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Read More »FC Schalke 04 signs multiple FIFA players
After signing a League of Legends team last month German football club FC Schalke 04 has signed three FIFA players. The team is made up of Joshua Krone” Begehr, a former world champion, Mario Viska, who has seen success over in Germany and Cihan Yasarlar, who has been competing at …
Read More »ElrubiusOMG, jackfrags and MKIceandFire were the top YouTubers of E3
Industry analytics firm Fancensus has researched the most popular YouTubers during E3 2016. The firm has listed the ten most influential YouTube channels for the week of E3. The firm checked the views of all videos posted that week related to E3 content and ranked them. Top of the list …
Read More »Xbox defends E3 line-up: ‘We wanted to show games people can buy soon’
Microsoft has explained its decision to reveal just a handful of games at last month’s E3 games show. The firm showed new trailers for a series of previously announced titles at E3, while the new game surprises at the show came in the form of Dead Rising 4, the expected …
Read More »Interview: Xbox sets sights on the next great platform war
When Microsoft said it was taking gaming seriously with Windows 10, we weren’t the only ones that didn’t believe it. We’d heard it all before. We are told that: ‘gaming is at the heart of Windows Vista/7/8 [delete as appropriate]’, a couple of games would then emerge, and a year …
Read More »Happy birthday Sonic: UK games industry execs share their best memories
As the speedy hedgehog reaches quarter of a century old, UK games retailers, publishers, media and developers reminisce about their favourite Sonic games and moments. Simon Bennett, Roll7:My earliest memory was one of my most favourite gaming memories, sat on my mate Stu’s sofa, on the Game Gear, playing one-life-one-pass …
Read More »New Sonic game set for 2017, could be revealed at Comic-Con
A new Sonic game is set to arrive in 2017, Gematsu reports. Sega apparently made the announcement at the character’s 25th anniversary event in Tokyo by long-time Sonic developer Takash Iizuka. MCV understands that Sonic is set to have a big focus at Comic-Con in San Diago next month, so …
Read More »Sega: ‘We are turning Sonic into an entertainment icon’
Late last year, Sega made a number of changes to its US business that has made a big impact on the future of its famous blue mascot. Sonic, which celebrates its 25th year in existence this month, has a new management team with the purpose of establishing the hedgehog not …
Read More »Doom holds No.1 in UK charts, Rocket League speeds into No.6
Doom is No.1 for the second week in a row, but it was an overall poor week for games retail. The combined sales of the Top 10 video games came to 65,000 units, one of the lowest ever totals for a Top Ten. Note, all of this data is physical …
Read More »RageSquid backs key reseller criticism: ‘We’d rather players pirated our game’
'Just torrent it instead of putting money in the wrong hands,' says founder Lex Decrauw
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