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EA has revealed that more than 9 million gamers tried the beta for the upcoming Star Wars Battlefront. Taking to EA’s Star Wars blog, senior producer Sigurlina Ingvarsdottir announced the impressive figures, which represent a record for the single largest beta in EA’s history. The beta was announced in April. …
Read More »Back to the Future’s DeLorean racing into Rocket League
Rocket League’s next DLC will be of the licensed variety. Developer Psyonix has detailed the upcoming Back to the Future Car Pack. It appears, however, that the ‘pack’ contains just one item – although what an item it is: the flying DeLorean time machine. Furthermore, the car will be released …
Read More »Gfinity blows away targets with 58m viewers in 2015
British eSports organiser Gfinity has recorded 58.5m online views of their 2015 Championship Series, exceeding first year targets of 50m. The Gfinity Series, comprised of 23 weekly tournaments since March, was played across five eSports titles at the company’s dedicated eSports Arena in Fulham, London. September’s series finale, held at …
Read More »Bloodborne Game of the Year Edition announced
Sony has revealed that a Game of the Year edition of From Software’s Bloodborne will be released on PS4 before Christmas. The SKU will include the game’s upcoming DLC, The Old Hunters, which will explore the nightmare of the hunters who once guarded Byrgenwerth. It’s set in what is described …
Read More »NewBay names new European management team
NewBay Media has named four new senior directors to its reorganised European team. Andrew Wooden has been appointed Interactive Entertainment Content Director, managing the editorial for MCV, Develop, Toy News, PCR and more. Wooden is a former staff writer on MCV, and has worked on Future’s T3 publication. He was …
Read More »Star Wars Battlefront gets a £40 Season Pass
It’s going to cost in the region of 90 to see everything that Star Wars battlefront has to offer at launch. The base game for Star Wars: Battlefront costs in the region of 40-60 depending on the format and the retailer. On Origin for PC, for instance, it costs 50. …
Read More »The Hearthstone World Championship’s finalist roster is complete
The 16 players who will feature in the Hearthstone World Championship finals have now been decided. Yesterday’s American regional finals in San Francisco saw Justin ‘JAB’ Black, Dylan ‘Hotform’ Mullins, Victor ‘Nias’ Shelstad and overall winner Ryan ‘Purple’ Murphy-Root (who won $10k in the process) claim the four available spots. …
Read More »Indie darling Firewatch headed to PC and PS4 next February
Much-anticipated indie adventure title Firewatch has had a release period pencilled. In development for nearly two years, Firewatch is the first effort from studio Campo Santo. Despite this, the team behind is the game comprises veterans from across the games industry – and beyond. Mark of the Ninja lead designer …
Read More »Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 does away with ‘archaic’ campaign level lock
Fancy skipping straight to the last level of Black Ops 3’s campaign? That’s not going to be a problem. The game’s director of campaign and Zombies mode Jason Blundell has told Eurogamer that the title’s entire campaign will be accessible from the start. "It gives them the flexibility to consume …
Read More »‘Overly ambitious’ expansion leads Humble Bundle to cut a fifth of staff
Digital retailer Humble Bundle has been forced to let 12 of its staff members go, after the firm’s CEO admitted it had attempted to grow too quickly. Polygon, citing an anonymous source, reported that the job losses took place across the entire company last week, and accounted for around 20 …
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