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The team behind Far Cry 4 has started a fund to help the millions of people whose lives have been affected by the recent earthquake in Nepal. The developers will match donations up to the first $100,000. All funds will go to the Canadian Red Cross, which is mobilising a …

14.8 million consoles sold during the fiscal year ending March 31st

The brain is a muscle, right? Whether or not a court agrees with this could decide whether eSports takes another big step towards a perceived legitimacy as a sport. The Daily Dot reports that the English Bridge Union is currently contesting a Sport England’s decision to exclude bridge as a …

YoYo Games to showcase Windows 10 Universal Apps at Microsoft's Build 2015 conference

The European Court of Justice has backed government calls to exclude workers at stores with fewer than 20 employees from the right to redundancy consultation. Employees who lost their jobs in the Woolworths collapse of 2008 have been arguing through the courts that they are due a payout thanks to …

Developers can take advantage of Vive headset features including motion controls and laser-based tracking solution Lighthouse

PlayStation and Microsoft (and possibly Nintendo?) will this year be joined on the E3 stage by a conference dedicated solely to PC gaming. AMD has teamed up with PC Gamer to host the PC Gaming Show on June 16th, bringing with it speakers including Dean Hall and Cliff Bleszinski as …

URLs from Internet Archives can be used to embed playable titles

Valve has widened the ability for players to be banned on Steam by granting developers the right to direct player bans directly. Playing games should be fun,” Valve said. In order to ensure the best possible online multiplayer experience, Valve allows developers to implement their own systems that detect and …

A number of classic video games can now be played directly via Twitter. This isn’t due to any functionality that the social media platform has introduced, The Guardian reports, but is instead as a result of The Internet Archive’s release of 2,600 MS-DOS games. These were actually designed to e …