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Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain are headed to Steam. Series creator Hideo Kojima revealed this at a Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Gamescom preview event in Cologne hosted by Spike TV’s Geoff Keighley. This is fairly big news for PC Metal Gear fans. …
Read More »INTERVIEW: The power of data-driven retail
Every retailer needs a unique selling point, and Green Man Gaming has one in PlayFire. It’s a social networking site that collects information from consumers’ games, such as how far they have progressed and what titles they enjoy. It was acquired by Green Man Gaming back in July 2012, and …
Read More »Destiny beta characters to be wiped
Bungie has confirmed that characters and progress made in last month’s Destiny beta are to be deleted. Players will be unable to carry their characters from the beta over to the full release when it launches in September. According to the developer, this is the result of tweaks made to …
Read More »Second week on top for Last of Us Remastered
Sony’s PlayStation 4 re-release of last year’s classic The Last of Us is top of the GfK Chart-Track Top 40. It holds the top spot with a 55 per cent decline in sales this week. Further down the charts Grand Theft Auto V shoots up to No.4 thanks to a …
Read More »Future reveals new management team
Media company Future has announced its new executive management team. Nial Ferguson has been appointed as content and marketing director, having previously served at Future for six years. Prior to this he was managing director of Future UK. Media veteran Jeff Turner has joined the media firm as commercial director …
Read More »Shelf Life: GAME Southampton
We speak to GAME Southampton sales assistant Tom Dent about the importance of knowing the titles you’re selling, making the effort for midnight launches and the effect Mario Kart can have on team bonding. Tell us about your store team. Our team currently consists of 14 passionate gamers. Although we …
Read More »Football Manager 2015 coming out in November
Sega and Sports Interactive have announced that Football Manager 2015 is headed to stores this November. The title will be released on PC, Mac and Linux. The game is also available to pre-order from today both physically and digitally. Those who are pre-ordering the title will have access to the …
Read More »GamesAid opens nominations for 2014 charities
Members of games industry charity GamesAid can now put forward organisations for possible support this year. This process opened on Monday August 4th, and will close on Monday August 18th. Any member of the charity may put an organisation forward. Charities put forward should focus on helping disadvantaged or disabled …
Read More »3DS dominates Japanese charts
Nintendo’s 3DS is still on top in Japan according to the latest sales data provided by Famitsu. This week the platform holder’s handheld sold a combined total of 41,183 units. This was helped by the fact that seven out of the Top Ten games were for the 3DS. Yokai Watch …
Read More »Ch-Ch-Chucklefishion – Starbound devs discuss the crowdfunding challenge
Amid the hype surrounding Early Access titles like DayZ you might be forgiven for not knowing what Starbound is. It’s a sandbox title being made by London-based Chucklefish and is another in a list of successes on Valve’s Early Access platform. It has sold over 1m copies. It was initially …
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