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EA’s football blockbuster FIFA 16 has claimed its sixth No.1 this year. The title shot back to the top spot last week during the Black Friday sales period, and it maintains its position despite a 41 per cent dip in sales. The rest of the Top Three remains unchanged – …

MOBA pushed to 2016 as 16 employees depart the company

Dark Souls III will launch in Europe and North America on April 12th, Bandai Namco has revealed. The game will debut in Japan a few weeks earlier, arriving March 24th for the region. Publisher Bandai Namco has also announced three special editions of Dark Souls III. The first is the …

It’s taken Double Fine just a weekend’s time to amass nearly $2m for Pyschonauts 2 crowdfunding campaign on Fig. The project hit the $1m milestone less than a day afterit was announced at The Game Awards last week, and has added over $800,000 more since. At time of writing, the …

Valve has added a new option to Steam, allowing users to permanently delete games and other purchases from their library. VG247points to the new feature – perhaps a welcome sight to those who have made questionable purchases during discount promotions, or received a joke gift from someone on their friends …

There’s a – sort of – new Rez game on the way. Entitled Rez Infinite, the title supports the firm’s upcoming PlayStation virtual reality headset. It was announced on-stage at PlayStation Experience. It seems to borrow heavily from the original 2001 title – with involvement from creatorTetsuya Mizuguchi – but …

Insomniac’s remake of the original Ratchet and Clank title is going to be hitting stores in early 2016. The studio’s boss Ted Price took to the stage at PlayStation Experience and revealed the game would be coming out on April 12th, 2016. This is shortly ahead of the launch of …

The latest entry in Sega’s Yakuza series, Yakuza 0 is coming to the West. This was revealed on-stage at PlayStation Experience. No release date for the title has been announced just yet other than ‘2016’. The title launched in Japan on March 12th this year. In addition, a Western port …

Double Fine is continuing its recent trend of remastering its classic titles for PlayStation. The firm is giving its title Full Throttle the remaster treatment. The title will be hitting PS4 and Vita. This follows the developer bringing Grim Fandango to those platforms earlier this year. The firm is also …

The last launch character for Street Fighter V has been revealed at PlayStation Experience. Game producerYoshinoriOno announced that the last brawler for the fighting title would be FANG. He also joked that this was the first character announcement that he not been leaked ahead of launch. He also revealed the …