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Quake Champions full release will be made available on Steam, a developer Q&A has revealed, meaning that even though the beta is only playable via the Bethesda.net app, the game will launch on Steam, opening it up to many more competitive players on PC.  This is a big deal, as …

Fast food giant McDonalds last week announced a partnership with Blizzard to plaster their trademark Golden Arches across the Starcraft II World Championship Series in Australia. Mcdonald’s will have naming rights, branding, content integration and on the ground content activations, although the specific format that activation will take hasn’t yet …

New Modigliani exhibition opens in November with an integrated VR experience.

Vehicular MOBA Heavy Metal Machines has launched several new mods and features, chief among this is its first ever Esports European Tournament, which will see €10,000 up for grabs for lucky teams. This tournament has been unveiled by Brazilian developers Hoplon, who we spoke to about the process of designing …

Vivendi’s streaming video service Dailymotion is backing away from the YouTube and Switch market with a shift to premium video. The former Yahoo acquisition target has signed up with Vice, Universal Music (which is also owned by Vivendi) and CNN to create what it described as high quality content targeting …

SK Gaming has beaten FaZe Clan in the ECS Season Three finals in London, notching up their second LAN victory in as many weeks during their European summer holiday. SK beat out Astralis in a drawn-out match to get to the finals, while Cloud9 fell to FaZe Clan to give them …

The higher-than-expected number of players who tried Resident Evil VII in VR was a surprise to Sony and has shaped its PS4 strategy. That appears to be the message from PlayStation’s global sales and marketing boss Jim Ryan, who told Games Industry: We had no idea that VR would play …

Take-Two has softened its stance opposing Grand Theft Auto V modding tool Open IV. In a move that looks very much as if it was spurred by the intervention of Rockstar, Open IV is now back online. Furthermore, the developer has openly backed creative tools designed strictly for offline use. …

As has been widely rumoured, Activision is giving a standalone release to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered. However, the game will initially be released only for PS4. This June 27th release – which is tomorrow, incidentally – will be followed by a release on Xbox and PC at some …