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Final Fantasy XV has now sold over 6.5m units, according to the game’s director Hajime Tabata. Tabata revealed the figure during an interview with Gamespot over PAX 2017. "From a business standpoint, we’ve achieved over 6.5m units," he said. "The fact that we’re still going to be putting out content …

Nintendo spent the most amount of money on US gaming industry TV ad spend in August, according to new figures from real-time TV ad measurement company iSpot.tv (via GamesBeat), spending an estimated $4.5m. The platform holder aired 14 adverts over 1,600 times, collecting around 230.6m impressions. The biggest ad was …

Story from Nintendo Everything reveals that the game is in the Switch Firmware with Joy-Con Support.

Formula One as a sport has evolved tremendously over the last four years. Coincidentally, so has video games development. Sean Cleaver sat down with F1 2017's creative director Lee Mather, to discuss how Codemasters have coped with changes in this generation and the process behind improving the Forumla One game franchise

Destiny 2’s Week One figures may not have reached the same heights as its predecessor when it launched last week, but it’s still the biggest UK launch of the year so far – a feat it’s now managed to mirror on a worldwide scale, publisher Activision Blizzard has announced, delivering …

Destiny 2 has gone straight in at No.1 in the Japanese weekly chart, according to the latest data from Famitsu. The week ending September 10th was light on new releases, Famitsu notes, but Activision’s shooter (published by Sony in Japan) managed to shift 51,629 units in its first five days …

Total video game spending in the US fell two per cent year-on-year to $568m this August, following declines in both hardware and software spending, according to the latest data from NPD. On the hardware front, spending growth generated by the Switch (which remained the best-selling piece of hardware last month) …

Team YP, the esports outfit run and sponsored by adult entertainment site YouPorn, has disbanded. The news comes from Clément ‘Quoizamama’ Dubois, who tweeted the news to his personal Twitter account. The team’s roster includes Valentine ‘Valmaster’ Petit, Dubois, Gregory ‘XEWER’ Boye, Enzo ‘Zenko’ Perri, Ivan ‘Osnazeni’ Markeljic  and Huge …

London start-up Conspexit Games Studio has teamed up with developer Kuju on a new augmented reality game. Using Conspexit’s proprietary tech, the duo hope to push the boundaries of the AR sector by not only challenging players’ overall skill level, but also provide an opportunity for them to "participate in …

Wired Productions has announced a new partnership with Danish studio Flashbulb Games to bring the physics-based puzzle platformer Max: The Curse of Brotherhood to the PS4. Max: The Curse of Brotherhood first released on Xbox One and PC back in December 2013, but this new partnership will see the beloved …