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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds will be getting a Ruger Mini-14 in its update next week. When we spoke to Brendan ‘PlayerUnknown’ Greene at Gamescom last week, he said the next update would have not one but two new weapons, and they’d be in the map instead of in care packages. While it’s …

The fund, designed to help armed-forces veterans find employment has raised over $25m in the US since 2009

It’s been a whirlwind month for George ‘King George’ Kassa. Last month, Kassa and his team departed Vertical Gaming after repeated financial disputes, where the team claimed “non-stop lying” had dissolved the relationship between the team and the organisations co-founder. The team were planning to compete at Gamescom as an …

Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime said the platform holder is focused on having enough Switch stock this Christmas but couldn’t confirm it would actually be the case. Talking at Variety’s Entertainment and Technology Summit yesterday, he was asked about the firm’s goal to sell 10m units of the Switch …

Nintendo is closing down another of its social experiments, Miiverse. It’s the latest in a long history of abandoned social functions in both home console and handhelds. Jem Alexander ponders whether any social gimmicks can cross console generations and, if so, which

State of the art venue to host Overwatch, Hearthstone and act as WoW Arena venue before BlizzCon finals

After huge success in the US, Activision is bringing its Call of Duty Endowment programme to the UK. Funded by an in-game purchase in Call of Duty: Black Ops III, the charity will provide grants to help UK armed-forces veterans find ‘high-quality’ employment. For Call of Duty players, the Call …

Blizzard Entertainment has announced Thursday that it’s creating an esports arena near to the company’s headquarters in Burbank, California. According to a press release the stadium, entitled Blizzard Arena Los Angeles, is due to host a “steady schedule” of live events, to include Hearthstone’s championship tour, the Overwatch league and …

As the physical edition of Daedalic’s point-and-click adventure The Pillars of the Earth hits shelves today (September 8th), CEO Carsten Fichtelmann (pictured below) has told MCV he hopes the PS4 and Xbox One versions of the game will be a hit with players despite the genre being a difficult sell …

The remaster/re-release of the game due to come to Nintendo Switch as well as PS4 and Xbox One.