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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 – …

The creator of Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts has announced a completely new RPG franchise. "We are devoted to keep creating incredible new RPG titles," said Square Enix Holdings presidentYosuke Matsuda, introducing Project Setsuna. The game is said specifically to be a ‘console RPG’. "It’s not a spin-off or a …

Developer working on brand new IP Project Setsuna

The first gameplay footage of the upcoming Deus Ex Mankind Divided was shown at Square Enix’s E3 media briefing. In addition, developer Eids Montreal confirmed that the game would be coming to PS4, Xbox One and PC in ‘early’ 2016. Eidos Montreal also emphasised that choices will have more an …

The fifth Star Ocean title, Integrity and Faithlessness, is coming to PS4 next year. Originally unveiled in April, Square Enix took time during its E3 press conference to show off some of the title’s gameplay – although it was noted that many elements of the title are still temporary. This …

IO Interactive takes new approach to latest entry in series

Square Enix has provided some more details about the latest title in its Hitman franchise. Announced last night at Sony’s conference, the publisher gave us some more information about the new entry in the series, simply entitled Hitman. According to developer IO, new locations, hits and missions to be added …