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Five Nights at Freddy’s 4 – the latest in the hit indie horror series – is launching sooner than expected. Creator Scott Cawthon has confirmed the game is now set to release on August 8th – the one-year anniversary of the original Five Nights at Freddy’s launch on Steam. The …

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth will arrive on Xbox One, Wii U and New 3DS later this month, developer Edmund McMillen has announced. The editions will hit on July 23rd, making good on McMillen’s statement in April that the revamped re-release was coming soon” to Microsoft and Nintendo platforms. McMillen …

Halo has sold more than 65m units as a franchise, Microsoft has announced. Gamasutra reports the published revealed the figure as part of a panel description at San Diego Comic-Con that featured Halo Mega Blok construction toys. Microsoft stated the series had sold over 60m copies ahead of Halo: The …

The summer movie season is in full swing, meaning cinephilic gamers will be settling down with popcorn and the latest flick. MCV checks out the games that made it to the silver screen No longer are video games merely described as having ‘cinematic qualities’ – many of the industry’s biggest …

A Skylanders figure triple-pack is now available for free for O2 customers. GAME has teamed up with the company to give away the goodies to those with the O2 Priority app. Users can use the app to generate a code that will net them the figures from any GAME store. …

Ellen Pao is no longer the CEO of Reddit. The news of her departure follows recent disruption across the site as moderators rebelled against what they saw as the unfair sacking of its AMA coordinator. Pao’s apology was seemingly not enough to quall the site’s fury. Ellen Pao resigned from …

Virtual reality company Oculus is funding development of about two dozen” virtual reality games via its Oculus Studios program. We have a pretty big investment into Oculus Studios’ triple-A, high production value games,” Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe told Gamasutra. Oculus VR is a gaming-built, owned and operated company. We’re developers …

Former Ubisoft Toronto MD also overseeing Visceral Games

Former Assassin’s Creed producer Jade Raymond has joined EA to open a new studio. It’s called Motive and is based in Montreal. The studio will work in close quarters” with BioWare and is described as a creative-driven team, incubating entirely new IP and taking on some amazing projects”. Its first …

Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson will feature on the cover of EA’s FIFA 16 in the UK. He will be joined by Barcelona forward Lionel Messi, who will grace the cover in all regions alongside a representative more likely to appeal to fans in each territory. Henderson was perhaps a surprise …