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Assassin’s Creed publisher Ubisoft has anounced its intention to open a theme park in Malaysia. According to a post on the Ubi Blog, the attraction will be situated in the nation’s capital of Kuala Lumpur. It’s set to open in 2020 and will be 10,000 square meters in size. Unsurprisingly …

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Riot Games will close 2015 with an All-Star League of Legends tournament set to take place in early December. The 2015 League of Legends All-Star Event (ASE) will be held in the North American LCS Studio in Los Angeles from December 10th to 13th. As with past ASE competitions, League …

VR might not be for everyone just yet, but you’d be a luddite to count the nascent technology out for good. That’s according to the 22-year-old creator of the Oculus Rift, Palmer Luckey, who recently candidly told GameSpot that those yet to be won over by headsets such as the …

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Konami’s Metal Gear Solid V debuts at the top of the charts this week, but it failed the beat the Week One sales of both the Batman: Arkham Knight and The Witcher III. It is also the best-selling week one for the series so far, beating the sales of Metal …

The video production firm behind Red vs Blue and Achievement Hunter will next week release a new documentary looking at the popularity of Let’s Play videos. As well as looking back at the all-around success of the Let’s Play format, which sees a group of video creators play games while …

Destiny composer and ex-Bungie employee Marty O’Donnell has come out on top in his lawsuit against his former company. O’Donnell initially won the suit over a year ago, but a new report from Venture Beat reveals Bungie’s appeals caused a final ruling to be delayed until just last week. Now, …

In the spring of 2014, after a decade of visa problems, the Hassan family moved out of its spacious house in Karachi, Pakistan, to an apartment in Rosemont, a suburb of Chicago near O’Hare International Airport. They were a family of eight, two parents and six kids, jammed into a …

UK eSports tournament provider Gfinity says big traditional TV broadcasters need to wake up and recognise how popular competitive gaming is with today’s youth. Speaking at a panel session at Intel’s showing of eSports documentary ‘All Work All Play’ yesterday evening, Paul Chaloner, head of broadcasting at Gfinity and host …