Wholesale Games Industry and Market News

Microsoft has announced that the upcoming Xbox One Elite bundle will be shipped with a high-budget controller and solid state hybrid disc drive.

Rumors suggest that Apple will be positioning their next Apple TV as a living room gaming device, potentially to compete with the Playstation and Xbox consoles.

EA has announced that a beta for the upcoming multiplayer title Star Wars Battlefront will be launched in early October 2015.

The 33rd Golden Joystick Awards, one of the UK’s biggest gaming award ceremonies, is almost upon us. Voting for the games nominated for awards has now opened.

Week of 14/09/2015:
1. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain – Konami
2. Mad Max – Warner Bros. Interactive
3. Super Mario Maker – Nintendo

Nintendo have opened a section on the online retailer Amazon’s website for gamers in the USA to purchase Wii U, Wii and 3DS titles in digital format.

Week of 07/09/2015:
1. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain – Konami
2. Gears Of War: Ultimate Edition – Microsoft
3. Mad Max – Warner Bros. Interactive

A recent Tweet by Xbox’s Phil Spencer suggests that games from the original Xbox console might be coming to Xbox One’s backwards compatibility feature.

Shigeru Miyamoto has recently said Nintendo might soon be thinking about licensing film versions of their games.

Nvidia, producers of a range of PC graphical processing units, have announced that a game streaming feature similar to the PS4’s Share Play will be coming to owners of…