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Content warning for discussions of sexual assault and violence Amra ‘Flitz’ Ricketts, a regular contributor to YouTube network Smosh Games, has left the collective after several accusations of sexual assault. “I wanted to let all of you know that effective immediately, I’m leaving Smosh Games,” Ricketts wrote on Twitter yesterday. …

The lack of releases last week led to the usual big titles fighting for the top spots of the charts this week. FIFA 18 ended up taking No.1 for the first time since its three consecutive weeks stay at the top, right after launch at the very end of September. …

Supercell and Space Ape Games brings the Helsinki event to the UK

By a long, long way

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Yogscast, the YouTube and livestream firm based in Bristol, raised a stunning £3.8m for charity with its annual ‘Jingle Jam’ livestream marathon in December. The event has now been running for six year, raising a total of £8.3m in total, with the festive event snowballing in size in recent years. …

Nintendo has announced that their Switch console, the portable/console hybrid that launched in March, is the fastest selling console ever in the United States, beating the sales of their Wii console, which exploded in popularity in the U.S upon launch. This comes from Business Wire, who put the sales of …

The latest data from ISFE and Ipsos Connect’s GameTrack consumer survey confirmed players’ appetite for retro gaming.  Having interviewed gamers from the UK, Germany, France and Spain, 49 per cent of them told Ipsos Connect that they like to go back to games they played when they were younger (as reported …

Capcom is pulling out all the stops for the lunch, sorry that should be launch, of Monster Hunter: World. Capcom’s UK team, working with PR agency Hope and Glory, is opening a free BBQ shack near London’s Southbank to mark the launch of the game – conveniently placing it just …

Mad Catz is dead, long live Mad Catz. The third party peripheral giant used up all nine lives and died in March last year, but is due to return under new management, showing a collection of products at CES 2018 next week ahead of a full relaunch. Mad Catz was …