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Book publishing giant Hachette is launching a book mobile app that combines reading with gameplay. The firm has teamed up with New Star Games and Martyn Brown’s Insight Studios to create a New Star Soccer Story, which is based on the 20m-selling New Star Soccer mobile game. The title will …

The great and the good of the UK games industry will tomorrow head to the Hilton Bankside Hotel, London for the MCV Awards 2016. But if you can’t make it, log on to Twitch.tv which will be live-streaming the entire event. The live-streaming video platform is also sponsoring the Digital …

Xbox boss Phil Spencer has once again challenged the fanboys of social media by stating that those who wish a game to fail because of its host platform aren’t real gamers. As spotted by GameSpot, when asked on Twitter what games he was most looking forward to in 2016, Spencer …

The eSports scene within the UK is an extremely exciting emerging sector, boasting a mix of promising young talent and ambition on one side, with a somewhat clique nature and a drop of British cynicism on the other. The biggest tournaments across the US, Europe and Korea boast multi-million dollar …

Online PC digital retail giant Steam is changing up how its pricing for bundles works. According to official documentation sent from Steam to developers – obtained by PCGamesN – the retailer is automatically giving buyers a discount on bundle pricing if consumers already own some of the games in a …

The next instalment in BioWare’s epic sci-fi RPG series will miss its Christmas 2016 release date. As reported by VG247, EA CFO Blake Jorgensen told attendees at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference that the game will be out in the first quarter of 2017. The holiday 2016 …

As we countdown to the MCV Awards 2016, which takes place in London on March 3rd, we profile each of the finalists for the PR Team award… Activision The reveal of Black Ops 3 in April generated over 500 million OTS and was covered by UK’s top tier mainstream outlets, …

An aggrieved developer appears to have deliberately bugged existing and paid for copies of PC title Spintires after a falling out with its co-maker. Troubles at developer Oovee are nothing new, although development of the game has continued on and off. Just last month the game’s Russian creator Pavel Zagrebelnyj …

It’s 1996 again – Pokmon Red, Green, Blue and Yellow took the No.1 spot in Japan last week according to data from Famitsu. The four titles on 3DS sold 69,234 units between them, but didn’t result in a substantial increase in 3DS hardware sales as one might expect. New 3DS …

Just because a game is competitive and popular doesn’t mean that it makes a good esport. Look at massively multiplayer online role-playing games. MMORPGs thrive on multiplayer—it’s right there in the name—and financially, they’re a multibillion-dollar industry. Yet as far as esports are concerned, MMORPGs are little more than a …