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There are three new entries in the Top Ten this week, with Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon Wildlands debuting at No.1. A year to the week after The Division enjoyed its record-breaking arrival, Wildlands sets a new 2017 week one record, and becomes the second fastest selling Tom Clancy title ever. Last …
Read More »Spectrum ZX Vega+ delayed once more after alleged new technical setback
The saga of the Spectrum ZX Vega+ continues this week with news of a fresh delay to the hardware and another personal attack from the company behind it. Last week it was reported that Retro Computers threatened the BBC with legal action if it reported on its ongoing failure to …
Read More »Steam unveils further tweaks to its review system
Changes made to "fine-tune the relevance and accuracy of the overall review score for each product."
Read More »Nintendo: ‘There are no widespread technical problems’ with Switch
Joy Con syncing and screen scratching problems reported online are not symptomatic of problems with the Switch hardware, Nintendo has claimed. Speaking to Time, the platform holder has for the first time responded to the growing reports of manufacturing or design problems with the machine. At Nintendo, we take great …
Read More »John Carmack sues Zenimax for $22.5m
Alleges this is owed from Zenimax's acquisition of id Software
Read More »MCV Awards 2017: In pictures
Pictures from last night’s 2017 MCV Awards arenow available to view online. Whether you were unable to attend or simply want a reminder of how last night went, a full album of images are now online. We’ve included a few pictures below, and there is a full album onFacebook which …
Read More »Hello Games announces Hello Labs to support indie game projects
No Man’s Sky developer Hello Games has announced a new program designed to help fund and support indie projects from other studios. VentureBeat reports that Hello Labs will focus on procedurally generated titles – a method it employed to create the huge galaxy that featured in No Man’s Sky. For …
Read More »Pepsi’s Brisk sponsors the Rocket League Championship Series
Psyonix has announced that Pepsi Co’s Brisk brand has joined the Rocket League Championship Series as a sponsor. Brisk becomes a sponsor for Season 3 of the Rocket League Championship Series and according to a cryptic post from the developers “has a lot more exciting news for Rocket League fans …
Read More »Castle named as new Amazon Game Studios head
Amazon Game Studios has named its new head – Westwood Studios co-founder Louis Castle. Castle will be a familiar name to RTS fans, having created the Command & Conquer series. We remained at Westwood after it was acquired by EA in the late ‘90s, heading up what became EA Blueprint. …
Read More »Carmack strikes back in Oculus-Zenimax legal merry-go-round
Id Software co-founder and Oculus Rift co-designer John Carmack is suing ZeniMax for allegedly missing payments. The legal situation between ZeniMax and Oculus is torrid, to say the last. ZeniMax was awarded $500m in damages last month over a trade-secrets breach, but has since gone on to try and halt …
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