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Christmas 2017 was not as jolly as the previous one for Sony. The platform holder announced that it has sold 5.9m PS4 consoles worldwide between the end of November and December 31st 2017. This figure include both PS4 and PS4 Pro consoles and is a slight decrease compared to last year’s …

HTC Vive almost came out of nowhere in the VR headset race to take a hefty market share – in part due to its ambitious room-based tracking technology. The company is now further pushing its technical advantage over the competing Oculus Rift with a new Vive Pro headset and Vive …

Rebellion has started the year off by announcing the acquisition of Leamington Spa based studio Radiant Worlds. The acquisition went ahead for an unknown sum. Radiant Worlds was founded in 2013 will be renamed as Rebellion Warwick, transitioning onto Rebellion’s current projects, like the upcoming 1930’s title Strange Brigade. The studio …

The inaugural season of the Overwatch League is nearly here, and Blizzard has already announced that the first day is now officially sold out. The Overwatch League’s Twitter account announced the news late on Sunday night, revealing that they’d sold out for the day one match between San Francisco Shock …

In a statement to Nikkei, Sony said it expected to bring 130 more titles to its PlayStation VR headset by the end of 2018. As translated by Siliconera, the Japanese firm said that its library of PSVR games will increase from 150 to 280 by the end of the year, …

Covers financing for games projects alongside info on tax relief, equity investment and crowdfunding

The first big gaming announcement of this year’s CES really is Big. There’s nothing the PC industry likes more than a new product standard and Nvidia has created the mother-of-all-displays with its new Big Format Gaming Display (or BFGD in an apparent nod to the legendary DOOM weapon). The first …

Fortnite developer apologises for resulting service issues

There’s a lot of things changing at the MCV awards this year – making them more competitive, more rigorous and also more fun – which means we’re making some significant changes to the big evening itself. That means we are introducing a new event format. Listening to feedback we’ve made …