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4Music, The Box and Kerrang TV owner The Box Plus Network wants to increase the amount of video games content shown on its networks. Viewers of these channels have become accustomed to special features on movies, but the company hopes that games can claim an increasingly large share. The network …

Gears of War was the quintessential Xbox 360 series. It was a high-budget, triple-A franchise with a huge focus on the then-new world of online console multiplayer. It’s a franchise that has sold over 22m units and generated over $1 billion since its 2006 debut. And after working on last …

One of the internet’s more reliable tipsters has said that Horizon: Zero Dawn will miss its 2016 release. Well…Horizon: Zero Dawn’s getting delayed to early 2017 from what I’m told,” shinobi602 said on Twitter. Going to look splendid on PS4k though. Just to clarify, Horizon’s going to look absolutely incredible …

‘By deliberately not participating in the ‘culture of sales’, at least for a while, you risk losing out on revenue and visibility that those sales could have generated’

‘By propagating this offensive ideology, he is feeding the fire for the dull brained Neanderthals in the industry who actually are anti-women to continue propagating these practices’

Gfinity’s Tournament Builder app is now available to download on Xbox one. The free app allows Gfinity members to sign up for and compete in a number of Xbox One eSports tournaments as well as create their own competitions. Players will also be able to submit results directly from the …

The video games community is gathering again to support charity SpecialEffect. Publishers First Touch Games and New Star have announced their participation to One Special Day. This initiative, which will happen on July 15th, will see games companies to give 100 per cent of that day’s revenues to the gamers’ …

NDreams, Devolver Digital, First Touch Games, New Star and more already signed up

The announcement of Matt Nadeshot” Haag’s new eSports organization 100 Thieves came out of nowehere. It was a surprise to everyone – and even Nadeshot himself did not expect an opportunity like this to arise in his career. I never foresaw a situation like this,” Nadeshot admitted, explaining that the …

The Year of the Kraken is almost upon us, and our tentacled overlord comes bearing nerfs. With the Standard Format and the Whispers of the Old Gods expansion launching on Tuesday, Blizzard announced sweeping nerfs to multiple cards from the Classic and Basic sets, including nerfs to meta-defining cards like …