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Gamescom set a new visitor record this year with more than 350,000 attendees passing through its halls from 106 countries. It also marks the first time Gamescom has beat the ‘100 country mark’ for visitors, cementing its importance on the international stage. Gamescom 2017 also saw 30,700 trade visitors attend …

The University of North Texas has announced the creation of a $200,000 esports facility, “The Nest” which will open on August 30.  The facility, embedded in the university’s Media Library, has fifteen top-spec computers with several esports titles installed. These can be used by the students to play recreationally or …

The Xbox One X has become the fastest selling Xbox pre-order in Microsoft’s history, according to the platform holder. Pre-orders opened on Sunday August 20th just before Gamescom, and the Project Scorpio launch edition of the console is already sold out in several territories, says Microsoft. Another round of pre-orders …

Uncharted: The Lost Legacy has gone straight in at No.1 in the UK weekly charts, becoming the sixth PlayStation exclusive title to debut at the top spot so far this year. Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy, meanwhile, fell to No.3 after sales declined by 10 per cent week-on-week, allowing Codemasters’ F1 …

Esports organisation Rogue has become the first organisation to hire professional Destiny players for Destiny 2.  The team announced on Sunday that they had picked up six competitive Destiny players and streamers, ’Dr0ptacularr’, ‘DrLupo’, ‘Flankxr’, ‘Lil Sonic’, ‘Extremlzm’, and ‘WaRbulletproof’. The decision is somewhat noteworthy because there’s not much of …

Lunatic-Hai, a South Korean esports outfit best known as two-time back-to-back OGN Overwatch Apex winners, has announced in a post on Facebook that they will be fielding teams in CS:GO and PUBG. The announcement was in Korean, but has been translated by Slingshot Esports. In the announcement, Lunatic Hai state: …

Vampyr is the new project of Life is Strange developer Dontnod, and while it’s very much an action-adventure RPG, you can definitely feel the Dontnod touch. This isn’t your traditional RPG, after all, as who and how many people you decide to kill will directly impact the story and other …

Ukie’s former head of public affairs Theo Blackwell has been appointed by the Mayor of London as his new chief digital officer. The position, which is the first of its kind, will see Blackwell play a leading role in realising the Mayor’s ambition to make London the world’s smartest city, …

Havingworked on triple-A titles such as Destiny, Halo, and Red Dead Redemption, the team at Polyarc has a pretty impressive CV. But when co-founders Tam Armstrong, Chris Alderson and Danny Bulla left Bungie in 2015 to create their new studio, they decided to make an altogether different kind of game. …

Cuphead has been in development for a while now, some seven years in total, but it’s finally coming out on September 29th and so we took a chance to play the near-finished game at gamescom. The side-scrolling shooter hasn’t been a big genre for many a year, and the genre …