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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 …

2K Games has confirmed an early 2015 release date for FPS title Battleborn. The Gearbox title will arrive on PS4, Xbox One and PC on February 9th, with an open beta to take place at some stage beforehand. The company has also revealed four new characters – Ambra, Mellka, Reyna …

Just two months ahead of launch, Activision has completely changed the visual style of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5. The game was officially announced in May. However, following the first gameplay video last month it faced a huge amount of criticism for its graphics, which many felt were far below …

Consoles games form publisher EA will from this point on be released on Thursdays in the UK. Friday has been the established release date for video games in the UK since the dawn of the industry, with exceptions typically only happening to either coincide with a global Tuesday release or …

Microsoft’s cloud-powered destructible environments in Crackdown could be the next big next-gen evolution if they deliver on the pitch shown in this live demonstration. The game got a 2016 release date at the Xbox Gamescom 2015 press briefing on Tuesday, when Microsoft also revealed that the title will make use …

We catch up with programmer Murillo Titon de Souza to find out the origins of its wacky new IP