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Sonic Mania hits shelves in a couple of weeks in a shiny collector’s edition for PS4, Xbox One and Switch, exclusive to Amazon. Of course, there’s also a digital version for players who only want to enjoy the game without the collectibles. Either way, to celebrate the blue blur’s return, …

Valve has always been famous for ‘Valve Time’, the glacial pace at which the company behind Steam and countless games actually release things. The company are famous for it, but the development team behind Dota 2 have made it clear that they want to get past the image and increase …

Developer tweets the gaming milestone following news of fresh content for the sandbox game

Another day, another No.1 for the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy. For its second month on shelves, Activision’s Crash Bandicoot collection was the best-selling title of the PS4 Store in July, both in the European charts and US rankings. In June, the N. Sane Trilogy managed to take the top …

Activision Blizzard has posted "better than expected" financial results forQ2 2017.Net revenue hit $1.63bn for the quarter ending June 30th, rising 4 per cent year-on-year. Digital channels, meanwhile, grew 15 per cent year-on-year to reach $1.31bn. That said, console sales for Q2 were actually down 13 per cent year-on-year for …

Four french localisation companies join with the increasingly large technical services provider

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 …