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Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’s return to the No.1 UK retail charts position means it is now drawing with Grand Theft Auto V’s top spot tally. According to the latest Ukie Games Chart, compiled by GfK Chart-Track, sales of Activision’s latest entry in the blockbuster shooter IP surged 27 per …
Read More »Grand Theft Auto V No.1 for the seventh time; Call of Duty Ghosts back in Top Ten
Grand Theft Auto V is once again No.1 in the GfK Chart-Track Top 40. This is the seventh time that Rockstar’s crime title has take the top spot, meaning it has more No.1s than any other Grand Theft Auto title. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare returns to second place, while …
Read More »Strauss Zelnick: There’s more to Take-Two than Grand Theft Auto
If you’ve read any of our Take-Two interviews in recent years, you’ll have read the same story: Take-Two is no-longer the Grand Theft Auto company. It’s something CEO Strauss Zelnick likes to remind us at every available moment. They have over 30 1m+ selling brands, he says. But that’s actually …
Read More »Heard About: Life after Rockstar-dom
John Broomhall talks to Will Morton and Craig Conner, two time-served audio veterans of world-renowned developer Rockstar Games as they contemplate pastures new
Read More »Does Ubisoft have Rockstar on the run?
Alex Ward posits that the Watch Dogs firm is a new challenger in the realm of open world games
Read More »Rockstar vets form Solid Audioworks
Former Rockstar developers Craig Conner and Will Morton have opened a new production studio dubbed Solid Audioworks. The pair most recently worked together at Rockstar North and both have worked extensively on the Grand Theft Auto franchise. Morton served as a dialogue supervisor and senior audio designer for the series, …
Read More »Meet the new-look MCV
Regular readers of MCV magazine will notice a significant change from this week. Our bumper-sized E3 feature doesn’t just feature a raft of great content and market information, but a fresh new look and feel. We’ve introduced new sections, more data, industry columnists, introduced a new Big Game feature that …
Read More »Rockstar working on GTA: City Stories?
Take-Two has registered the name City Stories, which has seen the internet speculate about a possible new GTA. Of course it makes sense. City Stories was the name of the PSP GTA sub-series – namely Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. Does that …
Read More »Grand Theft Auto creators make wealthiest Brit list
Houser brothers valued with a combined fortune estimated at £90m
Read More »Highland games: Is Scotland the next Finland?
Kicking off a week of special features looking at games development in Scotland, we find out why the nation attracts so much talent
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