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New IP is all too rare in the modern market. New IP with a female lead character is rarer still. Capcom has this morning used its Gamescom presentation to reintroduce its Remember Me IP, which was shown off last year under the name Adrift. The game is being developed by …
Read More »Digital could overtake physical in 2-3 years, EA’s Moore believes
The sale of digital product could account for the majority of EA’s revenue within 24 to 26 months. That’s according to EA COO Peter Moore, who told Reuters that: "There will come a point, whether it is two or three years from now, when we say ‘We are doing more …
Read More »Dead End Thrills ends the games as art debate
ADD TO YOUR BOOKMARKS: Is the ‘are the games art?’ debate the most tedious in recorded human history? Perhaps. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t make deadendthrills.com one of your main go-to bookmarks. Because you should. Run by freelance games journalist and former Edge writer Duncan Harris, the site documents …
Read More »Champions and heroes halt UK video games market collapse
UK games retail was rescued by the biggest licences in movies and sport last month, as it struggles through one of the weakest summer of sales in the industry’s history. Physical game sales were down 29.2 per cent year-on-year last month, with just 1.65m games sold, according to UKIE GfK/Chart-Track. …
Read More »Games retailer puts his three-store chain on eBay
Three fully-fledged, profitable North American game stores for $3.5m? That’s the deal being offered by Florida resident Shane Butcher, who has, in his words, put his American dream” life up for sale on eBay. For their money punters will receive three R U Game stores, both of Butcher’s homes, three …
Read More »HMV posts £16m loss for financial year
HMV sales fell 12.1 per cent for the last financial year, with the retailer posting a loss of 16.2m. The loss is roughly in-line with what the entertainment retailer said it would lose back in May. In total HMV generated 923.2m last year. Video games sales plunged 17 per cent …
Read More »UK games market reaches lowest ebb
Olympics fever was good news for publishers of Olympic-based games, but it wasn’t enough to save the UK games market from its worst performance ever last week. UKIE/Chart-Track data reveals that the total value of the physical UK games market for the week ending July 28th 2012 was 8.40m – …
Read More »Books hit digital tipping point – how long until games do the same?
Retailer Amazon has reported that UK consumers are for the first time purchasing more digital books than they are physical copies. Specifically, it currently sells 114 Kindle books for every 100 print books. And it appears that as well as being of benefit to Amazon, the switch to digital has …
Read More »We’ve done our job – now it’s time for parents to do theirs
PEGI age ratings have been law in the UK for a whole week now. But the battle is only just beginning. The successful introduction of a single, legally enforceable age ratings system for video games software is a tremendous victory for a games industry that is still fighting those who …
Read More »Police commissioner blames games for knife crime
Violent video games are directly to blame for an increasing acceptance of violence in everyday society, an Australian police commissioner has claimed. The comments come in the wake of an apparent wave of stabbings amongst the younger communities of Sydney. There is nothing more potentially damaging than the sort of …
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