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Sony announces new PS4 Spider-Man game developed by Insomniac

The rumours were confirmed last night: a new Spider-Man game is coming to PlayStation 4, but it’s not being developed by Sucker Punch. Sony revealed during its PlayStation E3 conference yesterday that the title is developed by Ratchet & Clank, Resistance and Sunset Overdrive studio Insomniac Games. This follows rumours …

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Video: The Last Guardian is coming out this October

It was thought by many that Sony’s The Last Guardian would never see the light of the day. But the game from the Ico and Shadow of the Colossus developer finally has a release date. It was revealed during last night’s PlayStation press conference that the game would be launching …

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OPINION: Is the £249 Xbox One S E3 2016’s ‘winner’?

It feels pretty easy this morning to draw a dividing line between the Microsoft and Sony E3 2016 press conferences. Microsoft will likely be feeling pretty chuffed with itself. Hardware is always the biggest headline grabber and in that respect Xbox has stolen the show. At 249 for the 500GB …

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Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima unveils Death Stranding

Konami veteran Hideo Kojima offered a glimpse at his new project during PlayStation’s conference at E3 last night. Death Stranding will be launched via a partnership with Sony that Kojima announced last December. But the release date was not revealed, nor the platforms on which the title will be available …

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Video: Resident Evil 7 launching next January, fully supports PlayStation VR

UPDATE: Capcom has announced that Resident Evil 7 is coming to Xbox One and PC as well as PlayStation 4. ORIGINAL STORY: Capcom’s Resident Evil series is back and returning to its horror roots. Announced on-stage last night at Sony’s press event, Resident Evil 7 is playable from start to …

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Crackdown 3 pushed back to 2017

Microsoft’s technically impressive super hero title Crackdown 3 will now be coming out next year. Developer Reagent Games announced this delay via the title’s official website. It was initially set for a 2016 release following last year’s Gamescom. As well as this change of release date, Reagent has revealed that …

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Kelsey Moser reviews the EU LCS Top 3: One of these is not like the other

In the first two weeks of the EU LCS, it’s dangerous to make assumptions about which teams will top the standings. Yet teams that sift to the top do so for a reason, whether it’s an easy early-season schedule or a head start at understanding their strengths and weaknesses. G2 …

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Quas on returning to the LCS: "When I left the scene, I wasn’t planning on coming back immediately."

For only being gone for five months, the professional League of Legends landscape sure did change during the absence of Diego Quas” Ruiz. Four North American League Championship Series teams – including NRG, for which he now plays – didn’t even exist when Quas left Team Liquid last November, and …

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CLG: A story of plateaus

Bursting onto the North American scene as a team known as NetCodeGuides, the current four man core of Counter Logic Gaming, Tarik "tarik" Celik, Stephen "reltuC" Cutler, James "hazed" Cobb and Joshua "JDM" Marzano, rapidly rose through the ranks of the North American scene and, for brief periods of time, …

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