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After a healthy break last year to ‘re-examine’ the Assassin’s Creed franchise, Ubisoft is back with a new entry, developed by the team behind 2013’s critically-acclaimed Black Flag. Origins, which is hitting shelves tomorrow (October 27th), was confirmed at E3 after its setting leaked all the way back in January 2016.  …

The strong debut of the Ryzen CPU range has helped AMD post one of its strongest financial performances in some time. Revenues climbed by 26 per cent in its last reported quarter to $1.64bn, while net income hit $71m – compared to a $400+m loss posted the year before. The …

The initially successfully but eventually resented motion camera Kinect is no longer in production. Fast Company was first out of the gate with the news yesterday, and the report has now been confirmed by Microsoft. “Manufacturing for Kinect for Xbox One has ended but it is not the end of …

The popular 2D engine will now give access to the Xbox Live Creators Program and allow indie developers to publish games directly to Xbox and windows

Tamsin O’Luanaigh, talent director at developer nDreams gives us a look in to the VR studio and the perks on offer, including ‘Bacon Mondays’ and ‘Beer Fridays’ – that sounds nice to us!

A judging panel, including Brenda Romero, Harvey Elliott and Dave Ranyard, selects 5 newcomers from the world of games for the BAFTA honour

Both the Xbox 360 and Xbox One camera will no longer be produced but its sensor tech will be in Hololens

Dimension features a state of the art capture setup with the purpose of creating immersive MR imagery

Mitch ‘Krepo’ Voorspoels has been announced as the new head coach of Schalke 04’s League of Legends team, it was revealed Tuesday. Voorspoels is a retired League of Legends pro player, who became a professional caster with Riot Games in 2015. Voorspoels ducked out of casting after nude photos of …

QYOU Media has announced a new, daily, show of curated esports content entitled ‘Heads Up Daily’ which will be airing on Super Channel’s GINX Esports TV Canada. QYOU are best known as a curator of daily “Best-of-the-web” video for multiscreen distribution, and Heads up Daily will see a QYOU host …