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Whoops. Konami’s Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain E3 trailer is available to watch online right now. Although likely not for long. The publisher has already begun trawling the internet and removing them, but for the time being there seems to be one source still hosting the short –which …

France base houses 171 employees

Develop travelled to Paris to discover how the MMO giant is maturing

If a headset and motion treadmill weren’t enough, now gamers can add gloves to their VR shopping list. Control VR is an Oculus Rift-ready device, which is designed to incorporate the hand movements of its users accurately in-game. The equipment consists of a chest harness, two gloves and sensors around …

Animation and modelling tool now available for $30 per month

Mirror’s Edge 2 looks odds on toe feature as part of EA’s slate for E3 this week. The Mirror’s Edge Facebook page has released a new image, which can be seen in full below, which while not carrying the full Mirror’s Edge 2 branding can surely only point to one …

Don’t Starve is headed to PlayStation Vita, developer Klei Entertainment has announced. Entitled Giant Edition, the handheld version will also include the Reign of Giants DLC that was released for PC in April. The studio also says that the Vita release will use touch controls to navigate menus. A release …

IGN has apologised for a story published over the weekend claiming that Sony had cancelled The Last Guardian. It originally quoted an internal source speaking to IGN Russia” who said that confirmation of the game’s cancellation was shared at an internal Sony meeting last week. However, Sony’s head of software …

A coded message hidden in a new trailer has teased the release date for Fable Anniversary. Developer Lionhead confirmed the title was headed to PC last week, but also revealed its release date was left somewhere in the trailer. That comes in the form of a binary message, which appears …

Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs has retained its place at the top of the UKIE GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. This is in spite of an 81 per cent decline in sales week-on-week – there was an 84 per cent drop in sales of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions, …