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Last week’s speedrun event Summer Games Done Quick raised more than $1.2m for charity, organizers have announced. Polygon reports Games Done Quick beat last year’s SGDQ total by $500,000, and donations are still coming in and being counted. Whatever the final total ends up being, it’s a new record for …

Rocket League continues to dominate Steam’s best sellers list heading into August. The title outsold Ark: Survival Evolved and Grand Theft Auto V again for the top spot on Valve’s chart. The trio have been rooted in their respective top three spots since Rocket League’s arrival early last month. Counter-Strike: …

The UK games industry can nominate charities to receive thousands of pounds from GamesAid, later this month. Between August 17th and August 28th, GamesAid members can put forward organisations they feel are deserving of receiving some of the funds it has raised. Only members of GamesAid are able to nominate …

Having only arrived last week, Windows 10 is already on the brink of overtaking the most recent version of Apple’s OSX among Steam users. The latest Steam Hardware Survey for July shows that Windows 10 is currently used by 2.3 per cent of those who agreed to take part (which …

EA’s FIFA series may continue to boss the genre when it comes to licenses, but Konami can at least celebrate another licensing victory for its latest title. IBTimes reports that Brazilian club duo Flamengo and Corinthians have signed up to appear exclusively in PES 2016 and will be completely absent …

eSports giant ESL has announced a huge Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament taking place in Dubai this September. The ESL ESEA Pro League Invitational will have $250k of prize money up for grabs across its three days. Six teams are confirmed – Fnatic, Ninjas in Pyjamas, Natus Vincere, Virtus Pro, Team …

Tim Stamper tells all in his first interview since 2007

Xbox One owners will get a bumper collection of games if they buy the Gears of War: Ultimate Edition later this month. Microsoft has announced that console owners who buy the remastered title will now also get copies of Gears of War 2, Gears of War 3 and Gears of …

‘I thought we were a good fit’

Epic Games puts $60,000 towards a new design challenge that aims to explore the possibilities its widely-used engine affords for the realm of architectural visualisation