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Ubisoft has confirmed a pre-Christmas release date for tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege. The game will be released on PS4, Xbox One and PC worldwide on October 13th. It’s the first game in the series since 2008’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2. A number of editions have been announced – The …

The concluding chapter in CD Projekt Red’s trilogy of RPGs starring monster-slayer Geralt is days from release. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will land on PS4, Xbox One and PC next Tuesday, May 19th. This follows two delays for the game, the latest pushing it from February into this month, …

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Blizzard has announced the first official global tournament series for its MOBA Heroes of the Storm will take place later this year at BlizzCon 2015. The eSports competition will offer $1.2m in cash and prizes, with $200,000 of that pool designated for the winning team. Regional championships for North America, …

Superdata has released its latest monthly report on US digital game revenue, with the market showing year-over-year growth thanks to Grand Theft Auto V’s PC release. US digital revenue in April was up 15 per cent to $1.1bn, with Superdata crediting Take-Two and Rockstar’s PC port for driving the strong …

UPDATE: To be clear, if a console is suspended from Xbox Live for a violation of the Terms of Use, it can still be used offline," a Microsoft spokesperson told MCV, denying that any consoles had been ‘bricked’ remotely. "Microsoft enforcement action does not result in a console becoming unusable. …

Warner Bros’ video games adaptation of upcoming summer movie Jurassic World will arrive on the same day as the film. Both movie and game will hit UK shelves on June 12th. That release date applies to all platforms – PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U, PC, 3DS and …

What’s worse than not hitting your Kickstarter target? Thinking you have hit it, only to have that dream taken away. That’s exactly what happened to 2Awesome Studio whose shooter Dimension Drive was nearing its $25k with only minutes to spare. It seemed that success was to elude the group, only …

While the PS4’s security systems have not yet been cracked, some retailers in South America have found a working method of selling copied games for the machine. UOL Jogos reports, as translated by VG247, that a Brazilian retailer sold the site ten pirated PS4 games for BR300, which is around …

Fears that Konami may be eying a withdrawal from the console market appear to be accurate. "We will pursue mobile games aggressively," Konami CEO Hayakawa told Nikkei, as per a Neogaf translation which seems to loosely be backed up by Google’s own translation. Our main platform will be mobiles. "Gaming …