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Creative Assembly’s Halo strategy game will not resemble its smash-hit Total War franchise, the developer has told MCV @ Gamescom. Halo Wars 2 was the shock announcement at Microsoft’s pre-Gamescom press briefing. Creative Assembly says it is paying closer attention to the original Halo Wars (created by now defunct studio …

It dubs itself as one of the hardest puzzle games on Steam, but it’s starting to look as if indie title Journey of the Light is nothing more than an elaborate scam. The game’s description says that it has eight chapters, including the bonus one, but one disgruntled buyer has …

The third and final MCV @ Gamescom magazine for this year’s show in Cologne is available for you to read – for free – right now. We go out with a bang in the last issue, featuring looks at some of this year’s biggest hitters – Fallout 4, Star Wars …

Intel Developer Blog: Addressing the widening gender gap in STEM subjects at universities

Moon Studio’s hit platform adventure game Ori and the Blind Forest is getting a Definitive Edition, complete with a new expansion. Microsoft’s Larry Hryb, better known as Major Nelson, announced on Twitter that the expansion content is coming to Windows 10 and Xbox One later this year.” Gematsu further reports …

Rovio has announced Angry Birds 2 has amassed 20m downloads during its launch week. The milestone follows the mobile gamenetting 1m players in its first 12 hours outon the App Store and Google Play. "When we were developing and testing Angry Birds 2, we had good reason to believe we …

Mega Man Legacy Collection will land later this month on PC, PS4 and Xbox One. The six game compilation will launch digitally on August 25thon Xbox Live, PSN and (presumably) Steam for $14.99. Beyond playing Mega Man 1-6 in HD, players can also collect a wide variety of high-resolution scans …

MCV takes a look at the best accessories heading to UK retail. This week, PS4 pads can bank on SmaAcc for power and Hori has a golden delight for Zelda fans SmaAcc Power Bank for DualShock 4 Controller No player likes it when their controller runs out of battery mid-game, …

Having said recently that it would not be closing down racist threads, Reddit has once again changed its content strategy to prohibit a handful of notorious hangouts. The headline closure is r/CoonTown, although a number of other subreddits including r/WatchNiggersDie, r/bestofcoontown and r/CoonTownMeta have also now vanished. Reddit in July …

The new DVR functionality for Xbox One comes with a major caveat – it will only work with consoles fitted out with an external hard drive. The TV recording, pausing and streaming functionality was announced during the Xbox Gamescom 2015 press conference, but no mention was made of the additional …