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Blizzard has announced plans to give players over 65 free cards upon the release of next week’s expansion Whispers of the Old Gods. All players will get three free packs for simply logging on following the expansion’s release. The developer has now revealed that a further five packs will be …
Read More »Fnatic and Cloud9 create League of Legends Challenger teams
Both Fnatic and Cloud9 have created new League of Legends teams to compete in the Challenger Division. Cloud9 have announced that its new challenger squad will be lead by Hai Lam, former captain of the organisation’s LCS team, along with coach Daerek LemonNation” Hart. The team currently has a roster …
Read More »Kaplan: Blizzard failed horrifically with scrapped MMO Titan
Blizzard designer Jeff Kaplan has revealed how the cancellation of MMO Titan has provided huge motivation for the studio. Titan was abandoned in 2014 after seven years in development. CEO Mike Morhaime said simply that the team weren’t able to find the fun” in the title. "You had a really …
Read More »Xbox One unit sales are up as Xbox Live usage climbs
Microsoft is pretty coy about the sales performance of the Xbox One nowadays, but it looks as if the console has grown sales year-on-year. Xbox One hardware unit sales were up year-on-year for the nine months ending March 31st 2016, although hardware revenues were down 26 per cent – a …
Read More »From Software is investigating alleged unfair Dark Souls 3 bans
A number of players claim to have been wrongly banned from the online component of Dark Souls 3. From Software has since the days of the original Dark Souls struggled with policing the series’ community. Historically players who are deemed to have cheated in any way are pooled off into …
Read More »Women In Games Awards: Meet The Finalists – Creative Impact category
There are just four weeks to go until we celebrate the Top 30 Women in Games and the winners of the six special categories are announced. The Women in Games Awards take place on May 19th at the Hamyard Hotel, London. Tickets cost just 49 and are available by simply …
Read More »AMD again hints at three upcoming new console launches
PS4 Neo? Check. Nintendo NX? Check. Xbox Two? Maybe. Chip manufacturer AMD has dropped the second hint in as many weeks that all three platform holders are very much gearing up for new hardware launches. Ars Technica reports that in an earnings call the company cited three semi-custom system-on-chip (SOC) …
Read More »Fred Prego on GAMEFest and its showdown with EGX
Last week, Gamer Network CEO Rupert Loman declared his disappointment in GAME. He was referring to the retailer’s new GAMEFest event, a consumer expo that will take place four weeks before his own EGX show… and at the same venue (Birmingham NEC). Upon making some allusions to the fact the …
Read More »Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst pushed to June
EA’s first-person parkour title Mirror’s Edge Catalyst is being moved out of its May release window. This delay was announced via a blog post on the game’s official website from design director Erik Odeldahl. The title is being pushed back two weeks from May 26th to June 9th in Europe. …
Read More »Shuhei Yoshida isn’t sure if there will be a PS5
Oddworld Inhabitants’ co-founder Lorne Lanning has said that Sony Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida told him that a PS5 is in no way certain? The reason? That consoles need to embrace a more iterative hardware update model, which all signs suggest will kick off with the PS4 Neo. Yes,” Lanning told …
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