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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, …

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, …

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 …

When Nolan Bushnell summons Spil’s staff to a games design meeting, things are sure to get interesting. Will Freeman listens in on an industry legend fostering creativity through tomfoolery

Fresh from its triumph as this year’s UK Game of the Show at Gamescom, PaperSeven studio head Alice Guy discusses the developer’s highly propitious first-person drama

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, …

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’ …

Kiss’ Darryl Still discusses how to manage expectations for a new IP

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 …

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