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Minecraft: Story Mode Season 2 to hit retail this autumn

1 minecraft story mode season 2 headerjpg Minecraft: Story Mode Season 2 to hit retail this autumn

Mojang and Telltale Games have announced the second season of Minecraft: Story Mode, with the first episode set to launch digitally on July 11th on Xbox One, PS4, PC, Mac, iOS and Android devices. A retail launch is also planned for the game, but this won’t be released until the …

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Dissidia Final Fantasy NT heading to PS4 next year

1 dissidiant announce screenshot16 copypng Dissidia Final Fantasy NT heading to PS4 next year

After leaked box art appeared on Amazon this morning, Square Enix has now officially confirmed that the next entry in its Final Fantasy brawling series, Dissidia Final Fantasy NT, will be heading to PS4 in Europe and North America in early 2018. Developed in partnership with Team Ninja and Koei …

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What Happened to Mad Catz?

5 mad catzjpg What Happened to Mad Catz?

Mad Catz was one of the most recognisable names in games peripherals. Its history stretched right back to 1989 and incorporated other well-known brands such as GameShark, Joytech, Saitek, and Tritton. It sold peripherals for practically every console, including every generation of PlayStation to date. The company also made the …

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Rebellion announces new IP Strange Brigade

1 strangebrigadejpg Rebellion announces new IP Strange Brigade

There’s a new game on the way from the makers of Sniper Elite. It’s called Strange Brigade, and is described as a third person adventure set in the 1930s. It can be played solo, but also supports up to four players. It will be released on PS4, Xbox One and …

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VR and mobile will be bigger than ever at E3 2017 next week

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It’s E3 next week, in case you hadn’t heard. Organiser ESA has thrown around some numbers ahead of the big event, claiming that the week will generate over $40m for LA. The ESA is also keen to highlight the new blood attending the show. There will be 79 new companies …

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MCV’s guide to enjoying the E3 press conferences from the UK

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Dismissed by some as a marketing machine, watching E3 has become a sacred ritual for many gamers. Here, couch-E3 veteran Jack Ridsdale give us his survival guide for the event. A few years back, watching E3 from home was a more manageable affair. One solid Monday of hot games news that …

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E3 of the Dead: our pre-show analysis

1 zombiessssjpgjpeg E3 of the Dead: our pre-show analysis

The Los Angeles Convention Centre has always been a place of peril as well as profit. Attending is something of a survival course: high-pressure meetings, late-late-late-night networking, cross-floor appointment dashes or the grinding endurance test of simply standing and smiling on the stand. But forget everything you think you know …

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Gold and Silver PS4s confirmed for the UK

1 goldps4jpg Gold and Silver PS4s confirmed for the UK

Two new PS4 hardware colour options have been confirmed by Sony. Following last week’s leak from US retailer Target, gold and silver versions of Sony’s machine have now been confirmed. The UK release date has been set for June 28th. Each will include a 500GB hard drive and come with …

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Eastern European distributor Iris-Mega acquires Videotop Skupina

1 iristopjpg Eastern European distributor Iris-Mega acquires Videotop Skupina

There has been a big consolidation in the Eastern European video games distribution sector. Serbian outfit Iris-Mega, which is based in Belgrade, has agreed to acquire Slovenian rival Videotop Skupina, which is based in Maribor. Iris-Mega, which has been operating since the ’90s, recently acquired IT distributor PC Centar in …

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