Spec Ops: The Line suddenly delisted from PC stores
Game Developer
JANUARY 30, 2024
Yager's beloved shooter was pulled from PC retailers without any explanation, and 2K has so far not said why.
Randy Pitchford: Borderlands 4's Steam release isn't the end of the PC store wars
Game Developer
AUGUST 22, 2024
Gearbox's loot-shooter series is launching on Steam once more, but Pitchford believes the storefront is still in need a proper retail rival.
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PC games retailer Robot Cache allows players to start games 200x faster than any other games store
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 18, 2024
The PC games retailer is using DACS Laboratories' ROCKITPLAY FastStart Technology on more than 50 games to create 'the fastest game store in the West'. Players can now buy games via Robot Cache and play them 'almost instantly' as they download. ROCKITPLAY is effectively a Netflix-like click-to-play solution.
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Alan Wake 2 shunning physical release to avoid price hike
Game Developer
MAY 25, 2023
The sequel will retail for $59.99 on consoles and $49.99
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PSVR 2 PC adapter to launch on August 7
GamesIndustry.biz
JUNE 4, 2024
Sony is set to launch a PC adapter for its PlayStation VR 2 headset this August. The adapter will be available from PlayStation's own store and "select retailers," Sony said, and will have a $59.99 / €59.99 / £49.99 price tag.
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Video games is no longer the biggest entertainment medium in the UK
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 8, 2024
ERA, which is the UK trade body representing video, music and games retailers, says that revenue made by video games in the UK reached £4.74 That includes sales of digital and physical video games, covering PC, mobile and consoles. The the first time in over ten years, video games is not the UK's biggest entertainment medium.
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Helldivers 2 drives UK March game sales up 26% | UK Monthly Charts
GamesIndustry.biz
APRIL 8, 2024
million PC and console games were sold across the UK during March, an impressive rise of 26% over the same period in 2023. They are, of course, very different games, with Spider-Man 2 retailing at £70 and only releasing on PS5. Helldivers 2 has a lower price and is also available on PC. Read more
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Diablo 4 ends Zelda's four-week stay at No.1 | UK Boxed Charts
GamesIndustry.biz
JUNE 11, 2023
The game didn't sell particularly big numbers at boxed retail, and its launch week sits well behind Zelda, Hogwarts Legacy, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Resident Evil 4 and Dead Island 2. However, as a game that's particularly popular on PC, the vast majority of sales will be via digital download stores. That means the new No.1
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Phil Spencer wants to see other digital storefronts on Xbox
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 27, 2024
Xbox head Phil Spencer has said that he wants to see more digital retailers on the console, such as the Epic Games Store and Itch.io. Nobody would blink twice if I said, 'Hey, when you're using a PC, you get to decide the type of experience you have [by picking where to buy games]'. There's real value in that." Read more
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HR exec says it's on women to solve the industry's sexism problem | 10 Years Ago This Month
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 31, 2023
Steam is great for the retail PC software market. So to refresh our collective memory and perhaps offer some perspective on our field's history, GamesIndustry.biz runs this monthly feature highlighting happenings in gaming from exactly a decade ago. This column has seen some galaxy brain Bad Calls over the years. Read more
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What would it take to have a resurgence of physical games (for PC mostly)? I recall multiple times of digital only games being taken away by companies and there being an uproar about it. But it was never enough to create change.
Ask a Game Dev
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Honestly, there's two major things that need to happen for physical media to be a bigger thing on PC. First, retail stores take a 20% cut of sales while digital doesn't. That's a big chunk of money that the retail stores need to sustain themselves, but that the game publisher also doesn't have to pay when they sell games digitally.
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Bandai Namco is opening a store in London
Game Development News
JUNE 28, 2023
Bandai Namco has announced it is opening a new ‘interactive retail experience’ store in July 2023 - MCV/DEVELOP
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Aldora market forecast 2025: Game Industry is slowly moving upward
PreMortem.Games
AUGUST 26, 2024
growth), while PC gaming shows the strongest growth at 4.2%, reaching $31.4 However, this downturn is partially offset by the resilience in the gaming PC and laptop market. Mobile gaming continues to dominate this category, accounting for $109.6 billion (3.6% growth), and is forecasted to reach $115.7 billion (3.1%
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Starfield debuts at No.1 | UK Boxed Charts
GamesIndustry.biz
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
GfK's report showed that the space-action RPG sold more physical copies on Xbox than it did on PC. Starfield has topped the UK physical charts this week. Starfield's premium upgrade (a box with a code that provided early access to the digital version) has fallen to No.34 34 after debuting at No.7 7 last week.
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Dark and Darker coming to Epic Games Store following injunction dismissal
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 19, 2024
As reported by PC Gamer , the developer announced the move on its Discord server. A year after being removed from Steam, Ironmace's Dark and Darker will be available on the Epic Games Store. The game is currently in early access, with no release date as of yet.
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Epic Games Store woos third party support
Game Daily
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Since its launch in 2018, Epic Games Store has spent bucket loads of money on giving away free games, in order to attract PC gamers away from Steam. In 2022, the retail store front hit 68 million monthly active users and a peak daily active user base of 34 million. Success has been hard to come by.
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Epic Games incentivizes developers to release older titles on its digital store
GamesIndustry.biz
OCTOBER 16, 2023
The program is eligible for products launched on third-party PC or subscription services before October 31, 2023. Read more
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I don’t know if this is confidential or “too technical” for the blog, but how does developing for consoles actually work? As in, what is the workflow like? Obviously, you do all the coding on a PC, but how does the build get tested on consoles? How do you debug on consoles? It would be awesome if you could do a little rundown, but I understand if it’s not possible.
Ask a Game Dev
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
It has beefier hardware than the retail console (because it needs to be able to hold and run debug builds of the game). Neither of these can play retail games, they only play development builds. A console dev kit is a lot like a networked computer fused with a game console.
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The Play Pendulum • A theory of innovation cycles in interactive entertainment
PreMortem.Games
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
Nintendo also revolutionized distribution by offering innovative terms to retailers, allowing stores to stock games without upfront payment and only charging for units sold. Steam revolutionized game distribution by offering a 70/30 revenue split and eliminating the need for costly console certification or physical retail processes.
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Puzzle Strike on Steam
Sirlin
DECEMBER 21, 2015
The new Steam version of Puzzle Strike (as well as the upcoming iOS release) have these new features: Runs natively on Mac, PC, and Linux (new!) Launching with English and French language support, with German and Japanese localization on the way The Steam version of Puzzle Strike will retail for $14.99
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iXie’s approach to achieving 100% first-submission pass on all platforms
iXie gaming
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
These tools help perform tests more efficiently and help find issues that would otherwise be impossible in a retail environment. On platforms like PC and mobile, extensive testing is conducted on various devices to ensure smooth performance and compatibility between different configurations.
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The Economics of a 2D Adventure Today
Grumpy Gamer
OCTOBER 18, 2004
Starting a company that will self-publish the game into retail channels is a huge undertaking and would require some significant capital. It's also hard to become a retail based publisher with a single game. You need several games to have any clout with the retailers. 8) It's a PC game. Retail Distribution.
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Summer Game Fest already feels like an anachronism
Game Daily
JUNE 9, 2023
Long before its demise, E3 was an anachronism; a show for retail buyers, in an industry that had moved way beyond its bricks and mortar past.
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How Flying Sheep raised funds to make its ‘frictionless’ Web3 game Star Life
Game Daily
APRIL 20, 2023
Now owned by Australian company iCandy, Flying Sheep has turned towards a Web3 model for its next project, Star Life. “While our games were web2 focused, we had been following the development of the NFT market,” says Rössig, who also serves as iCandy’s head of Europe. ” Flying Sheep was acquired by iCandy June 2022.
Industry Voices: Social mobility and the games industry: how an industry worth £4.6 billion is failing its talent
Game Development News
JUNE 12, 2023
Dan Ahern, QA lead at Radical Forge talks about social mobility in the games industry - MCV/DEVELOP
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Regional Spotlight: Hamburg
Game Development News
AUGUST 18, 2023
What’s it like to make games in Europe’s biggest non-capital city in Europe’s largest games market? Richie Shoemaker quizzed three local studios in the hope of finding out
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Congratulations to the 2023 MCV/DEVELOP Award winners!
Game Development News
MAY 12, 2023
After weeks of deliberation and thousands of votes, 500 of the UK game industry's brightest and best came together to honour the winners of the 25th anniversary MCV/DEVELOP Awards
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Istanbul Gaming Summit 2023
Deconstructor of Fun
MARCH 14, 2023
Apple has really screwed us over in a really big way and everyone is responding. Things are going to get worse before they get better.” But ultimately ended on a more positive note: “This is an opportunity for you guys to figure out how best to market new games in this market, to take all these challenges that we see and come up with something new.
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UK games industry recruitment agency OPM has closed after 26 years
Game Development News
JANUARY 23, 2024
One Player Mission (OPM, formerly OPMJobs and OPM Response) has announced its decision to close down after 26 years of providing recruitment services to the UK games industry
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[From the industry] Here are the winners of the TIGA Awards 2024!
Game Development News
DECEMBER 10, 2024
This is a press release posted in addition to our usual editorial content. The 2024 TIGA Games Industry Awards have once again showcased the extraordinary creativity, innovation, and talent within the sector, which gathered at the historic Shoreditch Town Hall for a gala dinner and presentation ceremony on the evening of Thursday November 28th.
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When We Made… Zool: Redimensioned
Game Development News
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Jacob Habgood, Owen Lyons, and Ntokozo Tshuma, three of the team on Zool Redimensioned at Sumo Digital, talked to Vince Pavey about what it was like bringing the ninja from another dimension back for a brand-new generation of hardware
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Q&A: The games industry looks back on gamescom 2023
Game Development News
OCTOBER 10, 2023
There were 320,000 people at this year’s gamescom. We pulled aside five of them to see what they thought of it - MCV/DEVELOP
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The final speaker and sponsor line-up is now available for Games Growth Summit North
Game Development News
OCTOBER 19, 2023
The Manchester edition of the Games Growth Summit North is taking place in November - MCV/DEVELOP
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Dynablasts from the Past: Stephan Berendsen on Dynablaster, Shark! Shark! and Astrosmash, and what’s next for BBG Entertainment
Game Development News
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Stephan Berendsen, president and founder of BBG Entertainment tells writer Vince Pavey about BBG Entertainment’s work to revive classic titles with brand new entries
The shortlist has been revealed for the TIGA Game Industry Awards 2023
Game Development News
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
This year’s shortlist for the TIGA Awards has been announced - MCV/DEVELOP
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Xsolla Enhances Game Developer Experience with Web Shop Innovations, Parental Controls, and Localised Payments
Game Development News
OCTOBER 24, 2024
Xsolla Expands Its Offerings to Support Developers with Advanced Web Shop Features, Robust Parental Control Solutions, and New Payment Options in Cambodia and Indonesia. …
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