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Zoological lifestyle simulator Animal Crossing has held strong at the top of the Japanese charts in a week dominated by Nintendo. The latest entry in the casual franchise, Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer, sold more than 172,000 units in its third week on sale – nearly triple the 60,832total of …
Read More »Egmont to launch Download magazine, focus on digital brands ‘from toys-to-life to YouTubers’
Children’s publisher Egmont is to combine the digital with the old-fashioned in a new magazine. Download is the latest in the ‘AllAbout’ series, and will report on the biggest digital products and companies in the games industry for kids aged between six and 12. This apparently includes everything from toys-to-life, …
Read More »Margin Makers: Guide to Destiny merchandise
Bungie’s blockbuster shooter is getting its greatest add-on yet in The Taken King. MCV looks at the merchandise surrounding the major launch The biggest new IP of 2014 is about to get even bigger. Launched last September, Activision and Bungie’s MMO-cum-FPS Destiny had over 16 million registered players at the …
Read More »Guillermo Del Toro vows to ‘never again get involved with video games’ after Insane and Silent Hills disasters
Pan’s Labyrinth and Pacific Rim film directorGuillermo Del Toro has sworn off his involvement with games following the doomed development of his last two efforts. Speaking to Shacknews, Del Toro referred to the unfortunate cancellation of both Insane, which he attempted to create with THQ in 2010 before its cancellation …
Read More »‘Working for Nintendo was my dream’: James Honeywell on landing his ultimate job
Nintendo UK head of consumer marketing James Honeywell is a true industry veteran, with a career stretching back two decades. MCV talks to this year’s MCV Awards Unsung Hero about how his dream came true How did your career get started? I was looking for a job during my first …
Read More »Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 4 is coming to Steam 10 years after its predecessor was released
Aussie-flavoured platforming series Ty the Tasmanian Tiger is back after a decade’s wait. Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 3: Night of the Quinkan was released way back in 2005 for the PS2, original Xbox, GameCube and Game Boy Advance. Yes, that long ago. Ty 4 is leaving the consoles behind to …
Read More »Square Enix to shut down its game streaming service after less than a year
Square Enix’s Dive In game streaming service is to come to an end before its first birthday. The platform was launched in Japan last October, and allowed gamers to play titles such as Final Fantasy XIII and VII on their iOS and Android devices. Players were even able to control …
Read More »‘The name ‘game’ seems to be really limiting for this amazing media’
Games have grown up. It’s hard to imagine someone deconstructing the psychological processes behind Mario’s Goomba-squishing habits (probably an Oedipus complex) 30 years ago, but in 2015 there are countless articles, YouTube videos and even books about the deeper meaning behind titles, their characters and environments. This has led to …
Read More »Pixels on page: How video game books are defying the digital revolution
Nobody reads books now.” It’s a common sentiment and, with paperbacks increasingly replaced by websites, e-readers and apps, it might be tempting to close the book on the traditional publishing sector. Books may appear even more of a terminal case when it comes to games, with countless wiki sites, online …
Read More »‘Horror games are pushing into the mainstream’
Creepy PS4 exclusive Until Dawn will help the horror genre march into the mainstream, says Sony. Product manager Joe Palmer praised the resurrection of the horror game ahead of the release of the PS4 exclusive later this month. The horror genre is huge in the wider entertainment industry,” Palmer told …
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