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There’s no bigger character on the UK high street than Mike Ashley. His acquisition of a significant holding of GAME shares today is the biggest story for UK games retail in years. Does it show the sector’s key retailer is simply undervalued or is this the beginning of a long-running …

Hot off the heels of Oculus’ temporary price cut to its Rift headset last week, a report surfaced on Friday that the company might also be preparing an even cheaper model of the Riftas a kind of budget successor. Currently code-named ‘Pacific’, the headset will allegedly bridge the gap between …

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has claimed another impressive sounding statistic, as it just achieved a record for the fourth-highest peak player count in Steam’s history. There were 382,561 players charging around the fiction Eastern European wilderness shooting at each other, which put the game 22,000 players above the peak set by Grand …

Samsung’s innovation and investment programme, Samsung Next, has announced its expansion to Europe with a first investment targeting tech start-ups. Raised back in January, the $150m fund (115m) will be used to back European start-ups working in augmented and virtual reality, the internet of things and artificial intelligence. The new …

Illinois College has announced it’ll be starting a competitive gaming team for League of Legends this September. The American university had to cancel a youth esports camp earlier this month due to a low number of sign ups however, according to the Jacksonville Courier, who broke the news, Illinois College esports …

Update: After halting production of the New 3DS in Japan, Nintendo has now confirmed that it has also ended production in North America and Europe. Speaking to Eurogamerand Polygon, representatives from Nintendo of Europe and Nintendo of America confirmed that the regular version of Nintendo’s New 3DS console has been …

Square Enix’s latest Final Fantasy remaster has gone straight in at No.1 in the UK weekly charts, finally dethroning Activision’s Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy. Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age is Square Enix’s first No.1 since Deus Ex: Mankind Divided topped the UK charts last summer, and together with …

Square Enix has finally given Kingdom Hearts 3 a vague release date, four years after its initial announcement. The publisher unveiled a new trailer at Disney’s fan convention D23 Expo this weekend and announced a 2018 release date. The trailer also tells us more about the setting of this new …

As the Birmingham-based VooFoo Studios celebrates its tenth anniversary, Katharine Byrne speaks with marketing and PR manager Sean Walsh (pictured right) about the growth of the studio and its recent move into publishing. How would you describe VooFoo’s journey over the last ten years? It’s safe to say the past …

Edge Case Games CEO, James Brooksby, talks about the impact of Brexit and poor air conditioning