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Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima has revealed more details about Nintendo’s future mobile strategy, stating the company plans to release multiple games each year going forward. Speaking at an investor Q&A session, Kimishima said: "We plan to continue releasing two to three titles per year that consumers can enjoy as Nintendo’s …
Read More »Physical game sales drive Sega profits for 2016
Sega has released its consolidated results for the nine months ended December 31st 2016, and its sales and profits are both up year-on-year. Net sales rose by 16.6 per cent to 285.7bn (2.05bn) year-on-year, while profits increased by 462.1 per cent to 36.5bn (262m). As for Sega’s Entertainment Contents Business, …
Read More »FIFA 18 coming to Switch, Moore confirms
EA’s FIFA title for the Nintendo Switch will be FIFA 18, EA’s chief competition officer Peter Moore has confirmed. Speaking to GameReactor at a FIFA event in Paris this weekend, Moore said that the custom-built Switch title will indeed be the next entry in EA’s long-running football franchise rather than …
Read More »Playground Games to build new team to develop non-racing title
Forza Horizon 3 developer Playground Games has said it plans to build a new team in its hometown of Leamington Spa in order to work on a new, non-racing title, MCV’s sister site Develop has revealed. "One of the things we did recently, which was beforeHorizoncame out was really look …
Read More »InnoGames increased revenue by 25 per cent in 2016
German mobile and browser game studio InnoGames increased its revenue by 25 per cent last year, taking it to a record high of €130m (around 112m), the company revealed today in its 2016 financial report. In its mobile business, InnoGames beat last year’s revenue results by 68 per cent, stating …
Read More »Koch Media and Milestone sign distribution partnership
Koch Media has announced a new distribution partnership with Italian developer and publisher Milestone. The partnership will begin with the release of the next entry in Milestone’s MXGP franchise, MXGP3 – The Official Motocross Videogame, and will see Koch Media being the exclusive distributor of all Milestone’s 2017 titles. After …
Read More »Nintendo has "mastered" the Unreal Engine, says Miyamoto
Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto has said the company’s internal development teams have "mastered" the Unreal Engine, according to VentureBeat. Speaking at a Q&A session with investors in Kyoto, Miyamoto reportedly spoke at length about how the team had been experimenting with the popular game engine and how the Switch had been …
Read More »Rainbow Six Siege Year 2 update available now
Ubisoft has announced that the first free update from Rainbow Six Siege Year 2 is now available for Xbox One, PS4 and PC. Year 2 pass holders can download the Operation Velvet Shell update from today, but non-season pass holders will have to wait until February 14th before they can …
Read More »Fire Emblem Heroes made $2.9m on Day One, says new report
Fire Emblem Heroes, Nintendo’s latest mobile game, made $2.9m on its first day, according to mobile data firm Sensor Tower, after being downloaded over 2m times on Android and iOS. That’s still some way behind Nintendo’s first app, Super Mario Run, which Sensor Tower estimates grossed $8.4m in revenue on …
Read More »Mass Effect Andromeda: Everything you need to know, release date, free trial, price, pre-order deals, season pass, PS4 Pro support and official merchandise
Bioware’s Mass Effect trilogy was one of the most popular sci-fi series of the last generation. Now the Canadian studio’s finally bringing its grand space opera to PS4, Xbox One and PC. Dubbed Mass Effect Andromeda, the latest entry in its intergalactic RPG series promises a world four times the …
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