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Beyond Good & Evil creator Michel Ancel has seemingly confirmed that a sequel is in development. After weeks of posting images related to the Beyond Good & Evil series to his Instagram with little more than cryptic messages, Ancel posted another image, this time of a Rastafarian rhino, with a …

Mike Bithell has revealed his next project, EarthShape, which is a Daydream View VR game featuring Sue Perkins from The Great British Bake Off. EarthShape initially started out as a small side project for Bithell when working on Volume Koda. Made up of Unity store assets he was playing around …

Not one to be left behind Google has finally entered the world of VR, we’ll just ignore Google cardboard, with Daydream View. The new VR headset is designed to be used with the new Pixel phone, which was also announced yesterday. Much like the Samsung Gear VR, slotting your phone …

Google has announced the Pixel, the first phone made entirely by the search giant with no other companies involved. The Pixel features the best smartphone camera ever, with a 12.3MP camera featuring an f/2.0 aperture and big 1.55 micron pixels, which certainly sounds impressive. It also comes loaded with the …

An angry mod has taken it upon themselves to completely close the No Man’s Sky page on Reddit. User ‘Rougewolf’ blamed the toxicity that had infected the community for the move. Eurogamer reports that the subreddit had 150k subscribers at the time of its closure. So I purged the subreddit,” …

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Here we are again: With more than a little dj vu, North American clubs are 6-3 after the first week of games at Worlds. It’s the same three teams—Team SoloMid, Counter Logic Gaming and Cloud9—and the same overall regional record with the second round-robin looming. Read more on ESPN >>>

The biggest event of the League of Legends calendar is finally underway, and the action at Worlds has already been outstanding. Teams no one thought stood a chance have taken games off the top competitors, while teams that some predicted would go far have stumbled, and there have been more …

Once in a blue (buff) moon, Riot decides to really buckle down and create a jungle-specific champion. The last one we got was Rek’Sai and the time before that, well, let’s just say jungle was the role for rejected top lane champions. But with League’s newest jungler, Ivern, we are …

Last week, Hearthstone’s latest set of card changes were announced. Targeting some of the most oppressive and powerful decks in the game these nerfs could well change the game significantly ahead of the $1 million Hearthstone World Championship. Read more on The Daily Dot >>>