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Many of the top players have borne witness to Leffen’s rise over the past few years, but only Armada has been there since the beginning.From their earliest meeting to Leffen’s ban to getting taken down for the very first time, Armada recalls his tumultous relationship with Leffen — and why …
Read More »Minecraft stars in new Xbox One S bundle
Yet another Xbox One S bundle has been confirmed for UK retail. The Xbox One S Minecraft Favourites Bundle will arrive on October 11th in the UK, priced at 249. It offers a download code for the Xbox edition of Minecraft, along with plenty of extras – 230 character skins, …
Read More »Netflix grabs exclusive rights to animated Skylanders series
Skylanders Academy, the new animated series based on the hit Activision franchise, will arrive next month. Netflix has grabbed the exclusivity deal for the show, which will go live next month on October 28th. A second series is already planned for late 2017. Futurama’s Eric Rogers is the series’ showrunner, …
Read More »Amazon trims PS4 Slim and Xbox One S to £224
Could another Christmas hardware price war be in the offing? Sony’s now available slimmed down 500GB PS4 has an RRP of 259. Microsoft’s 500GB Xbox One S, meanwhile, has an RRP of 249. Both, however, can already be had for a lot less than that. As spotted by Videogamer, both …
Read More »Horizon Zero Dawn is ‘radically different’ to Killzone
Developer Guerrilla Games has spoken of its enthusiasm about moving away from the Killzone franchise after more than a decade. "It’s really exciting," studio manager Hermen Hulst told Game Informer, as reported by GameSpot. "It is fantastic when you’ve worked on a franchise for more than a decade – actually, …
Read More »Jagex to sell banned Runescape players’ loot in blind auctions
Banned Runescape players are to have their indignity heightened by watching their in game loot snapped up by other players. Rock Paper Shotgun reports that the game is to auction off the in-game items associated with characters owned by banned players in ‘Storage Wars’ style blind auctions. Called ‘Bank Bidders’ …
Read More »This year’s iPhone tech controversy is… hissing
It appears that some iPhone 7s are hissing at their owners. ArsTechnica reports that a handful of owners, some of which are quite high profile, have reported a hissing noise coming from the their smartphone. The sound seems to emanate from behind the Apple logo, which is roughly where the …
Read More »How China’s biggest companies are crushing it at virtual reality
SuperData director of research and head of VR/AR strategy Stephanie Llamas takes a look at why companies in the region have embraced the nascent medium
Read More »Kojima sets 2018 Death Stranding release date, scoffs at Metal Gear Survive zombies
Death Stranding, the first game from the new Kojima Productions, could be out in 2018. That’s if Hideo Kojima’s hints are accurate, and his development schedules uncharacteristically tight. IGN reports that Kojima said at the Tokyo Game Show not only that the game would be out before the 2020 Tokyo …
Read More »Microsoft’s Xbox Scorpio games will offer native 4K graphics
The 4K war of words has intensified with a vow from Microsoft that first party Xbox Scorpio titles will support native 4K visuals. Both Xbox Scorpio and PS4 Neo will offer 4K visuals, but that does not necessarily mean that the games will be generating a 4K image – in …
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