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This week, Facebook confirmed that the Oculus Go, a new, standalone VR headset, was on its way in early 2018. Priced at $199, the social giant said its low price should make VR more accessible than ever before. However, while analysts MCV spoke to were generally in agreement that Oculus Go …

Gfinity has hired EA veteran Shaun White as their head of communications. White previously had a similar role at Electronic Arts, but the during a restructure by the games company that saw regional teams across europe downsized, he left the company. “I had a fantastic 12 years at EA and …

As we reported on Wednesday, the SNES Mini was the main story of Japanese retail this week, out-selling both the Switch and the NES Mini in its first week, according to the latest figures from Famitsu. The NES Mini, by comparison, sold just 263,000 units in its first week on sale, …

Microsoft has announced three new Xbox One S bundles priced at just £229. Launching in the coming weeks, the UK will receive an Xbox One S Rocket League Blast-Off Bundle, an Xbox One S Starter Bundle and – for those that didn’t manage to get their hands on the limited edition …

Fnatic managed a fairytale comeback yesterday, earning themselves a spot in the quarterfinal of the League of Legends World Championship, coming from a 0-4 first week in Group B to win 4 successive matches, beating a triple tiebreak situation. Fnatic didn’t win a single game in their first week, and …

Riot’s founders, Brandon Beck and Marc Merill, are changing their roles so that they’re more in touch with active development at the company.  This was revealed in a blog post entitled ‘Founders’ Lane Swap’, where the pair talk about the early days of Riot Games, 11 years ago, mentioning that …

In this week’s media and marketing special issue, we talk to IGN’s co-founder and chief content officer Peer Schneider about the constantly evolving platforms it must harness to build its audience and how IGN became a video first business. As Facebook has become a key component of any modern marketing …

The developer who has been involved with almost every Bioware game since Jade Empire says its time to "move on"

The composer has become a regular feature in video game music and he returns to the horror genre to recreate the iconic sound of Friday 13th

The British Esports Association has appointed Ed Vaizey MP as Vice Chair. The government backed not-for-profit was set up to support grassroots esports in the UK. We reported this week that the organisation had joined up with UK games trade body UKIE, and they’ve been doing work with a number …