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Steam hosted more than ten million concurrent users for the first time in its history yesterday. Valve’s digital store smashed its previous record of 9.5m set just last month. The rush of new users has been spurred on by the latest summer sale on the marketplace that has seen deep …

Bethesda.net to serve as portal for all of Fallout publisher’s titles

Oculus Rift, Project Morpheus, Steam Vive – VR is a crowded market, but yet another new headset contender was revealed last night. Payday developer Starbreeze has announced Project StarVR which it describes as the IMAX of VR gaming” due to its increased field of view – 210 degrees of horizontal …

The sequel to Bethesda’s 2012 stealth-action title Dishonored will feature the choice of two sneaky protagonists. Set 15 years after the first game, Dishonored 2 marks the return of hero Corvo Attano. However, he will be joined by Emily Kaldwin, whom fans will remember as the child heir to the …

Valve beats previous record by 500,000 players

Publisher also working on Hearthstone-style Elder Scrolls title for iOS and Android

A remake of Final Fantasy VII for PlayStation 4 is once again apparently in the works. That’s according to Siliconera, who claims to have a learnt that a remake is in development to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the 1997 title. Of course, this means the game – if real …

Publisher acquires InfinitEye to build hardware

Bethesda dropped a major bomb during its first gameplay reveal for Fallout 4 – literally. Showing off the title at its pre-E3 press conference, the publisher revealed that the beginning of the game will take place before the series’ defining nuclear disaster, providing players a taste of both pre- and …

Bethesda is top of the charts for the first time in over a year with The Elder Scrolls Online. The firm’s last No.1 was Wolfenstein: The New Order, which debuted at No.1 for the week ending May 24th 2014. The Elder Scrolls Online came out last April for PC, with …