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The BBC has announced that its various VR ventures are to be all brought under one roof. The new unit goes by the name of VR Hub. It will oversee its various projects including 360-degree video and VR add-ons to properties such as Planet Earth II. To coincide with the …

In one of the more unusual tie-ins we’ve seen this year, Activision has announced some Destiny 2-related functionality for Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant. Alexa will now respond to a variety of tasks with the prefix “Alexa, ask Ghost…” (Ghost being the game’s robotic AI assistant, for those not versed in …

Epic’s Fortnite: Battle Royale won at least one battle against high-profile rival PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds last month. New SuperData numbers show that Fortnight had a higher monthly active user count that PUBG throughout for October, thanks in no small part to the fact that it’s available on more platforms and is …

Japanese publisher Sega has lowered both its sales and profit forecasts for the current financial year. It had initially predicted full-year net sales of $3.38bn and profits of $98.1m. However, those numbered have been revised down to $2.94bn and $44.6m respectively – those are drops of 13 per cent and …

It turns out that Chinese gaming giant Tencent has bigger plans for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds on mobile than we first thought. Analyst Daniel Ahmad says that the company has not one but two PUBG games in development. The first is called PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds: Army Attack and is being developed by Timi …

Redditor Kensgold feels unable to buy Battlefront 2 due to in-game lootbox system

Whitta returns to Telltale Series he helped create

Satya Nadella addresses Microsoft's annual shareholders meeting in Wednesday

Defending champion Du ‘NuckleDu’ Dang has bowed out of the Capcom Cup 2017, a surprising absence by the dominating Street Fighter V player. Dang earned automatic qualification to the Capcom Cup final after winning a $230,000 prize for his win last year but would also have qualified on his performance …