UK spending on video games plummeted by 29.4 percent during the first half of this year, while music and video sales grew. Physical game sales fell by 40 percent to £111.7m compared to the first six months of 2023, while digital download sales fell 23 percent to £236.9m. The numbers, reported by the Digital Entertainment and Retail Association (ERA), reflect a "soft new release schedule", according to its latest report.... Read more ›
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Sales of Resident Evil 7 on iOS have flopped, having been bought by under 2000 people. That's according to store data estimates from Appmagic, as shared by MobileGamer.biz. The free-to-start game has been downloaded 83,000 times since its release on 2nd July, meaning just 2.4 percent of players converted to the £15.99 paid version. In all, Resident Evil 7 on iOS has earned Capcom an estimated $28,140, though that doesn't... Read more ›
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A Microsoft team leader has emailed thousands of staff to protest the closure of a major internal group focused on promoting diversity, equity and inclusion within the company. The outgoing staff member blasted Microsoft's decision to cut their team amid a wider cooling in the corporate space to the need for diversity groups generally. A quote from the email first published by Business Insider claims that the team had been... Read more ›
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Rockstar's GTA+ subscription service could soon expand to include access to Switch versions of the company's games if a now-reverted recent update to its website is anything to go by. GTA+, which is currently only available through Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5, offers subscribers access to various GTA Online items and a "rotating assortment" of Rockstar Games - including Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy, Red Dead Redemption, and LA... Read more ›
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With the closure of Microsoft's Xbox 360 digital store looming, the company has announced a final batch of heavy discounts on earlier-gen titles, as well as the release of a new Xbox Series X/S dynamic background, inspired by the Xbox 360's much-loved "blades" dashboard design. Microsoft announced the impending closure of its Xbox 360 digital store last August, revealing it would no longer be possible to purchase games, DLC, or... Read more ›
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Supermassive Games' narrative-focused single-player Dead by Daylight spin-off, The Casting of Frank Stone, launches for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on 3rd September. Announced last December, The Casting of Frank Stone's story begins in Cedar Hills, Oregon, in the summer of 1980, when a group of young filmmakers travels to an abandoned steel mill in order to shoot their horror movie, Murder Mill. Unbeknown to the teenagers, however,... Read more ›
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Xbox has revealed a whole flock of games arriving on Game Pass this month on day one of release. That includes Capcom's Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess, Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn, and Dungeons of Hinterberg, as well as todays' release of Flock. These join the likes of Journey to the Savage Planet, The Case of the Golden Idol, and Neon White that arrived earlier this month. Read more Read more ›
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Trials of Mana is among five games leaving PlayStation Plus in August, ahead of the release of forthcoming series addition Visions of Mana. Five games are now in the 'Last chance to play' collection on Sony's PlayStation Plus catalogue: NBA 2K24 Kobe Bryant Edition, Need for Speed Unbound, SpellForce 3 Reforced, Destroy All Humans! 2 - Reprobed, and Trials of Mana. All five will leave the service on 20th August.... Read more ›
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 publisher Activision has made it clear that you cannot simply toggle off its upcoming game's much-hyped new "omnimovement" feature, which lets you sprint and dive in any direction. Speaking via the official Call of Duty podcast, Activision confirmed omnimovement was a permanent mechanic in the game and a "global system" across all of its modes - campaign, multiplayer and zombies. And no, there's no... Read more ›
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Dawntrail teases a swashbuckling adventure with newcomer Wuk Lamat, a Hrothgal on a quest to inherit the throne and become Dawnservant in Tural's Rite of Succession. You're on the precipice of something fresh and exciting, as you hop off the ship full of beans and raring to go. The first major city, Tuliyollal, gets the blood pumping with bombastic, big band music - kicking the bar high for the expansion's... Read more ›
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Larian has detailed what Baldur's Gate 3 players can expect from the seventh patch, due out in September. As previously reported, the patch will include mod support and, in a new post on Steam, the studio has given a brief look at what some creators have achieved in the Closed Alpha. But there are other additions coming too, including a much-needed tweak to split-screen play - dynamic split-screen mode -... Read more ›
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Cowabunga, friends! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate releases on Nintendo Switch tomorrow and, as turtle-fans from an early age, Jim Trinca and I will be taking an early look at the game in two player co-op for today's live stream.Splintered Fate has actually been available on the Apple Arcade for over a year now. It's recieved a lot of positive reviews on that platform with many of them likening... Read more ›
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Modders have been hard at work since the release of Elden Ring DLC Shadow of the Erdtree, releasing plenty of mods to make it a little easier to complete. That's certainly true of this mod from FlippantTunic22 over on Nexus Mods, which replaces certain Spirit Ash summons with bosses from the DLC. So far 11 bosses have been included. I won't list them all for spoiler reasons, but it does... Read more ›
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Two months before its official launch date, footage from a fully-playable version of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is being uploaded to YouTube. The videos reportedly come from a pre-release developer build of the game, which fans on reddit say is now circulating on a popular torrent website. Several of these videos have already been pulled from YouTube by Saber Interactive copyright claims, but yet more are being uploaded. Worse,... Read more ›
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Former Speaker of the House John Bercow voices a character in the forthcoming Fallout: London mod. Bercow was Speaker of the House in the UK Parliament, known for yelling "Order!" at rowdy MPs during his tenure. More recently, you may have spotted him in second season of The Traitors US. Next he'll make an appearance in Fallout: London as, fittingly, a robot Speaker of the House. His inclusion means he... Read more ›
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I really do love Shadow of the Erdtree. I love its varied, spectacular environments. I love how its dungeons are more convincingly integrated into the world design, the map as a whole a puzzle to solve. I love the visual style, how emerging into each area is framed like a renaissance painting of a post-battle autumnal dreamscape. But I have to admit, the Elden Ring DLC has a problem with... Read more ›
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With Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's October launch on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC inching ever-closer, Activision Blizzard has announced a fresh set of dates for players' diaries, confirming it'll be hosting a multiplayer open beta this September, with those eligible for early access (which includes Game Pass subcribers) able to hop in one week prior. Black Ops 6's multiplayer open beta - that is, the actually open beta, accessible... Read more ›
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Journey developer ThatGameCompany has revealed Tove Jansson's beloved Moomins are heading to its acclaimed free-to-play "social adventure" Sky: Children of the Light this autumn. Plus, there's a first look at the game's upcoming animated series ahead of its release next year. Sky: Children of the Light, which initially launched for iOS back in 2019 before expanding to PC and consoles, is a sort of leisurely puzzle-adventure set among the different... Read more ›
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As Fallout 4's massive Fallout: London mod nears its release, distributor GOG has moved to clear up some compatibility questions. The company has confirmed Fallout: London will work with versions of Fallout 4 bought on GOG and Steam, but not those purchased on the Epic Games Store, as the latter doesn't currently support a key feature needed to get it running. If you're not up to date on its progress,... Read more ›
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Down in central Brighton, where the city meets the sea, and resting under the latticed shadow of a burned-out hotel, there's a traffic crossing where someone has stuck a set of plastic googly eyes on one of the green men. I don't know how long these things last, but if you're around in the next few days you can probably still see it. I noticed it because I was out... Read more ›
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