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Reports in the aftermath of the recent Paris terror attack have alleged that ISIS is using PS4s to freely communicate. The accusation, which was made by Belgium’s Interior Minister Jan Jambon, centres on the claim that PS4’s player-to-player communications use an encryption method that I harder to crack than other …

After the record-breaking success of Skyrim, Bethesda returns to the nuclear wasteland for Fallout 4. MCV looks at the merchandise set to make gamers glow green with envy (not radiation) Bethesda is pulling out all the stops in its follow-up to two of the most popular games of the last …

Core engine of The Game Creators' toolset converted to C++ foundation

Sony has said that a port of 1992 SNES platformer Super Star Wars will be released for PS4 and Vita this week. That’s in the US at least – we’ve still not yet had definitive word on whether it will arrive in Europe this week. A November 17th release in …

Details of further edits to the European and American versions of Wii U RPG Xenoblade Chronicles X have provoked yet more bizarre censorship allegations. Siliconera reports that in the Japanese version of the game the character creator allows users to control breast size with a slider, allowing the game’s 13-year-old …

Professional Gaming has come a long way since its beginnings in 1980, when more than 10,000 gaming fanatics gathered to compete in theSpace InvadersTournament. Today, the number of competitors and spectators runs into the tens of millions worldwide. With the stakes much higher, professional gamers can now make a living …

Nintendo has successfully taken an Italian seller of devices designed to allow pirated games to run to court – and won. The decision was made by the First Instance Tribunal of Milan against an importer and seller of so-called ‘circumvention devices’, with game copiers and mod chips given as two …

Nate Wells joins studio behind Ultima Underworld successor

It’s been three weeks sinceBlizzard’snewest franchise went into beta and already one of the oldest Americanesportsorganizations is planning to build a team in the game. CompLexity Gaming is looking to put together anOverwatchteam by talking toTeam Fortress 2players, founder Jason Lake told the Daily Dot. The organization already has a …

Adult video site Pornhub has said that the release of Fallout 4 caused a temporary dip in its traffic. The site told VentureBeat that traffic among its gaming users fell 10 per cent upon the game’s release. Traffic first started falling at around 5am US time on the day of …