Wholesale Games Industry and Market News

Developers from Hanger 13 recently spoke about their approach to doing the mob game genre, discussing the style, tone and atmosphere of the upcoming Mafia 3.

Week ending on 23/04/2016:
1. Ratchet & Clank – Sony
2. Dark Souls III – Bandai Namco
3. Star Wars Battlefront – EA

The end of an era is upon the gaming world, as Microsoft announces that their wildly successful Xbox 360 console is to be discontinued.

The mastermind of Bioshock is setting his sights onto other forms of entertainment media, as he announced that he is currently working on an interactive film.

GameStop, one of the USA’s biggest brick and mortar games retailers, has branched out away from selling games by opening a brand new publishing division.

Rod Fergusson, studio head of The Coalition spoke about the trade-off between visual quality and gameplay responsiveness in the series’ latest outing.

Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of many of Nintendo’s world famous most-loved franchises, recently spoke about the twentieth anniversary of the Pokémon series.

Week ending on 16/04/2016:
1. Dark Souls III – Bandai Namco
2. Tom Clancy’s The Division – Ubisoft
3. UFC 2 – EA

The development of Rockstar’s Wild Western version of GTA, Red Dead Redemption, was fraught with issues and problems, and was referred to as a ‘nightmare’ by leading Rockstar executives….

Following on from the recent release of the third game in the series, Dark Souls is set to make an entrance into the world of tabletop board games.