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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 …

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 …

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 …

‘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 …

Ukie’s former head of public affairs Theo Blackwell has been appointed by the Mayor of London as his new chief digital officer. The position, which is the first of its kind, will see Blackwell play a leading role in realising the Mayor’s ambition to make London the world’s smartest city, …

Havingworked on triple-A titles such as Destiny, Halo, and Red Dead Redemption, the team at Polyarc has a pretty impressive CV. But when co-founders Tam Armstrong, Chris Alderson and Danny Bulla left Bungie in 2015 to create their new studio, they decided to make an altogether different kind of game. …

Cuphead has been in development for a while now, some seven years in total, but it’s finally coming out on September 29th and so we took a chance to play the near-finished game at gamescom. The side-scrolling shooter hasn’t been a big genre for many a year, and the genre …

After a much-deserved break, Ubisoft is back this year with arguably its biggest franchise – yes, Far Cry is also huge but as it’s yet to have its own movie, I reckon Creed pips it. Assassin’s Creed Origins takes the series to its earliest setting yet, and while we’re still …

Splatoon 2 has become the first Switch title to break one million units in Japan, according to the latest figures from Famitsu. The title shifted another 38,642 units last week, taking it over the one million mark after just four weeks on sale. This means it’s taken the Switch five …

UK publisher Sold Out has announced a new Souls-like action RPG at gamescom, titled Immortal: Unchained. The new IP comes from Swedish developer Toadman Interactive and will be available digitally and at retail on the PS4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam in Q2 next year. The easiest way to …