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A port of Activision’s Deadpool game is heading to PS4 and Xbox One, GameStop has revealed. In a post onTwitter, the US retailer announced pre-orders are now open for a current-gen console release of the 2013 licensed action title. Activision gave Prototype 2the same treatmentearlier this year, bringing the multi-platform …
Read More »Dragon Quest Builders launches in Japan this January
The Dragon Quest franchise’s take on Minecraft will launch this January, Square Enix has announced. Dragon Quest Builders will arrive in Japan on January 28thfor PS3, PS4 and Vita, Square revealed at Sony’s Tokyo Game Show press conference. The publisher has yet to confirm if the game will receive a …
Read More »Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness, Everybody’s Golf and Danganronpa 3 all PlayStation bound
Among the news to emerge from Sony’s pre-TGS press briefing yesterday was confirmation of three new games heading to PlayStation. Square Enix’s Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness, the fifth release in the series, will be released on PS4 and PS3 on February 25th. You can see its latest trailer below. …
Read More »Minecraft: Story Mode has been dated in the UK
Telltale has dated both the physical and retail releases of Minecraft: Story Mode. MCV had been told that the game would be released both digitally and on disc at the same time. This doesn’t appear to be the case, however. The first episode of the episodic series will arrive on …
Read More »You can take part in the first census of the UK games industry since 2012
The first examination of the UK games business in three years is now underway – and you can help. The 2015 Employment Census of the Creative Media Industries is being conducted by Creative Skillset in an effort to examine the makeup of the British industry and help companies and the …
Read More »Mind Sports South Africa to grow eSports at schools
The local body behind competitive gaming,Mind Sports South Africa(MSSA) has said in a statement that in order for South Africa to truly compete at an international level in eSports, more must be done at a school level. The MSSA believes that in order for eSports teams to become successful, a …
Read More »CS:GO’s week of tournament disasters are a cautionary tale
Having recovered from the heady heights of the second Major of the year, CS:GO tournament organisers have run into a week of reminders that not all events go swimmingly. Trouble began brewing at the start of the week as Slovenian tournament Gaming Paradise failed to begin on schedule as PCs …
Read More »Rocket League film and TV series being discussed
A movie or TV series based on Psyonix’s car football title Rocket League could well be on the way. The firm’s VP of marketing and communications Jeremy Dunham told MCV that Psyonix has been approached by a number of companies and individuals to discuss the possibility of there being a …
Read More »Now PS4 gets a Chinese price cut
Sony has followed news of a price cut for PS4 in Japan by announcing that the machine’s Chinese price is also being reduced. Analyst Serkan Toto spotted a Chinese language press release confirming that the machine will October 1st drop from CNY 2,800 (284) to CNY 2,399 (244). That’s a …
Read More »Nolan North working on ‘big, big project’ for Warner
The voice of an actually quite obscene number of video game’s most iconic characters has teased a big project on the way from Warner Bros. As per a recent spotlight feature on Grantland: Lastly, he’ll visit Warner Bros for a video game, another ‘big, big project’ that he can’t talk …
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