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Apple’s App Store has hit 40 billion downloads, less than a year afterreaching 25bn downloads back in March.The announcement follows Flurry’s study that showed1.76bn Android and iOS apps were downloaded in the last week of 2012. Apple certainly had a bumper December as the App Store reached 2bn downloads during …
Read More »Investment group buys 6% of Take-Two
The Citadel Investment Group upped its stake in Take-Two over the holidays, and now owns about six per cent of the Grand Theft Auto publisher. With GTA V on the horizon the group, owned by billionaire Ken Griffen, is not the only firm to take an interest in the company. …
Read More »50 things to look forward to in 2013
MCV runs through the biggest releases and events that will grow the industry over the next 12 months. 1. Grand Theft Auto VWatch out Call of Duty, the previous ‘biggest entertainment launch of all time’ wants its crown back. Rockstar has drip fed information about its next game to the …
Read More »OPINION: New Year’s Revolution – 2013 is the year where everyone is a retailer
Fresh data this week suggests the worst: selling video games in the UK during 2012 was a storm of recession and poor momentum. Total software sales were down 17.6 per cent overall. Modest gains in digital sales, up 7.7 per cent to 552m, was not enough to cover the 26.4 …
Read More »Portal dev Kim Swift urges action to tackle industry sexism
Airtight Games creative director Kim Swift has called on women developers to tackle sexism in the game industry. In a newblog post, the Quantum Conundrum creator admitted that sexism is a common occurrence for many women in the game industry, and said that the recent furore over twitter on the …
Read More »Microsoft acquires R2, beats Google and Apple
Microsoft has acquired US home entertainment start-up R2 Studios for an undisclosed sum. The technology giant has also obtained some patents related to controlling electronics as part of its deal with R2, which was originally reported by theWall Street Journal. It is thought that these will be used to bolster …
Read More »The War Z creator Titov issues public apology
One of the creators behind War Z, a zombie survival MMO that received a wave of criticism before being locked on Steam, has apologised to its players. Sales of the zombie MMO were halted and some buyers refunded in December, after claims of misleading advertising”, forum censorship and controversial microtransactions …
Read More »Fez branching out to new platforms
Hit Xbox Live isometric platformer Fez is to go multi-platform this year, developer Phil Fish has revealed. Summing up his year in game development with Polytron, the indie said he had listened to a number of fans asking for the title to be ported to other systems, although he did …
Read More »Japanese PS2 production halted – the first step toward PS4?
Sony has stopped manufacturing the amazingly successful PS2 in Japan. The games console first went on sale in March 2000 in Japan and has since sold then more than 150 million units worldwide, and still holds the record for the best-selling home console of all time. Approximately 11,000 games are …
Read More »Black Ops II is the UK’s Christmas No.1 game
Call of Duty Black Ops II is the UK’s video games Christmas No.1, giving Activision a run of six consecutive weeks at the top. Sales of the game were fractionally up by one per cent in the busy pre-Christmas trading week (ending Dec 22nd for this listing). It’s the first …
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