if?’ scenarios. For example, what if Russia was taken over by nationalist extremists who wanted to rebuild the Soviet Union? What if those same nationalists then wanted to team up with an Ethiopian colonel to invade Eritrea? Those were the …
Read More »Playground Games sees benefit in mobile
Forza Horizon 3 studio Playground Games said it considered making games for mobile, but that it won’t be racing to abandon consoles any time soon. Speaking to MCV, CEO Gavin Raeburn stated that while mobile games have been fantastic” at widening the gaming population, Playground’s been hesitant to enter mobile …
Read More »Industry positive about Nindie Switch combo
After facing weeks of criticism over the Switch’s software line-up, Nintendo unveiled a swathe of new indie games for the console on Tuesday, bolstering the platform’s 2017 line-up with 60 ‘Nindie’ titles to arrive by the end of the year. Among them are Image & Form’s SteamWorld Dig 2, Team17’s …
Read More »GameSeek to raise Switch price back up to RRP
After honoring its Switch pre-order price of 198.50, UK retailer GameSeek has told MCV that it will be raising the price of the console to match its RRP of 279.99. We do everything we can for our customers, but keeping [Switch] at this price post-launch is impossible due to the …
Read More »IHS: Switch to hit 4.4m sales by end of 2017
IHS Markit has forecasted the Nintendo Switch will sell 4.4m units by the end of 2017, with the vast majority of buyers being either existing Nintendo console or handheld owners or general early adopters. That’s a slightly more conservative estimate compared to SuperData’s earlier report, which stated the research firm …
Read More »Talking heads: RuneScape comes to Alexa
We’ve seen plenty of surprise partnerships in the games industry over the years. Valve teamed up with phone maker HTC to create Vive, for example, and even the once staunchest of platform rivals, Nintendo and Sega, are now working side by side – except during the Olympics, of course. But …
Read More »PS4 sales rise 64% in Japan as NieR: Automata debuts at No.1
PS4 sales in Japan shot up 64 per cent last week, according to the latest data from Famitsu, thanks to a number of new PS4 titles in the Japanese Top Ten. Chief among them was Nier: Automata, which debuted at the top of the charts after shifting 182,762 units. It’s …
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