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The figure comes from Microsoft's recent earnings call and takes in to account Xbox One, Mobile and Windows 10 users

Li ‘Vasilii’ Wei Jun, a professional League of Legends player for Newbee, has been fired from his team and banned from playing the game after he livestreamed himself assaulting his girlfriend. Wei Jun was streaming League of Legends last night and his stream captured his girlfriend criticising him for repeatedly …

EA has announced that it’s renaming the FIFA Interactive World Cup to the FIFA eWorld Cup for 2018. While they’ve taken a recognisable and interesting name and turned it something wholly more unfortunate, with a new name comes a new format and that’s also been revealed. For 2018, qualifying will occur …

Feedback from the public alpha test will lead to the team taking time to "iterate and evolve" core gameplay

Digital Extremes has announced the cancellation of their F2P competitive hero shooter The Amazing Eternals, euphemistically stating that they have “hit the pause button on development at this time.” Refunds are to be issues to those who paid into the founders program for a 72-hour period that starts today. Digital …

The physical version of Rocket League will now be distributed by Warner Bros. The new worldwide agreement will see a new physical version of the PS4, Xbox One and PC game arriving at some point in the future. "Rocket League has such wide appeal across all audiences, it’s no wonder …

All staff are safe and will be redeployed to work on Warframe and refunds will be issued

To the surprise of no one, Nvidia has finally announced its anticipated GTX 1070 Ti graphics card. The card will launch on November 2nd with an RRP of £419, which reflects the spot it will be occupying in Nvdia’s line-up between the vanilla 1070 and the 1080. The spec sheet …

Sources suggest that Amazon Game Studios’ hero brawler Breakaway has been canned. Probably.  Kotaku reported sources claiming that Breakaway, Amazon Game Studios’ highest profile project, announced on September 29, 2016, was essentially cancelled, with the game on indefinite hiatus and developers moving on to other projects within the company. Shortly …

Discovery remains one of Steam’s most significant unsolved puzzles. With the huge number of games hitting the service every week, the ability for potential buyers to find content relevant to them is crucial. Valve still believes its Curator program, which sees users following other users who maintain a list of …