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EA’s blockbuster Titanfall held onto the top spot with little effort as not a single new release entered this week’s chart. Titanfall takes its third consecutive UKIE gFk Chart-Track All Formats No.1 and fourth chart-topping performance since its launch back in March on Xbox One and PC. Elsewhere in the …
Read More »Zynga user numbers have halved in the last year
Zynga has lost nearly half of its daily active userbase and more than half of its monthly active users in the last year. Figures in the mobile and social gaming firm’s latest financial report show that the current number of daily active users is at 28m, up from 27 million …
Read More »Pre-owned Xbox One available for £299
The Xbox One price war rages on as GAME has become the first retailer to break the sub-300 barrier (pre-owned, at least). GAME has slashed the price of a pre-owned Xbox One to just 299.99, well below the retailer’s 329.99 asking price for a second-hand PS4. It’s also a massive …
Read More »Anime sensation Youkai Watch holds Final Fantasy XIV from No.1 in Japan
Square Enix’s Final Fantasy XIV debuted at No.2 in this week’s Japanese chart, the latest Famitsu data reveals. Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn sold over 39,000 units, but fell short of 3DS exclusive Youkai Watch, which topped the chart with 49,000 sales. Published by Professor Layton maker LevelFive, Youkai …
Read More »Twitch, Crytek and Amazon confirmed as first speakers for Develop Conference 2014
Nine of the biggest brands in the games industry have signed-up to speak at this year’s Develop Conference in Brighton. Leading the new speakers is Twitch, as regional director EMEA Stuart Saw will explore the live streaming phenomenon and how developers can maximise the potential of their games on the …
Read More »GamePointsNow slams digital and physical price disparity
It’s cheaper to buy a boxed game with a digital code inside than to just buy the code, says online retailer GamePointsNow. The firm’s MD Simon Ward says publishers are charging retailers more for digital games than physical ones as it eliminates the cost of stock holding and removes the …
Read More »Four GungHo games are making $1m per month
GungHo Entertainment has four games each generating around $1m per month in revenue. CEO Kazuki Morishita said, in an interview withBloomberg, that the Japanese publisher has six profitable title overall, with four of those breaking 100 million (583,576) every month. That isn’t good enough for the Morishita, however, who said …
Read More »Frontier acquires Elite rights as Braben readies share sale
David Braben is to sell up to 1.6m shares in Frontier Developments following the buyout of an IT firm which holds the rights to the Elite franchise he co-created. Frontier purchased software and IT consultancy Professional Practice Automation in a 5.09m deal on Tuesday, April 15th. Braben, CEO of Frontier, …
Read More »Fable Anniversary lead designer leaves Lionhead
The lead designer for Fable Anniversary has departed Lionheadafter over seven years at the studio. Ted Timmins, who joined the Guildford studio full-time in 2007, said he has taken the tough decision” to leave over several messages on Twitter. This was a really tough decision, as I’ve had such an …
Read More »25,000 second-gen Oculus dev kits sold
Oculus has sold 25,000 second-generation development kits in less than a month of pre-orders going live. The figure was revealed toTechCrunch, which means sales of the new DK2 version for developers is outpacing the last. Pre-orders for the new kit went live on March 19th. Sales of the first generation …
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