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It seems that things aren’t going completely as planned for Bethesda’s upcoming free-to-play third-person shooter Battlecry. After a big reveal in May of last year, the multiplayer-focused title has remained primarily out of the spotlight. There were plans for a closed beta (which eventually failed to take place) and a …

Six YouTube stars known for their hugely popular FIFA videos have been targeted by hackers. AnesonGib, W2S, Nepenthez, Nick28T, Bateson87 and matthdgamer have a combined audience of more than five million YouTube subscribers and post guides, tips and more video each week, with each video often seeing hundreds of thousands …

Xbox One’s Elite controller won’t be the console’s only remappable peripheral for long, Microsoft has confirmed. The firm’s director of program management Mike Ybarra explained onTwitterthat configuration options are coming for all controllers soon.” TheXbox One Elite controllerwill carry features and customization options beyond button remapping, which is largely why …

Gaming social network Raptr has announced new deals for its video sharing service Plays.tv, partnering with the Electronic Sports League and World of Tanks developer Wargraming. Gamasutrareports the moves build on Raptr founder Dennis Fong’s plans to promote Plays.tv as a method for eSports announcers to showcase highlights. The service …

Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash will launch next month for Wii U, Nintendo has announced. Nintendo of America took to Twitter to reveal Ultra Smash will arrive in both Europe and North America on November 12th. The title is the first in the Mario Tennis series to release on Nintendo’s Wii …

Game of Thrones and Tales from the Borderlands are currently the only Telltale Games available to purchase from the Apple App Store. Eurogamer reports that The Walking Dead, Back to the Future, The Wolf Among Us, Jurassic Park and Sam and Max have all vanished. And not only are they …

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A new studio has been founded by one of the core members of the team behind acclaimed indie hit The Stanley Parable. William Pugh has set up his own development house, Crows Crows Crows, and is already hard at work on his first game. Other members of the team include …

Microsoft will start shipping dev kits for its augmented reality headset HoloLens during the first quarter of 2016. It will start accepting applications for pre-orders in January. Each dev kit will cost $3,000, with a limit of two devices per application. Dev kits will initially only be shipped to the …

The end of The International and the release of The Grand Tournament has led to Blizzard’s Hearthstone and Valve’s Dota 2 swapping places in the September Twitch charts. Riot’s League of Legends and Valve’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive retain their positions in first and second place. Bungie’s Destiny jumps four places …