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Mojang has partnered with UK publishing house Egmont Publishing to create the first official Minecraft magazine, which launches this week. The 60-page launch issue, which hit stores on Tuesday, is priced at 4.99 and will have a monthly onsale period. Inside, readers will find 14 pages of hints and tips …

Indie dev Byron Atkinson-Jones may have made a mistake. One errant thought now leadshim on a year-long journey towards his first charity stand-up performance. If only for the lols.

Bethesda has widened the reach of its official online merchandise store with the launch of a new store for Europe. Simply entitled the Bethesda Store Europe, the new online portal offers a wide range of licensed merchandise from across its portfolio of games, including Doom, Fallout, Dishonored, The Elder Scrolls, …

Ubisoft is testing out upgraded servers for Rainbow Six Siege on the game’s Technical Test Servers. This comes from a Reddit post from community manager Matt Shotcha. “During the last two months we redesigned our systems to support a different scheme of CPU partitioning over the new generation of game …

The former COO and president of Sega Europe joins the Chinese company to oversee international partnerships

PUBG got a fourth monthly update today, and they’ve shown they’re quite the cartographers, making several changes to the map. Not the map you run around on, mind. The map you look at to determine where you’re going. The map used to be delightfully vague, with the community picking their own …

ESL One Hamburg has been confirmed as Valve’s next official Dota 2 major. The event has previously been hosted in Frankfurt’s Commerzbank Arena for the last three years, but this year will be at the Barclaycard Arena in Hamburg, inviting the world’s best Dota 2 teams to playoffs on October …

Rocket League just debuted a new banning system to make sure it’s a harassment-free place,” creator Psyonix just revealed. This follows the developer’s announcement that Rocket League has just reached an impressive 34m players worldwide. Announced by Rocket League’s community manager Devin Connors in a blog post, the new ban …

Former Miniclip and Atari man joins the company and oversee the five regional studios and look for new IPs with franchise potential

Multiplayer slasher title Friday the 13th just reached a new milestone, despite its difficult launch. Publisher Gun Media announced that sales for the game just reached 1.8m copies. That’s in two months since Friday the 13th – The Game launched at the end of May on PS4, Xbox One and …