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Galaxy Note 7 owners who have refused to hand over their handsets will soon find themselves unable to use mobile data in some territories. Samsung halted production of the device last month following the disastrous exploding battery fiasco. A whole range of incentives such as cash back, free swapping to …
Read More »Capcom uncertain about multiplatform Nintendo Switch ports
Leading Japanese publisher Capcom has questioned the viability of companies bringing their PS4 and Xbox One releases to Nintendo’s new platform. The Switch’s reveal trailer made a point of showing popular games such as Skyrim and NBA 2K17 running on the new console. However, Videogamer reports that Capcom has said …
Read More »Sony says Hello Games is still working to improve No Man’s Sky
Development of No Man’s Sky continues, with Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Shawn Layden becoming one of the few to provide official post-launch comment on the game. Speaking on Live with YouTube Gaming, the executive VP and COO of Sony’s gaming arm said: Hello Games, Sean Murry and his team, had an …
Read More »Why LawBreakers ditched free-to-play
2016 has been the year of many things. It’s when virtual reality took off; when Pokmon Go briefly changed how society functioned and when video game films suddenly became ‘a thing’ once more. But it’s also been the year where the team shooter genre took off again. Perhaps inspired by …
Read More »Civilization VI hits 1m in two weeks
PC strategy title Civilization VI his hit a big milestone just two weeks after its debut. The game’s official Twitter account has announced that 1m people are now playing the game, which to date is only available on PC and Mac. It’s reviewed strongly, too, with an 89 per cent …
Read More »Updated: Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare sales nearly 50% down on Black Ops III
This year’s Call of Duty has failed to hit the heights of its predecessor in its first week in the UK. GfK Chart-Track numbers show that week one sales of COD: Infinite Warfare are down 48.4 per cent compared to 2015’s Black Ops III. Even taking into account the lack …
Read More »The Sombra ARG, Reviewed
Very few game developers have created such a stir around character releases as Blizzard has for its new Latina hacker Sombra. In fact, they’ve gone so far as to create an alternate reality game, or an ARG, around her, weaving her story throughout websites, videos, audio files and cryptic code. …
Read More »Team Dignitas on the comeback trail in CS:GO
In Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, the tide can turn in a single round, but not without the right confluence of conditions. Perhaps the underdog has slowly been chipping away at their opponents’ economy, or a player gets into the zone and finds a hot streak. For Team Dignitas, fresh from one …
Read More »Q&A: FYM Hot Sauce founder Dane Wilcox on backing Dota’s Team NP
When I heard that FYM Hot Sauce, a company based out of Portland, Oregon, had entered esports by sponsoring Team NP, I was confused. What do hot sauce and esports have in common? According to Dane Wilcox, the founder of FYM Hot Sauce, more Dota fans are interested in high …
Read More »South Korea affirms esports dominance at BlizzCon
BlizzCon took place at the Anaheim Convention Center in sunny Southern California this past weekend, but inside the venue, you might have mistaken it for Seoul, South Korea. Out of the five esports tournaments at the annual Blizzard Entertainment conference (four of which were world championships), three were won by …
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