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Publisher Blizzard hopes that its brand new shooter IP Overwatch becomes one of its pillar franchises. Speaking to MCV, senior game designer Michael Chu said that his aspiration is for Overwatch to be up there with Blizzard’s other huge IP, such as Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo. Overwatch launched on May …

Sony’s PlayStation 4 is the only console in the UK to sell more so far this year than it had in 2015. That’s according to hardware figures seen by MCV, which indicate that PS4 sales year-to-date are 6.7 per cent up year-on-year to 207,907 units. Overall, console sales in the …

Multiple sources unearth plans to launch exclusives – including Halo – across Xbox One and PC, with more regular hardware revisions set to shake up five-year console cycle

Much-hyped space exploration outing No Man’s Sky has been pushed back by as much as two months, rumours suggest. Kotaku reports that the game will miss its June 21st release date, and that a new date has not yet been put in place. The slip could be as much as …

Konami has released the first details of PES 2017, which is due out this August. Powered once again with the Fox Engine, additions include the new Real Touch mechanic that alters the flow of the game based on more unpredictable ball movement, and a new Precise Pass system that brings …

‘We embrace the idea that players mod the game to best represent how they want to play, we do NOT however wish to enable discriminatory practices,’ developer says, adding that comments surrounding mod reinforced decision

The creator of Monkey Island Ron Gilbert has publicly asked Disney for the rights to some of his gaming IP. Taking to Twitter (below), Gilbert specifically is after the Monkey Island and Maniac Mansionproperties – franchises that he created during his time at LucasArts. He even goes as far as …

PS4 exceeded even Sony’s own expectations last year, but the platform holder has predicted that the machine will do even better next year. 17.7m PS4s were sold in Sony’s last financial year, ahead of the 17.5m it had forecast. Now the company has said that PS4 will shift a further …

Andy Payne, Ian Livingstone and Imran Yusuf are the first three patrons of GamesAid. The trio were voted in by the trustees and will represent the games industry charity within the games community. When we set up GamesAid back in 2007, we never realised it would raise over 2m to …

The team behind Doctor Who: Legacy has moved from the United States to the UK. Tiny Rebel Games has traded the glitz and glamour of Los Angeles for a new office in Newport, South Wales. The studio’s creative director Lee Cummings grew up in the region, and his family owns …