HIGHLIGHTS Nintendo is buying a 5-percent stake in Cygames Cygames is best known for Granblue Fantasy Dragalia Lost is a action role-playing game Japanese video game maker Nintendo said on Friday it has teamed up with Tokyo-based online games developer Cygames, aiming to step up the mobile gaming business and reduce reliance on volatile console sales. The […]
HIGHLIGHTS Steam revenue in 2017 was its best yet Over 7,696 games were released on Steam in 2017 Half of its revenue came from 100 games PC gaming may have had its fair share of issues related to prohibitive pricing of hardware and gamesbut that hasn’t stopped digital distribution platform Steam from having its best year ever in terms of […]
HIGHLIGHTS Sony’s PS4 sold over 73.6 million units since its launch in 2013 5.9 million PS4 consoles have been sold over the holiday season PS4 games have sold 645 million units across retail and digital stores Sony has announced that its PS4 sales have hit 73.6 million. Over 5.9 million PS4 consoles were sold during the holiday […]
HIGHLIGHTS Games The Shop has started trade-ins It’s currently limited to a single outlet for now The number of games you can trade-in will expand soon Specialist Indian games store chain Games The Shop has begun trade-ins for used games. After CEX, it is the only brick and mortar retailer to allow customers to trade games in for store […]
Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings said on Thursday it could help Snapchat owner Snap publish video games and improve ad sales after acquiring a 12 percent stake in the US social media network. Snap’s disclosure in a US regulatory filing that Tencent had recently bought 145.8 million of its shares on the open market set off a wave of speculation among investors about […]
Popular game engine Unity has signed a deal with GameCredits, a Belgrade-based company that runs GPlay – a mobile game store that uses digital blockchain currency that is also called GameCredits. GameCredits’ mobile game store, GPlay, will be integrated with Unity’s game development ecosystem and developers will be able to publish their games directly to GPlay. GPlay […]
Gaming publisher giant Electronic Arts is bringing FIFA 18 to Nintendo Switch, but what about other titles? Worldwide Studios VP Patrick Soderlund said in a new interview that while he is personally excited about Nintendo and the Switch, it’s too soon to say whether or not EA will release more of its games or build new ones for […]
It’s time to settle the age old debate about whether Sonic was actually fun or just something we all pretended to like to piss off our friends. I honestly can’t ever remember every enjoying the games. What I do enjoy are my memories of playing the games which have little to do with actually trying […]
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy – is nostalgia getting out of control? The morning Inbox asks about GoldenEye 007 on a Mini N64, as one reader is happy to have been a guinea pig for PlayStation VR. To join in with the discussions yourself email [email protected] PLEASE NOTE: We are running very low on Reader’s Features […]
Sega is re-releasing some of its most popular retro titles on Android and iOS, under a new service banner called Sega Forever. Five Sega Genesis games are available at launch: Altered Beast, Comix Zone, Kid Chameleon, Phantasy Star II, and Sonic the Hedgehog. Each title is free of cost, though players can pay Rs. 160 […]