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Industry trade body UKIE will publish a report next week outlining how to make crowd funding legal for UK games firms. It wants to change legislation so that publishers and other games companies can receive money from large numbers of individuals, in order to fund new projects. The news comes …
Read More »Microsoft Flight lands on February 29th
PC owners will be able to download Microsoft Flight for free in a matter of weeks, with paid-for content available at launch. The flight simulator game is the first from Microsoft to adopt a free-to-play model, unlike previous boxed Flight Sim instalments. Consumers can fly around the ‘Big Islands of …
Read More »Twisted Metal UK release date confirmed
PlayStation 3 exclusive Twisted Metal will arrive in the UK on February 17th, Sony has told MCV. The destructive driving game is the latest in Sony’s long-running franchise, which first arrived on the original PlayStation in 1995. The new Twisted Metal was previously scheduled to arrive in October last year …
Read More »House of the Dead 3 and 4 creep onto PSN
PS3 owners will be able to download House of the Dead 3 exclusively via PSN next month, with its sequel to follow in spring. Sega’s popular arcade zombie shooter title The House of the Dead 3 will arrive on the PlayStation Network on February 7th, featuring HD graphics, trophies and …
Read More »Sony outlines UK Vita tour
UK consumers will be able to go hands-on with PlayStation Vita games such as Uncharted: Golden Abyss before the handheld launches. Sony is bringing ‘Vita Rooms’ to UK cities such as Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham and London in January and February 2012. The first event will kick off on Friday, January …
Read More »Sega shooter Binary Domain out February
The squad-based third-person shooter designed by Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi will arrive in the UK on February 17th next year. Binary Domain puts gamers in the middle of a futuristic war set in Tokyo in 2080. It will be available on both Xbox 360 and PS3. The shooter joins other …
Read More »Black Ops claims all-time US crown
Following its chart-topping performance in February, US sales tracker NPD has confirmed that Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops has become the best-selling game ever in the region. In does so after just four months on the market, overtaking Nintendo’s former record holder Wii Play. Capcom’s Marvel vs Capcom 3 …
Read More »AvP devours February charts
The big games of February may have belonged to Sega, Ubisoft and Take-Two, but it was EA that emerged as the biggest publisher last month. The publisher’s vast back catalogue drove sales, with FIFA 10, Mass Effect 2 and Dante’s Inferno the key products. Sega was the highest riser in …
Read More »UK games market holds steady in Feb
The value of the UK games software market in February fell two per cent year-on-year, according to ELSPA/GfK Chart-Track. The monthly charts show that Sega’s sci-fi FPS Aliens vs Predator was the biggest selling title of last month. Sega’s action shooter Aliens vs Predator saw off stiff competition from 2K’s …
Read More »Sales boom puts EA back on top
It’s been a bumper 2010 so far for EA, thanks to a 3.6 per cent year-on-year rise in sell through for the publisher. The latest numbers from ELSPA GfK Chart-Track show EA claim 19.1 per cent of the year-to-date UK software market, driven in no small part by a highly …
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