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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 …

Next major instalment in Capcom’s horror series goes all PT with photorealistic visuals and Beginning Hour demo

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 …

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 …

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 …

Gun Woong Jang is a famously polarizing figure in South Korean esports. His sometimes controversial actions, epic plays and even more epic victory songs have gained him a healthy amount of fans and critics alike. More than anything else, though, "Woong" has been a builder. Read more on ESPN >>>

Saturday was supposed to be the day that Dominique "SonicFox" McLean’s reign as king of Mortal Kombat was supposed to end. There was just one problem: Someone forgot to tell SonicFox. Read more on Daily Dot >>>

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 …

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 …

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, …