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‘Brexit is the most popular disease name in NdemicCreation’s Plague Inc at the moment. This was announced by the game’s official Twitter account (below), which also pointed out that ‘Trump’ has been pushed to second place. Meanwhile, ‘Death’ holds the No.3 spot. Polygon reports that developer James Vaughan has said …

Microsoft’s premium, pricey and customisable Xbox One Elite gamepad appears to be doing well for itself. Xbox boss Phil Spencer tweeted (below) that the company has shipped one million of these controllers. While, of course, this does not mean that Microsoft has sold one million of the Elite gamepads, it …

A brand new entry in the Harvest Moon series has shot to the top spot in Japan, according to date from Famitsu. The 3DS title shifted 110,597 units in its first week, with New 3DS LL hardware sales rising six per cent week-on-week. Meanwhile, the Wii U version of Minecraft …

Cheering is the latest way to financially support your favourite Twitch streamers, by adding premium emotes to your chat messages. Bits emotes can be purchased in bundles of 100, 500,1500, 5000, 10000 and 25000, with 100 costing $1.40. The bigger bundle you purchase the bigger discount you get, so 25,000 …

After a petition linked to William "Leffen" Hjelte’s denial of a US P-1 visa hit 100,000 signatures, the US government has issued a statement on whether or not eSports players are considered athletes. Earlier in the year the Free Leffen campaign was started in an attempt to help secure Leffen, …

Activision claims that Trek Industries’ shooter Orion has been using assets from Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 and Advanced Warfare. The weapon art in question includes the M8A7 rifle, the Haymaker rifle, and the Bal-27 rifle," stated Activision’s request. As a consequence, Orion has been removed from Steam for …

Nightdive Studios is trying to bring cult title System Shock back to life. The studio just launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a remake of the iconic FPS title. The team’s goal is to raise $900,000, $360,000 of which has already been funded. The campaign will end on July 28th. …

In 1999, PC-focused Criterion Studios asked Fiona Sperry to set up a new development arm within the company. The result was Criterion Games, a step into the brave new world of console. Its first title was TrickStyle, a Dreamcast game published by Acclaim. The project was signed by one Alex …

Major devs including CD Projekt Red, Sam Barlow, DICE, The Chinese Room, Remedy and more nominated for this year’s celebration

The number of subscribers to Sony’s PlayStation Plus online mode has nearly doubled in the last year. In January 2015, the company boasted of 10.9m paid users on the service; that figure has now risen to 20.8m, according to a presentation by Sony Interactive Entertainment chief Andrew House at Sony’s …