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Nintendo has reiterated that it will make money on each NX unit sold. The firm traditionally makes money off of its hardware business, in contrast to its rivals which loses money on the consoles in the hope they’ll make the money back from the software. However, with Wii U – …

Activision has confirmed that its next Call of Duty game will be called Infinite Warfare. The game is due out on November 4th and will go ‘beyond Earth’ and take place in the wider solar system. The game is being created by Infinity Ward, the studio that created the franchise …

In an interview with MCV, owner of Team Dignitas, Michael “ODEE” O’Dell, denied reports that he has sold the organisation’s spot in the NA LCS Challenger Series. “At the moment it [the Dignitas LoL team] is kind of up in the air,” said ODEE at the CEVO Gfinity Season 9 …

In an interview with MCV, owner of Team Dignitas, Michael ODEE” O’Dell, denied reports that he has sold the organisation’s spot in the NA LCS Challenger Series. At the moment it [the Dignitas LoL team] is kind of up in the air,” said ODEE at the CEVO Gfinity Season 9 …

The initial schedule and the first three groups for the upcoming ELEAGUE competition from US media giant Turner have been announced. The action will kick off on Tuesday May 24th, with Group A that features MLG Columbus champions Luminosity along with Team Liquid, Cloud9 and Renegades. Each week Tuesdays and …

The Kickstarter for a new FPS from the co-creator of Doom has been cancelled. The crowdfunding campaign for Blackroom only went live on Monday and had in the four days that followed received backing of over $130k, toward its goal of $700k. However, John Romero and Id Software co-founder Adrian …

US retail giant GameStop has rolled out an… interesting marketing push to promote its trade-in scheme. The firm has launched a new trailer (below) which explains its (admittedly, pretty simply) trade-in scheme using goats. GameSpot reports that two versions of this ad (one 30 second, another 60 second) will be …

Veteran designer expects to be able to show off new FPS’ key features in a couple of months

In the early 1990s, certain specialist games magazines liked to encourage its readers to try their hands at making games. Amiga Format in particular contained programming information and ran game development contests for its readers (which at it peaks totalled over 170,000 a month). Andy Davidson, an A-level student in …

Post-credit scenes seem to have become a thing for lots of big-screen outings nowadays, but Rovio has put its own twist on it. The company has urged viewers of The Angry Birds Movie to snub cinema etiquette, get out their phones and load up new release Angry Birds Action as …