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The game from UK-based Sports Interactive also topped the boxed PC charts again this week.

HTC Vive has announced its first price drop for its virtual reality headset. Starting from today, the HTC Vive will now cost just 599 in the UK, and all new purchases will come with a free trial to its Viveport subscription service, which lets consumers experience up to five titles …

F1, Codemasters and Gfinity team up to launch the Formula 1 esports Series for the latter part of 2017

Gfinity has announed today that it is the first official esports partner for Formula 1. Gfinity will be delivering the Formula 1 Esports Series, a first for Formula 1 that will see players from all over the world duke it out to prove themselves the best virtual F1 drivers in …

At an Nvidia event at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany,the developers of hit game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds have revealed an update that’ll integrate with Nvidia’s ShadowPlay Highlights system. The integration is available now, and should kick in the next time you boot up Steam, and will allow players to automatically capture their …

With sales numbers confirmed on last night's Xbox live stream, the game is now also the most popular non-Valve developed game on Steam

Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy has claimed its seventh week at No.1 in the weekly UK Top 40 charts, extending its record for the most No.1s in 2017. Sales fell by 23 per cent week-on-week, after remaining steady the week before. New releases Agents of Mayhem and City Skylines: PlayStation 4 …

Advertorial Content in conjunction with CDP Poland’s most famous gaming export is undoubtedly Geralt of Rivia, everyone’s favourite monster hunter in The Witcher series. But the game is just as popular, if not more so, in its home nation. There, the game is distributed by CDP, which makes sense as …

With the release of Uncharted: The Lost Legacy this coming week, Naughty Dog and Sony will discover if the franchise can work without main man Nathan Drake – instead pairing Chloe Frazer and Nadine Ross, both making their returns from previous titles. The new game has its own merchandise that …

The virtual reality headset drops $200 permanently but is still more than competitior Oculus