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It appears that the PC release of Rise of the Tomb Raider had a strong debut. SuperData’s January digital games market report claims that Lara Croft’s latest adventure sold three times as many copies on PC as it did digitally on Xbox One in its first month. This obviously precludes …

Financial backing from companies including The Pokémon Company, Google and Nintendo now totals $25 million

Blood Bowl team to helm up PC and console title in absence of Sherlock Holmes dev

Capcom is bringing its three most recent mainline Resident Evil titles to next-gen consoles. Each will retail digitally and cost 15.99, with Resident Evil 6 leading the charge on March 29th. It will include all of the original’s costume DLC. Resident Evil 5 will follow in the summer and then …

The base pool for all future CS:GO Major tournaments has been raised from $250,000 to $1m thanks to Valve’s increased investment in eSports. Beginning with next month’s MLG Columbus event, every Valve-sponsored Major event will have the increased prize pool, offering $500,000 to the winners of each competition. There are …

There’s just a week to go until the MCV Awards, and some of the biggest names in the business have lined up to support the event. The MCV Awards 2016 are taking place at the swanky new venue of Hilton Bankside on Thursday March 3rd. BBC funny man Miles Jupp …

The big surprise from tomorrow’sPokmon Direct video may have just been spoilt. Nintendo in Europe has registered the names Pokmon Moon” and Pokmon Sun”, as spotted byVideogamer news chief David Scammell. This week marks the 20th anniversary of the Pokemon franchise (at least in Japan) and Nintendo is marking the …

A 24-hour Twitch stream kicking off tomorrow hopes to raise money for the really very wonderful SpecialEffect. The event is called GameBlast16. It will be broadcast live on Twitch from the Cambridge HQ of Runescape developer Jagex. Activities include the 1,000 litre gunging of the Runescape dev team, who will …

We talk to Wooga and the show's writers to find out how they're creating a gem-swapping saga

This week’s Japanese charts – provided by Famitsu – feature a wealth of brand new releases. The best-performing of these titles is Kadokawa’s Vita title KanColle Kai, which sold 137,201 units during the week. Meanwhile, Koei Tecmo’s Attack on Titan game takes second, third and eighth places. The PS4 SKU …