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It’s been an impressive month for Japanese publisher Bandai Namco as it takes its third No.1 in as many weeks with The Witcher 3. The action RPG by CD Projekt RED smashed the Week One sell-through of Battlefield Hardline by 53 per cent, making it the biggest launch of the …

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The prequel to the Resident Evil series is launching on the new consoles in early 2016, complete with shiny new visuals. Resident Evil 0 was a GameCube exclusive when it launched in 2003, a Wii port arrived shortly after, but it has never left Nintendo platforms. Now the game will …

The Borderlands and BioShock publisher has started promotion for a new sci-fi release entitled Advent. 2K Games has opened a website for the title, which can be found here, featuring an advert for Advent Administration claiming the company is ‘building a brighter future’. The publisher is also teasing information on …

Oculus VR has announced its Oculus Connect 2 developer conference will take place this September. The second annual Oculus Connect will return to the Loews Hollywood Hotel from September 23-25, with registration for the event kicking off sometime next month. Keynote speakers will include Oculus CTO John Carmack, chief scientist …

Fire Emblem: Awakening is nearing – and possibly already surpassed – 2m sales, according to developer Intelligent Systems. VG247 points to a new promotional page for the upcoming Fire Emblem: If, which confirms the game has sold 1.79m copies as of December 2014. Five months have passed since the figure …

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has dethroned Grand Theft Auto V in Steam’s latest weekly top ten sellers chart. In fact, The Witcher as a franchise had itself a very nice week. Along with the first place finish for Witcher 3, CD Project Red’s release also filled the list with …

The release of F1 2015 has fallen back one month. Codemasters’ racing title will now be coming out on July 10th, falling out of its previously-announed June release window. This is still much earlier in the F1 racing season than last year’s F1 2014, which came out in October. Speaking …

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A 17-year-old member of hacker group Lizard Squad has pleaded guilty to 23 charges, including swatting. This is as reported by local Canadian news publication Tri-city News – and spotted by Ars Technica. The teenager can’t be identified because of his age, but has admitted to crimes including extortion, public …