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Future’s PC gaming site PCGamer.com has experienced what the company says is record-breaking growth following the roll-out of its redesign last month. Worldwide, page views for the month hit 52m – 109 per cent up on the previous record of 24.9m. Page views have jumped 111 per cent and average …
Read More »Game over for the Official Magazine?
The news last week that Future and Nintendo had decided to close Official Nintendo Magazine is a sad sign of the times. UK Nintendo magazines have come and gone over the years. The biggest casualty before now had been in 2012 when Nintendo Gamer – the successor to a long …
Read More »Future is closing Official Nintendo Magazine
Nintendo and Future have announced the closure of Official Nintendo Magazine. Its last issue – number 114 – will go on sale on October 14th. The mag first arrived in the UK in 2002, with Future assuming publishing duties from EMAP in 2006. Nintendo will continue to speak directly to …
Read More »Games Media Profile: Future
Daniel Dawkins, group editor-in-chief for games, tells MCV about Future Publishing’s major transition and the challenge of good journalism What are your main campaigns at the moment? We’re busy with the Golden Joysticks Awards, which move to a fantastic new venue this year, Indigo at 02. We’ve already broken a …
Read More »Future’s Total Film, SFX Online and GamesRadar to combine into one site
Publishing outlet Future has announced its plans to combine TotalFilm.com, SFX.co.uk and GamesRadar.com into a single website. The unified networks will re-launch as a single entity in November, with a new-look website delivering film, TV and game exclusives, reviews and offers. Under the new structure, a new channel on GamesRadar.com …
Read More »Future confirms plans to move all games mags to Bath office
All video games magazines currently running out of Future’s London office are to be moved to Bath. The move was first proposed as a possibility back in May but has now been confirmed, Future has told MCV. In addition, Daniel Dawkins has been appointed group editor-in-chief for games with James …
Read More »GameSpot signs CVG vet
CVG associate editor Rob Crossley has left the gaming website. He started working at CVG in May 2012, having previously been online editor for MCV’s sister title Develop. I’m incredibly proud of the work CVG has produced during my tenure as associate editor and I will miss my colleagues dearly,” …
Read More »Microsoft cloud ‘DeLorean’ system can (sort of) see the future
Microsoft Research is working on a new cloud gaming system that aims to reduce network latency by predicting what input players will enter next. The project, codenamed DeLorean, produces "speculative rendered frames" of potential future outcomes and delivers them to players once the relevant input is identified, according to the …
Read More »Sony: Move was ahead of its time but will be revived by Project Morpheus
It doesn’t look like Sony intends to release any motion controlled games in the near future, but PlayStation Move may yet have its day. The motion controller had by the end of 2012 sold in the region of 15m units – which isn’t bad considering PS3 sales stand at around …
Read More »Spencer: I don’t want the Rare brand to mean Kinect Sports
Xbox boss Phil Spencer has once again reiterated Microsoft’s desire to ensure that Rare isn’t left languishing in a post-Kinect haze. Having made its names with a string of hit titles during Nintendo’s console heyday, in recent times the now Microsoft owned studio has effectively been tasked with stewarding the …
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