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Research firm Juniper projects worldwide digital content revenue will reach $154bn annually by 2019, with gaming expected to represent the largest share of that total. Games Industry has word on a portion of Juniper’s findings from its Digital Content Business Models: OTT & Operator Strategies 2015-2019 report, which shows gaming …
Read More »Digital console sales down in February as Evolve underperforms – SuperData
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare brought in the most digital sales via consoles last month, beating out the likes of Grand Theft Auto V as well as new releases including Evolve and The Order. Games Industry reports on SuperData’s latest monthly digital console sales report, which shows a total of …
Read More »Current console cycle could be last of its kind, Twitch CEO says
The console cycle as we know it may be at an end, according to Twitch CEO Emmett Shear. In an interview with The Guardian, Shear predicts that hardware makers like Microsoft and Sony will shift their console release strategy to fall in line with the more frequent upgrade cycles of …
Read More »Raptr to stop tracking console data, become PC-only service
Games-centric tracking and social network Raptr has ditched console support. Until now Raptr has kept track of its members game time across Xbox, PlayStation and PC but in the future it will only track PC activity. When Raptr started out, we offered Steam and XBL achievements and PSN trophy tracking, …
Read More »PS4 and Vita get second Chinese launch date
The nod has again been given for PS4 and PlayStation Vita to go on sale in China. The Verge reports that both consoles will be released on March 20th at the price they were originally announced at – CY 2,899 (307) for the PS4 and CY 1,299 (138) for Vita. …
Read More »Gone Home console ports cancelled
Award-winning PC indie game Gone Home is no longer in development for consoles, developer Fullbright has confirmed. Gone Home creator Steve Gaynor stated as much to Eurogamer, explaining that Fullbright’s deal with struggling publisher Majesco and its now presumably defunct indie publishing arm Midnight City has come to a close …
Read More »Gone Home is no longer coming to consoles
The consoles version of critically acclaimed PC hit Gone Home has been cancelled. DualShockers reports that developer Fullbright’s Steve Gaynor has said that his studio’s agreement with publisher Midnight City has sadly come to an end”. The console SKU was to be published on Majesco’s Midnight City label, and is …
Read More »Tablet ownership ahead of games consoles among UK children
A retail-led survey has found that UK children under the age of 12 are now more likely to own a tablet than a games console. 46 per cent owned a tablet and 43 per cent a games console. These were followed by mobile phones (30%), laptops (28%) and MP3 players …
Read More »January’s top US digital console games generated majority of revenue on PlayStation
New data collected by research firm Superdata claims PlayStation hardware is generating significantly more digital revenue than Xbox in the US. Superdata’s research, which pulls data from 37m paying online gamers" and focuses on the performance of the top ten digital console games of last month, shows 63 per cent …
Read More »Grow Home could hit consoles if success is found on PC
Ubisoft’s experimental PC Grow Home could yet brand out onto other platforms. Want to see Grow Home on consoles?” game artist at Ubisoft Reflections Jack Couvela said. We have to prove ourselves on PC first, so tell every PC gamer you know they have to buy it!” He also said …
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