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EA has courted the esports crowd for a long time, with squad modes like Deathmatch, Rush and Obliteration offering a smaller scale vision of Battlefield’s 64 man squabbles more suited to competition.  Problem is, they’ve never really gained traction. Battlefield is a game about big fights: planes screaming overhead, tanks …

Steam is now restored in the area but the Early Access religious themed brawler has also been removed from the store in Malaysia

Sean Cleaver was an early adopter of The Long Dark. Now the game has come out of Early Access and Game Preview, he takes a look at the evolution of the game’s UI during the programme

According to a tweet from the publisher, the newly released game hit the player figure Saturday evening

The Golden Joystick Awards is among the most respected gaming events of the year. Not only is it the biggest publicly-voted awards show on the planet, peaking at a massive nine million votes in 2016, but it also acts as an important touchstone for the industry, marking the key trends …

Felix ‘PewDiePie’ Kjellberg, just weeks after claiming he was distancing himself from racist humour, has dropped the N word in a live stream. Kjellberg, owner of the most subscribed-to channel on Youtube, was playing PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds on a livestream when he yelled “What a f***ing n*****! Geez! Oh my god! …

PQube’s religious-themed 2D brawler Fight of the Gods has been causing chaos over in Malaysia. The game, which launched on Steam Early Access last week, sees religious and mythological figures such as Jesus, Moses, Odin, Athena and Anubis battling each other for supremacy as they fight an unknown evil. Firstly,the …

Sony’s PS4 exclusive Everybody’s Golf has shot straight to the top of the Japanese weekly charts, according to the latest data from Famitsu. It’s the first mainline entry in franchise in nearly five years, and its Week One sales of almost 101,000 soared straight past its PS3 predecessor, Hot Shots …

Co-founder of the studio tweeted the news after the influencer used the language this weekend on a live stream

Destiny 2 has gone straight in at No.1 in the UK weekly charts, making it the biggest launch of the year so far. However, sales were 58 per cent down on the original title from 2014, suggesting that more consumers may have shifted to digital purchases – especially considering that …