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Read More »The Division claims yet another record
Ubisoft’s shooter RPG hybrid The Division has set yet another record for the publisher. The game today celebrates its fourth consecutive week at the top of the GfK Entertainment All Formats Top 40. That’s the longest run at No.1 for any Ubisoft title in the company’s history. Last month the …
Read More »Fatshark’s Warhammer: End Times – Vermintide passes 500,000 sales
Swedish indie dev sees success on PC with licensed co-op shooter
Read More »Frictional moves to multi-game development as Soma approaches profit
Amnesia: The Dark Descent creator suggests that mixing horror and sci-fi impacted sales of both its titles
Read More »‘Let’s Play videos stopped us earning any money,’ says That Dragon, Cancer creator
‘We underestimated how many people would be satisfied with only watching the game instead of playing it themselves’
Read More »Gameloft cut 850 positions in 2015 to boost profit
‘Significant’ measures affecting a fifth of staff counterbalanced by 13 per cent sales growth
Read More »Firewatch sold 500k in its first month, recouped dev costs in one day
Publisher Panic has expressed its gratitude for the way in which the video games community has made its recent narrative adventure title Firewatch such a great success. The company has revealed that in its first month Campo Santo’s game sold around 500,000 full-price units. Furthermore, it recouped the money spent …
Read More »The Division outsells Zelda Twilight Princess in Japan
Ubisoft’s record-breaking shooter can’t be stopped. Hot on the heels of becoming the fastest selling new IP ever – a crown stolen from Activision’s Destiny – The Division has now claimed another quite remarkable achievement. Famitsu’s weekly sales data for the week ending March 13th names the PS4 version of …
Read More »The Division is the best-ever selling Q1 game
Ubisoft said it was going to do it, and The Division has delivered. Last month the publisher told MCV that it thought The Division could be the best selling Q1 release ever. And that’s precisely what it’s achieved. The Tom Clancy shooter has broken the 11-year record set by Sony’s …
Read More »Cities: Skylines sells 2m copies in first year
Paradox Interactive is celebrating the first birthday of city builder Cities: Skylines by announcing a highly impressive sales milestone. The game has in its first year sold over 2m units worldwide. It’s the fastest selling game the company has ever released. It previously sold 250k units on its first day, …
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