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The free-running hero of Mirror’s Edge Catalyst will taking a completely hands-on approach to combat, it seems. Faith was able to utilise various firearms in the original game in the series, 2008’s Mirror’s Edge – despite players being encouraged to punch and kick their way out of encounters. The gunplay’s …

Nintendo is working alongside Platinum Games to make Star Fox Zero. The developer’s director Yusuke Hashimoto joined Nintendo’s Miyamoto to show off the game at a press event at E3 earlier. The Japanese developer has been very busy, it seems. Not only is it working on this title, it is …

It might’ve been a staple of Sony’s E3 conferences for the past two years, but expansive sci-fi title No Man’s Sky has now been confirmed for PC. Taking the stage at the PC Gaming Show at E3, Hello Games founder Sean Murray to answer a long-running question over whether the …

The next Tony Hawk’s skating game has been given a September release date. The title will be hitting PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on September 29th, while the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 SKUs are yet to be dated, but are set for release this year. That’s according to a …

One of the most popular horror movie franchises of all time is getting its own virtual reality spin-off video game. Paranormal Activity VR is currently in development by VRWerx, a division of Beast Media Group set up to focus solely on virtual reality experiences. Details on the game are currently …

Publisher Perfect World has revealed Torchlight Mobile, a new entry in Runic Games’ popular action RPG franchise in the works for mobile platforms. Between Torchlight and its sequel, the series has seen release on PC, Mac, Linux and Xbox 360 to date – and now Runic and Perfect World are …

eSports organization Super League Gaming has announced plans for its upcoming summer tour, which will feature casual and competitive Minecraft sessions in movie theaters across US cities. Engadget reports on the freshly released schedule of events for Super League’s inaugural season, as it aims to capture the games arcade atmosphere …

Indie studio The Behemoth has announced its XBLA hit Castle Crashers will receive a remastered release for Xbox One and PC. According to a post on Behemoth’s blog, Castle Crashers Remastered will launch as a timed-exclusive for Xbox One this summer and arrive on PC via Steam sometime after that. …

Call of Duty is now in camp PlayStation, but developer Treyarch insists Xbox fans should not worry. Speaking after the announcement that PlayStation will be getting temporarily exclusive multiplayer maps – plus an exclusive Beta – Treyarch multiplayer lead Dan Bunting says that such news has helped generate some serious …

PlayStation Europe boss Jim Ryan says the backwards compatibility of Xbox One is a legitimate strategy in trying to upgrade 360 players. But he says that Sony will not be following the same tactic, as the firm is investing in other software updates to PS4. He also adds that – …