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Splatoon 3 has taken the first ever #1 spot for the franchise during its launch week according to boxed physical data reports from GfK
Read More »Splatoon 3 covers path in ink on the way to first ever franchise #1 in UK Boxed Charts
Roblox announces changes to its platform at RDC 2022
Roblox hosted the annual Roblox Developer Conference over the weekend in San Francisco, and announced several changes that are coming to the game-turned-metaverse in the near future
Read More »Crystal Dynamics and Eidos Montreal now own their IPs again, as they become a part of the Embracer Group
Crystal Dynamics and Eidos Montreal now own the rights to classic game series like Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, Thief and Legacy of Kain
Read More »Sony head Jim Ryan has called the Xbox offer to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation ‘inadequate’
PlayStation head Jim Ryan has responded negatively to Xbox head Phil Spencer’s assertion that Microsoft and Xbox would commit to keeping the Call of Duty series on PlayStation for “several more years”
Read More »Tencent has bought shares in Guillemot Brothers Limited, and now owns more of Ubisoft
Ubisoft has announced a new partnership between Guillemot Brothers Limited, which will see the Chinese tech corporation invest £259 million in the company
Read More »Chucklefish is giving every employee a £4000 raise to help with the cost of living crisis
Chucklefish, the British developer behind games like Wargroove, Starbound, and Witchbrook, is giving its employees £4000 across the company to help them to deal with the cost of living crisis in the UK
Read More »The Last of Us Part 1 endures and survives at #1 in UK Boxed Charts
The Last of Us Part 1 sold better than any other game in UK shops last week, according to boxed physical data reports from GfK
Read More »Microsoft has announced a Game Pass Friends & Family plan
Microsoft have officially announced the Xbox Game Pass Friends & Family plan, a way for groups of up to five people to share Game Pass Ultimate benefits
Read More »PQube responds to claims that the UK publisher is not appropriately paying its developer partners
UK publisher PQube has had another development team come forward to state that their working relationship has broken down due to issues with funding
Read More »UK regulator to further investigate Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard purchase
The Competition and Markets Authority in the UK has decided that Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard requires further examination in a "phase 2" investigation
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