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Major League Gaming has partnered with a pair of Chinese corporations to build an eSports-dedicated arena near Hong Kong. The arena, which MLG described to onGamers as a true stadium and the first of its time,” will open in 2017 on Hengqin Island – a tourist city just a short …

Multiplay’s gaming festival Insomnia51 scored its biggest ever crowd across the Easter weekend. Over 20,000 gamers turned out for the first Insomnia event of 2014 and the highest attendance for Multiplay in its 17-year history. It smashed the figures for last year’s 50th anniversary event, which prompted the move to …

One of the biggest successes at the end of last year and the start of this one was not a triple-A title. It was not polished to a mirror sheen and had not benefitted from a huge marketing push. Rather it was an unfinished zombie game from a studio based …

The latest firmware update for PS4 is now rolling out. Amongst the additions it brings are video editing software SHAREfactory, he automated downloading of digital pre-orders, an increase to gameplay broadcast resolution and three setting for the DualShock 4 light bar – bright (default), mid and dim. There’s also the …

Western mobile game devs are being offered a new route into the lucrative Asian digital games market. Chorus Worldwide, founded by Shintaro Kanaoya, helps devs to fully localise their games for markets such as Japan and Korea. Its first two games are Alex Trowers’ Glyph Quest and Beartrap Games’ Sky …

… it’s only being released in Japanese arcades. It may not be the Left 4 Dead 3 that Valve fans were so badly hoping for, but there’s a new Left 4 Dead on the way nonetheless. It’s called Left 4 Dead: Survivors and is on the way to arcades courtesy …

A free edition of PS4 title DriveClub is still on track for PlayStation Plus subscribers, Sony has said. The game was finally given a second release date yesterday – October 10th in the UK – after slipping from the console’s launch line-up last November. And Sony has insisted to CVG …

Release will mark first official Xbox launch in country

Nintendo is offering a free game from a selection of ten to anyone who buys and registers a copy of Mario Kart 8 Limited Edition. The ten available titles are: – Nintendo Land– New Super Mario Bros. U– Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (Wii U version)– Game & Wario– Pikmin 3– …

Both 3DS and Vita saw decent upturns in unit sales last week thanks to two big new Top Ten releases, the latest Japanese sales data from Famitsu reveals. Bandai Namco’s new Vita title Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment debuted at No.1 in the Top Ten for the week ending April …