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Roll7’s skateboarding sequel OlliOlli 2: Welcome to Olliwood is heading to PC platforms next week, publisher Devolver Digital has announced. The game is set to launch on Windows, Mac and Linux platforms on August 11thvia Steam, GOG and Humble Store. The PC version will cost $14.99 – matching the PlayStaiton …

Casual games studio Gameloft has reported positive financial results for its second quarter and first half of 2015. The French company posted a year-on-year sales increase of 15 per cent for the first half of its fiscal year, reaching €127.4m. North America accounted for 24 per cent of sales, while …

505 Games and Re-Logic have confirmed 3DS and Wii U versions of Terraria are in the works for release in early 2016. Both editions will feature touch screen controls and multiplayer – the 3DS supporting up to four players through local WiFi, and the Wii U offering full online support …

Strategy game coming Autumn 2016

Microsoft closed its Gamescom 2015 conference with a good old fashioned ‘one more thing’, this year, although it wasn’t what the preamble had led many to believe. The announcement – in autumn 2016 Microsoft will release Halo Wars 2 on both Xbox One and PC. The surprise, however, is that …

Tomb Raider sequel Rise of the Tomb Raider is coming to Xbox One this mid-November. The game, which will be exclusive to Microsoft’s console for a year before its release on PS4, is due out on November 13th. That’s three days after Fallout 4 and five days before Star Wars …

$1m Halo World Championship starts this Winter

Xbox is finally making a serious move into the eSports sector, it seems. The platform holder has announced the first-ever Halo World Championships, which will be backed by its biggest-ever investment in the pro-gaming space. This will consist of a one million dollar prize pool for the tournament, which will …

Football fans yet to upgrade to an Xbox One are in luck – EA has revealed FIFA 16 bundles for the console. The FIFA 16 Xbox One bundles will include either a one- or 12-month subscription to EA Access, EA’s monthly game service. The bundles will feature 500GB or 1TB …

Just as it did at E3, Microsoft has used its Gamescom platform to show off some brand new footage of Dark Souls 3. Those who have played Bloodborne will immediately recognise the influence here, with the combat noticeably faster than previous entries in the series. That influence seems to have …