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Valve has finally started offering the ability for consumers to purchase digital Steam Gift Cards. To do so, the sender must have a Steam account of their own – something that could actually be fairly limiting, as lots of mums and dads and especially grans and grandads may not have …

After a healthy break last year to ‘re-examine’ the Assassin’s Creed franchise, Ubisoft is back with a new entry, developed by the team behind 2013’s critically-acclaimed Black Flag. Origins, which is hitting shelves tomorrow (October 27th), was confirmed at E3 after its setting leaked all the way back in January 2016.  …

The strong debut of the Ryzen CPU range has helped AMD post one of its strongest financial performances in some time. Revenues climbed by 26 per cent in its last reported quarter to $1.64bn, while net income hit $71m – compared to a $400+m loss posted the year before. The …

The initially successfully but eventually resented motion camera Kinect is no longer in production. Fast Company was first out of the gate with the news yesterday, and the report has now been confirmed by Microsoft. “Manufacturing for Kinect for Xbox One has ended but it is not the end of …

Both the Xbox 360 and Xbox One camera will no longer be produced but its sensor tech will be in Hololens

Dimension features a state of the art capture setup with the purpose of creating immersive MR imagery

QYOU Media has announced a new, daily, show of curated esports content entitled ‘Heads Up Daily’ which will be airing on Super Channel’s GINX Esports TV Canada. QYOU are best known as a curator of daily “Best-of-the-web” video for multiscreen distribution, and Heads up Daily will see a QYOU host …

DC-themed brawler Injustice 2 will today hit Steam in the form of an open beta. The game has until now been exclusive to consoles, but at some stage on October 25th will arrive on PC in beta. The port is being handled by QLOC, which previously handled PC duties for …

Konami’s first post-Kojima Meta Gear release with be with us on February 22nd. Metal Gear Survive – or Metal Gear Zombies, as it is frequently referred to – is set in an alternative reality to Metal Gear Solid V. It features cooperative multiplayer and lots of undead. It’s heading to …

Ratchet & Clank developer Insomniac games has said that it remains interested in the possibility of making a sequel to 2014 Xbox One title Sunset Overdrive. As spotted by Destructoid, the studio responded to a question about making a possible sequel on Twitter by saying: “We’d love to, we just …