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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 …

The idea of shipping video games on disc will be completely dead in around a decade. That’s according to Take-Two president Karl Slatoff, who told the Credit Suisse Technology Conference that a purely digital future will arrive before too long. "I think over the long-term, it will be 100 per …

Session, a game that very much draws inspiration from EA’s much-loved Skate series, has smashed its Kickstarter target in just four days. Skate 3 was famously republished and pushed back out to retail four years after its initial release after a starring role in a number of PewDiePie videos. Now …

The motivations behind the decision to close Visceral Games and kill its Star Wars title are again in the spotlight. Speaking at the Credit Suisse Conference, EA CFO Blake Jorgensen said, as per Games Industry: “As we kept reviewing the game, it continued to look like a style of gaming, …

""I just can't predict whether that's five years, 10 years, or 20 years. It's probably less than 20 and maybe more than five, but I think it ultimately gets there. "

A deactivated cosmetics system has been found hidden away in the PC version of Star Wars Battlefront 2. A Redditor has found a currently inaccessible ‘change appearance’ option that allows various characters to rotate between as assortment of skins. The discovery itself would be of limited interest were it not …

Destiny 2 developer Bungie has pledged to be more open with fans after a period of growing unrest among its playerbase. The developer last week admitted that the game was artificially suppressing the amount of XP gained in some activities. This was discovered after fans became suspicious that the rate …

First release, an unnamed RPG with card elements, due in 2018

The virtual land isn't yet in the game, but will be added at a later date

As we recently announced, Esports Pro is being merged into MCV as NewBay evolves all of its games properties into a single, specialist brand. This change will mean greater resources and higher-quality esports content. However, change can be scary, and we want to make you aware of a few things …