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Warner Bros’ Middle-earth: Shadow of War’s first weekend figures came out this morning and it looks to be down on what the company was hoping for the title. It’s still one of the better-selling titles of the year – in the top ten of 2017’s various Week One openings – but we …

Wargaming has opened a new mobile development studio in Moscow, the company has announced. Headed up by industry veteran Andrey Zimenko (pictured below), the studio will start developing "mid-core" titles for mobile platforms as soon as it has finished the hiring process for its new team.  Zimenko, who has 13 years …

Media giant IGN has acquired the pay-what-you-want game bundle service Humble Bundle, the companies have announced. Exact terms of the surprising deal haven’t been disclosed, but Humble Bundle has said it will now have "more resources and help from IGN" going forward. Otherwise, it’s still very much business as usual, …

Xbox console exclusive Cuphead has sold over a million copies in just two weeks, Studio MDHR has announced. Released on September 29th for Xbox One, Windows 10 and Steam, the 30s animation-style run and gun title received rave reviews from both critics and fans alike, and had been much hyped …

Wargaming Moscow to be headed up by former Mail.Ru studio head Andrey Zimenko

FIFA 18 has now been the top of the UK weekly physical charts for the third consecutive week. Sales for EA’s title were down 55 per cent week-on-week but that was not enough for Warner Bros’ Middle-earth: Shadow of War to overtake the football behemoth and take the top spot. …

The developer addresses tweets from a former employee made public over the weekend

The Esports Integrity Coalition (ESIC) and SportRadar have issued a joint statement revealed that Leonid ‘Sonic’ Kuzmenkov and Dmitri ‘Ax.Mo’ Morozov, players for Dota 2 team Dx, have been banned for two years for matchfixing. The players have been banned from future Uprise Champions Cup tournaments following an investigation by Sportradar …

Curve Digital released indie roguelike The Flame in the Flood on the Nintendo Switch yesterday, and the game has already "smashed" expectations, according to publishing director Simon Byron, beating Day One sales for all other platforms it’s been released on. Byron also added on Twitter (see below) that the success of The …

This week, Facebook confirmed that the Oculus Go, a new, standalone VR headset, was on its way in early 2018. Priced at $199, the social giant said its low price should make VR more accessible than ever before. However, while analysts MCV spoke to were generally in agreement that Oculus Go …