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Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is the latest in a twenty five year old franchise which has watched countless other FPS IPs rise and fall over the years. Jem Alexander talks to Arcade Berg, senior game designer at MachineGames to find out how shooter design is evolving

Nearly 10 million games for the Sony VR headset have been sold over the last year

Evo, the fighting game community’s annual jolly in Las Vegas, has had its 2018 details revealed, showing that it will return to the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino from August 3 to August 5. This is a little later in the fighting game calendar, arriving a month later than it’s …

Virtus.pro have caused the biggest upset of EPICENTER 2017 after knocking out FaZe Clan, currently viewed as the world’s best CS:GO team, to reach the playoffs. Virtus.Pro went 2-1 against FaZe in a best of three matchup, coming back from behind after losing the first map, Mirage,16-2. While Virtus’ fate …

Lawbreakers has, in gamer parlance, completely bombed. Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, Arjan Brusse, COO & co-founder of Boss Key, says that part of the company’s aims for reviving the troubled shooter revolve around esports and a service model. Brusse says that esports success is “the ultimate dream to achieve” for the …

Update: 26/10: Blizzard continue to claim the bans aren’t the fault of third party software, although have unbanned several users, claiming that some bans were overturned upon “further review” of their PC security measures. This raises the important question of exactly what is throwing up false positives for Bungie’s big ol’ …

Echo Fox has revealed its Call of Duty roster just shy of WWII’s launch. The esports organisation has signed a well regarded team, picking up Brice Faccento, Renato ‘Saints’ Forza, Adam ‘Assault’ Garcia and Peirce ‘Gunless’ Hillman. Each of the quartet had a string of individual successes, making Echo Fox’s …

Following a petition for the government to address the legality of in-game loot boxes reaching over 10,000 signatures, the DCMS replies

PC hardware manufacturer Acer has gained majority control of the Star VR platform holder from partner Starbreeze. The pair launched the joint project in spring 2016, when both agreed to invest $25m between them. To date both have invested $10m, and now the remaining cash will come from Acer. In …

Valve has finally started offering the ability for consumers to purchase digital Steam Gift Cards. To do so, the sender must have a Steam account of their own – something that could actually be fairly limiting, as lots of mums and dads and especially grans and grandads may not have …