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Two brand new releases fly to the head of the UK All Formats charts. Far Cry Primal shoots to No.1, marking Ubisoft’s first top spot of the year. Games in the Far Cry series normally launch in the busy Q4 period. GfK notes that this is the first entry in …

Microsoft’s AR glasses will cost $3,000 and include Young Conker, Fragments and RoboRaid as games demos

Popular toys and video game entrepreneur Fergus McGovern passed away at the weekend. He was just 50. McGovern is best known for co-founding Probe, a games developer that had worked on a number of major video game franchises including FIFA, Alien, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Mortal Kombat. He sold …

A second VR headset now has an official UK price. HTC has announced how the $800 it is charging for Vive in the US will translate on this side of the pond. The number it has produced? 689. By today’s exchange rate $800 is worth about 576, so that’s a …

New Pokmon titles Sun and Moon will be localised into Chinese, The Pokemon Company has revealed. In a short Nintendo Direct (below), the Japanese firm’s boss Tsunekazu Ishihara (pictured) said that the two new games would be available in nine languages at launch, including Simplified and Traditional Chinese. In addition, …

The co-founder and studio head of COD developer Sledgehammer Games has said that the industry must start confronting its diversity problem. As reported by Games Industry, a 2005 report from the International Game Developers Association found that 88.5 per cent of developers were male, 83.3 per cent white and 92 …

A listing for the as-of-yet unannounced Battlefield 5 has turned up online, complete with a very surprising detail. PCGamesN reports that an entry for Battlefield 5 has cropped up on the site of German retailer World of Games. As well as naming PS4, Xbox One and PC as the formats, …

As we countdown to the MCV Awards 2016, which takes place in London on March 3rd, we profile each of the finalists for the Digital Marketing Team category Bethesda The challenge for Fallout 4 was to take a sequel to a game that launched seven years ago and convert the …

This weekend, an event celebrating Pokmon’s 20th birthday will be hosted by none other than ET, Charlie’s Angels and Never Been Kissed star Drew Barrymore. The Los Angeles event – dubbed the Pokmon Afternoon Soiree – is being held tomorrow (Saturday, February 27th), and will be an ‘intimate’ celebration of …

Multiplayer online shooters that lock some of their map content behind paywalls risk fragmenting their community. That’s according to Microsoft’s Larry ‘Major Nelson’ Hyrb, who in IGN’s latest Podcast Unlocked episode praised 343 Industries for making Halo 5’s post-release map downloads free to all players, GameSpot reports. [DLC passes can …