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November 6th, 2018, 18:31 Posted By: wraggster
Capcom has alluded to its future plans for cloud-based games, suggesting the Resident Evil 7 experiment has been a success - although not a financial one.
In a Q&A released following the Japanese firm's results for the first half of the fiscal year, the publisher was asked by shareholders about its stance on cloud gaming.
Earlier this year, Capcom released Resident Evil 7: Cloud Version - a streamed version of the hit horror title for Nintendo Switch. In the Q&A, the firm reiterated this was an experiment, but it seems to have been a promising one.
"While we did release a certain title supporting cloud gaming in the first half, this was done primarily for technological research purposes and did not have a significant impact on earnings," the company wrote.
"Based on the results of the research, we will internally consider further expansion into cloud gaming."
The shareholders' question was no doubt prompted by increasing interest in cloud-based gaming products and services over the past six months. Most notably, Microsoft announced Project xCloud, a streaming service that delivers Xbox games to any device.
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November 5th, 2018, 20:58 Posted By: wraggster
VR pioneer Palmer Luckey has said that no currently announced VR hardware is good enough to appeal to mainstream - even at a price of "$0.00," the existing and imminent headsets would fail to engage a big enough audience.
In a blog post titled "Free isn't cheap enough," the founder of Oculus VR argued hardware sales as a "meaningless metric" for judging the success of VR. That can only be measured through engagement, Luckey said, which is "the number of people logging in and spending money each week."
"Recent market experiments with cheap VR hardware have shown that there are millions of people willing to buy said hardware, but very few among them continue to use the hardware or invest in the software ecosystem for very long," Luckey said, apparently referring to lower priced headsets like Oculus Go.
"This is true even when people get the hardware for free - the millions of cardboard boxes fulfilling their ultimate destiny on the back shelf of a closet don't do much for the VR industry. Why the lack of use?"
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November 5th, 2018, 20:31 Posted By: wraggster
Ubisoft has revealed today it will be making a number of cosmetic changes to Rainbow Six Siege as the game prepares for release in Asian territories. These changes will be made in all versions of the game for a "single, global vision" of the title as opposed to multiple builds.
The aesthetic changes include removal of skulls, references to gambling, sexual content, and environmental blood to conform with content regulations in certain countries. Some icons will be changed (such as the melee icon from a dagger to a fist) as well.
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November 5th, 2018, 20:30 Posted By: wraggster
Red Dead Redemption 2 retains the No.1 spot at UK physical games retail.
Sales fell 51% week-on-week, which is an impressive result for a AAA action game in its second week on the market. In fact, it is the most successful second week for a game recorded all year (all the more impressive when you consider that FIFA 19 had this year's biggest opening weekend).
The big new release in the charts this week is Football Manager 2019 from Sega. As a PC release, the game would have primarily sold digitally (it's No.1 in the Steam charts) but it was released physically as well, and debuts at No.9.
Just ahead of it at No.8 is the LEGO Harry Potter Collection. Although it's technically a re-entry (it was previously available on PS4), the game jumps 683% in sales on the back of its launch on Nintendo Switch and Xbox One. The game arrives just in time for the new Fantastic Beasts movie next week, so expect it to hang around.
It's one of four LEGO games in the charts - with LEGO DC Super-Villains at No.12, LEGO The Incredibles at No.24 and LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 at No.32.
Also receiving a bump in sales this week - driven by a new platform release - is Diablo III: Eternal Collection. The game's arrival on Switch this week sees the Blizzard game reach No.12.
One new game that didn't chart this week is Taiko No Tatusujin: Drum 'n' Fun on Nintendo Switch. Although it does debut at No.11 in the Switch charts. There was a version of the game that came with its own drum accessory.
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November 5th, 2018, 20:28 Posted By: wraggster
In a ringing endorsement of esports, the prime minister of Denmark opened the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Blast Pro Series tournament over the weekend.
Addressing the crowd of 12,000 fans at the sold-out Copenhagen Royal Arena -- and the countless viewers at home -- Lars Lřkke Rasmussen spoke highly of the esports industry and its professional players.
"You have been training for years and years to be where you are," said Rasmussen.
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October 29th, 2018, 17:52 Posted By: wraggster
Market analytics firm Digi-Capital revealed this week that games deals have already exceed a record $25 billion in the first nine months of 2018.
However, as Digi-Capital noted, this "could signal top of the market"; when this previously happened in 2014 games investment and M&A plunged immediately to the lowest level in a decade.
"The games deals cycle has swung from boom to bust twice already since 2010, so the next six months will determine if history repeats itself or the dollars continue to flow," said managing director Tim Merel.
While the latest report from Digi-Capital highlights the "unprecedented" level of investment witnessed in 2018, M&A have yet to reach the same heights of 2016, and the games IPO market has almost entirely evaporated.
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October 29th, 2018, 17:52 Posted By: wraggster
Worldwide digital spending on console reached $1.24 billion for September, up from $912 million the same month last year, according to the latest figures from SuperData.
The increase continues a "string of high-growth months going into the holiday season", driven by the popularity of Fortnite and a slew of AAA launches, such as FIFA 19 which was the best digital launch in franchise history.
SuperData estimates that FIFA 19 digital console units grew 18 per cent compared to FIFA 18, hitting another record despite lagging behind other AAA franchise in terms of download rates.
Marvel's Spider-Man was Sony' biggest digital launch to date, selling 2.17 million units on PlayStation 4 -- excluding bundled sales -- just edging out the God of War launch earlier this year.
Meanwhile, the Destiny 2 Forsaken expansion beat out Fortnite to take the number one digital console rankings spot, with over 60 per cent of all active users purchasing the expansion.
Finally, although NBA 2K19 enjoyed a new peak of digital console sales, overall growth fell short of the rate seen over the past couple of years.
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October 28th, 2018, 13:11 Posted By: wraggster
Video games media specialists Future will close two of its multiformat magazines.
GamesTM and GamesMaster are producing their final issues. Staff who worked on these publications are being 'redeployed' within the company.
GamesMaster has been running for 25 years and say it's 'the UK's biggest multiformat magazine'. GamesTM is also a multiformat product and has been running since 2002. It was originally owned by Imagine Publishing, but the entire Imagine portfolo was acquired by Future in 2016.
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October 28th, 2018, 12:38 Posted By: wraggster
Tomorrow, the biggest video game of 2018 finally arrives on shelves. And we mean that in various senses of the word, because from the sounds of it Red Dead Redemption 2 takes the open-world genre to new and wider frontiers.
Rockstar Games' first original title this generation is the follow-up to the acclaimed 2010 Wild West outing and critics agree that practically every aspects has been improved upon manifold - although some are quick to differentiate between this and the studio's flagship franchise.
"Anybody coming to Red Dead Redemption 2 expecting Grand Theft Auto with horses will be rather baffled by this slow-paced, sumptuous, character-driven Old West historical drama, in which you spend probably 60% of your time simply riding around the American wilderness," writes Keza MacDonald in her five-star review for The Guardian.
"There's action too, in the form of shootouts, train robberies and frequent thrilling escapes on horseback, but these flashes of excitement punctuate a game that is largely about just being somewhere; about hunting, fishing and having long conversations on cross-country rides or around a campfire."
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October 17th, 2018, 18:09 Posted By: wraggster
Skepticism about cryptocurrencies is spreading. In its latest whitepaper, "Can Bitcoin Bounce Back?", Juniper Research identifies a number of trends that have shown declining fortunes for cryptocurrencies in the last year, as well as factors that could make it difficult for the market to stage any kind of resurgence.
"In short, given our concerns around both the innate valuation of Bitcoin, and of the operating practices of many exchanges, we feel that the industry is on the brink of an implosion," the firm said.
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October 17th, 2018, 18:08 Posted By: wraggster
Rockstar Games and Take-Two have had a recent history of taking legal action against cheat makers for their games, especially Grand Theft Auto V. And last month, this action took the form of a search and asset seizure against the Australian developers of a particularly well-known cheat.
TorrentFreak reports that the court order, filed last month, is against five people who are believed to be connected to a notable GTA V cheat known as "Infamous." The five are to be prohibited from cheating or distributing cheating software, and have additionally had their assets (including digital and cryptocurrency) frozen.
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October 16th, 2018, 17:24 Posted By: wraggster
Today, Activision Blizzard has announced that its Call of Duty Endowment has reached his goal of supporting and funding the placement of 50,000 US and UK veterans into jobs a year ahead of its end-of-2019 deadline.
The Endowment's initial goal was to partner with existing veteran employment assistance organizations and fund these placements to reach 25,000 employed by the end of 2018. When that goal was met two years ahead of schedule, a new goal of 50,000 by the end of 2019 was set.
With that goal met as well, a new milestone has been set by the Endowment: 100,000 veterans placed by 2024.
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October 16th, 2018, 17:23 Posted By: wraggster
Epic Games is suing two YouTubers for endorsing and allegedly selling cheat for Fortnite in their videos.
A legal complaint filed with the North Carolina Federal Court by Epic has accused Brandon Lucas, also known as "Golden Modz", of "copyright infringement, breach of contract, and tortious interference" due to "injecting unauthorized cheat software ('cheats' or 'hacks') into the copyright protected code of [Fortnite]."
Lucas, who has more than 1.7 million subscribers on his YouTube channel, is the main defendant named in the case, but Epic has named Colton Conter, also known as "Excentric", as a second defendant.
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October 15th, 2018, 16:38 Posted By: wraggster
EA Sports' FIFA 19 continued to hold sway in the latest GSD EMEAA charts for the week ending October 7th. While the week saw the game's cover star Cristiano Rinaldo the subject of a re-opened rape investigation, any impact the bad press might have had on sales was not enough to prevent the game topping the charts for Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Australia during its second week on shelves.
As for Assassin's Creed Odyssey, the franchise's best launch of the generation was not enough to secure it the top spot, and Ubisoft's latest had to settle for second. Super Mario Party was the week's only other new release in the top 10, finishing in third place. Notable new releases that failed to crack the top of the charts included Sega's PS4-exclusive Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise, Capcom's Mega Man 11, and 2K's WWE 2K19.
A handful of titles also returned to the top 10, as Star Wars Battlefront II jumped 78 spots on the chart to land in 8th place for the week, while the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy jumped 10 spots up to 9th place.
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October 15th, 2018, 16:37 Posted By: wraggster
First weekend UK boxed sales of Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII are down almost 50% compared with last year's Call of Duty: WWII.
The sales are also down 59% compared with its direct predecessor, 2015's Black Ops III.
It's the weakest start for a boxed Call of Duty game since 2007's Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.
These figures only include physical units, so do not factor in sales of digital downloads - which have been increasing significantly in recent years. Indeed, Activision has since revealed that Black Ops IIII is its biggest digital day one launch ever, and that on day one 'the total number of people who connected online to play Black Ops 4 increased from last year's release'.
Even without digital, Black Ops IIII was still the second biggest boxed launch of the year (behind FIFA 19) and sold well enough to top the charts.
It's also the earliest launch for a Call of Duty for over two console generations - the game usually arrives in early or mid-November. Therefore there is still several weeks for the game to improve its performance.
58% of sales were on PS4, with 41% coming on Xbox One. The remainder was for the PC SKU.
Regardless, coupled with a 25% decline in boxed launch sales of FIFA 19, Q4 hasn't got off to a strong start for games retail.
There are still several big launches to come, with Battlefield V, Red Dead Redemption 2 and Fallout 76.
There was another new release this week in the form of WWE 2K18. The game debuts at No.3, but didn't fare much better than Call of Duty. Physical sales are down 37.5% year-on-year. 66% of sales came from the PS4 version, with the rest coming on Xbox One.
Last week's big games are forced to make way for the new releases. Assassin's Creed Odyssey drops 54% week-on-week and falls to No.3, whereas Forza Horizon 4 drops from No.3 to No.5 with a 67% sales drop week-on-week.
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October 15th, 2018, 16:34 Posted By: wraggster
One of the famous Houser brothers has offered insight into the making of Red Dead Redemption 2, and the work behind the title sounds intense.
The game has been in development for the best part of seven years, with Dan Houser talking to Rockstar San Diego about how a sequel to Red Dead Redemption might look as far back as early 2011, as revealed in an interview with Vulture.
A broad outline was completed the following summer, with rough scripts for the game's story and missions ready by autumn 2012. But it seems the workload has ramped up significantly this year as Red Dead Redemption 2 finally approaches release.
Dan Houser said that the team has been "working 100-hour weeks" several times in 2018, later adding that compared to previous Rockstar projects, "This was the hardest."
His brother Sam told the site earlier this year: "We've poured everything we have into [Red Dead Redemption 2]. We have really pushed ourselves as hard as we can."
The result is a game that Dan claims is 65 hours long (although five hours of content have actually been cut) and boast 300,000 animations, 500,000 lines of dialogue recorded by 700 voice actors, and even more lines of code.
The level of detail seen in the trailers, and the glowing previews, suggest this work has paid off but it brings to mind the Rockstar Spouse incident around the original Red Dead Redemption.
Back in 2010, just a few months before the game launched, an open letter allegedly written on behalf of the wives of Rockstar San Diego employees claimed the team was expected to work 60-hour weeks - 12-hour days, including Saturdays - or they would face disciplinary action.
Rockstar later attributed this to "people taking the opinions of a few anonymous posters on message boards as fact."
"We're saddened if any former members of any studio did not find their time here enjoyable or creatively fulfilling and wish them well with finding an environment more suitable to their temperaments and needs, but the vast majority of our company are focused solely on delivering cutting edge interactive entertainment," the studio said at the time.
"We've always cared passionately about the people working here, and have always tried to maintain a supportive creative environment. There is simply no way Rockstar could continue to produce such large scale, high quality games without this.
"That being said, making great games is very challenging, which is why we have and will continue to try to keep hold of some of the best talent in the industry and support them in every way we can."
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October 1st, 2018, 20:29 Posted By: wraggster
FIFA 19 is already the biggest UK video game of 2018, but its opening week physical sales have fallen sharply.
The game's week one sales are down 25% compared with FIFA 18's arrival one year ago.
Of course, these GfK figures only factor in physical games sold and does not include downloads. The numbers suggest that this year's FIFA either had a comparatively disappointing first week, or there has been a sharp acceleration in the movement from physical to digital. Or, perhaps more likely, a combination of both.
The PS4 version of FIFA 19 accounted for 64% of sales, with Xbox One accounting for 35% and the Switch version the remaining 1%. Sales of the games on legacy platforms (Xbox 360, PS3) were negligible.
The arrival of FIFA means that Spider-Man drops to No.2 for the week. Sony's game is now the second best-selling game of the year as it has overtaken Far Cry 5 in just four weeks. It's an impressive achievement for the PS4 title, as it is only available on one platform (admittedly, the UK's most popular console).
Also dropping a place due to FIFA is Shadow of the Tomb Raider, which falls from No.2 to No.3. Despite a disappointing first week, the game has had solid sales since, and suggests that the Square Enix title will still find a decent audience.
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September 20th, 2018, 21:40 Posted By: wraggster
Spider-Man is a hit. With more than 3.3 million copies sold in its first three days of sale, Insomniac Games' PlayStation 4 exclusive open-world action game is now the fastest-selling first-party PS4 game to date, Sony announced on Twitter today.
The previous holder of that title was God of War, which launched in April and racked up 3.1 million copies sold through downloaded copies and physical versions sold through to customers.
The game's sales success is not terribly surprising. Spider-Man launched September 7 to a wave of critical adulation, and UK retail numbers quickly pegged it as the fastest selling game of 2018 so far, and the fastest-selling Marvel-branded game in history. It also topped the GSD charts for Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Australia. In its second week, it held off challenges from new releases Shadow of the Tomb Raider and NBA 2K19 to retain the top spot on the UK retail charts.
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September 20th, 2018, 21:39 Posted By: wraggster
The BBC's history with the video games industry is long, and not especially successful.
It began making its own games in 1983, primarily for BBC Micro (the first Doctor Who game was printed on the front of an early edition of Computer & Video Games magazine). It scrapped that in favour of licensing out its IP from 1986, and then come 1995 decided to get back into games properly with the launch of BBC Multimedia - creating software based around the likes of Robot Wars and Teletubbies.
A decline in sales saw that department shut in 2006 and a return to licensing, before the BBC decided to recommit to games once again and set up a dedicated office in Los Angeles in 2010.
That office was responsible for a number of projects including Supermassive Games' ill-fated Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock, a number of Wonderbook products for PS3, plus a series of mobile apps and online titles. But success was mixed, and by the end of 2013 the BBC moved games back to the UK and focused once again on licensing.
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