The Xbox One X has become the fastest selling Xbox pre-order in Microsoft’s history, according to the platform holder. Pre-orders opened on Sunday August 20th just before Gamescom, and the Project Scorpio launch edition of the console is already sold out in several territories, says Microsoft. Another round of pre-orders …
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Code Wizards announced as key sponsor of MCV/DEVELOP Awards 2026
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[Event news] Games Aid Charity Poker Tournament at Develop: Brighton 2026
Come and join 70 of your industry peers for some good old-fashioned Texas Hold 'Em fun. Bask in the …
[Event News] Games Growth Summit adds to speaker line-up with two more veterans
Ann Hurley and Gina Jackson OBE are joining the lineup for the Games Growth Summit. Two highly respe…
[Event news] Indie Showcase submissions open
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Uncharted: The Lost Legacy and F1 2017 dethrone Crash Bandicoot in UK charts
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy has gone straight in at No.1 in the UK weekly charts, becoming the sixth PlayStation exclusive title to debut at the top spot so far this year. Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy, meanwhile, fell to No.3 after sales declined by 10 per cent week-on-week, allowing Codemasters’ F1 …
Read More »Rogue get into competitive Destiny 2 ahead of September 6 launch
Esports organisation Rogue has become the first organisation to hire professional Destiny players for Destiny 2. The team announced on Sunday that they had picked up six competitive Destiny players and streamers, ’Dr0ptacularr’, ‘DrLupo’, ‘Flankxr’, ‘Lil Sonic’, ‘Extremlzm’, and ‘WaRbulletproof’. The decision is somewhat noteworthy because there’s not much of …
Read More »South Korean esports outfit Lunatic Hai to field teams for Battlegrounds and CS:GO
Lunatic-Hai, a South Korean esports outfit best known as two-time back-to-back OGN Overwatch Apex winners, has announced in a post on Facebook that they will be fielding teams in CS:GO and PUBG. The announcement was in Korean, but has been translated by Slingshot Esports. In the announcement, Lunatic Hai state: …
Read More »Gareth ‘GaRpy’ Marshall and Aaron-Anton ‘Hell’ Jones from Myztro talk Quake, the universe and everything
While most of the industry is recovering from Gamescom, Myztro are just warming up. The UK-based Quake Champions team are competing at Quakecon this weekend. Before they took off, we took the opportunity to ask Gareth ‘GaRpy’ Marshall and Aaron-Anton ‘Hell’ Jones about how they got their start in esports, …
Read More »GAMESCOM 2017: Two new weapons are coming to Battlegrounds, map-specific weapons could be coming in the future
Talking to Esports Pro today at Gamescom, Brendan ‘PlayerUnknown’ Greene has confirmed that the next big content drop for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds will bring not one but two new weapons to the game. While Greene wouldn’t reveal which exact weapons would be available for players to kill each other with, but …
Read More »Overwatch’s 1.15 patch is on the PTR, includes reworks for Mercy and D.Va
Overwatch’s 1.15 patch is now on the private test realm (PTR), and brings total reworks of both Mercy and D.Va, in addition to several other small tweaks. It’s also believed that escort map Junkertown is coming with this patch, although it hasn’t been put into the PTR yet. Still, with …
Read More »Big changes are coming to Rainbow Six Siege’s casual and ranked map rotation
Ubisoft are making another big change to the world of Rainbow Six Siege, with several maps being taken out of the rotation for both ranked and casual matches. The ranked rotation will contain the same nine matches as are contained in the competitive season’s playlist, with season three’s map pool …
Read More »Vampyr: Fangs for the memories
Vampyr is the new project of Life is Strange developer Dontnod, and while it’s very much an action-adventure RPG, you can definitely feel the Dontnod touch. This isn’t your traditional RPG, after all, as who and how many people you decide to kill will directly impact the story and other …
Read More »GAMESCOM 2017: Team from open qualifiers emerge as victors at PUBG third-person Duo’s tournament
‘Suisse my Baguette’ has won the $30,000 grand prize from PUBG’s Gamescom Invitational third-person Duo’s tournament, emerging victorious over professional teams like Cloud9, TSM, and Liquid to clutch a win. Unfortunately, the series was marred by bizarre play, with a circle falling over water that saw a number of teams …
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Code Wizards announced as key sponsor of MCV/DEVELOP Awards 2026
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