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Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare has taken over the top spot on Steam’s weekly best sellers chart. The latest in Activision’s hit FPS franchise beat out runner-up Football Manager 2015, while popular indie game re-release The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth finished in third. Advanced Warfare’s Digital Pro Edition also made …

Telltale’s Game of Thrones will take place across six episodes, the development studio has revealed. The episode total is one more than Telltale’s other episodic games, such as The Walking Dead Season One and Season Two, Tales from the Borderlands and The Wolf Among Us. In a new tease on …

Re-Logic’s hit indie sandbox adventure game Terraria is set to launch on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One this week. Publisher 505 Games has announced the PS4 version of the title will release on November 11th, while the Xbox 360 version is scheduled for November 14th. The current-gen console editions boast …

The Crew is an ambitious racer which had a lot of work to do if it were to realise its potential. Develop spoke to Ahmed Boukhelifa about how they managed the key challenges in the game

More copies Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare were sold on PS4 than any other platform, although the overall Xbox performance bettered the PlayStation platforms. Videogamer reports that 35 per cent of the game’s week one sales in the UK were on PS4 and 32 per cent on Xbox One. However, …

One of the main targets of the #GamerGate hate campaign has said that ‘defeating’ the movement would be an historic victory for the games industry. The effect defeating Gamergate would have is incalculable, one of this field’s most historic moments, remembered as the moment games development said: ‘This is going …

MCV has teamed up with Xbox to look back at the legacy of one of the platform’s biggest franchises – Halo. As Halo: The Master Chief Collection brings remastered versions of Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Halo 3 and Halo 4 to the Xbox One, the first entry in the …

Characters in WoW studio's new FPS designed to make all players feel "equally represented"

Some may be calling it the worst first party console launch of all time, but that hasn’t stopped digital buyers flocking to DriveClub. The game has topped the PSN sales chart in Europe for October, topping previous chart-topper Minecraft and beating second place newcomer Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. It may …

Women are underrepresented in the sector, but what is turning more away from joining?