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A new Overwatch patch in the Private Test Realm (PTR) has unveiled changes to Loot Boxes and highlights, in addition to the long awaited ability to customise player crosshairs.  The customisation option runs deep, with players able to customise crosshairs for each individual hero, meaning you can set Soldier76 up …

Activision started talking about the return of Crash Bandicoot as far back as 2011, and six years later it’s finally here, in the form of a remaster of 1996’s original Crash Bandicoot, 1997’s Cortex Strikes Back and 1998’s Warped, entitled the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy. These new versions support 4K and …

Get Even releases today with much praise for its soundtrack from critics. John Broomall talks to the games composer, Olivier Dereviere about his work on the game

Just three months since PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds launched on Steam’s early access program, it’s sold four million copies, Brendan ‘PlayerUnknown’ Greene has revealed on Twitter. The game released on March 23, and since then it’s only improved in popularity, sitting in the top five games live on Twitch and clinging onto …

Gamescom 2017 will be opened by none other than German Chancellor Angela Merkel. "We consider it a great honour and a sign of recognition that Chancellor Merkel will this year participate in the opening tour of gamescom," German Trade Association of Interactive Entertainment Software MD Felix Falk said. "The visit …

A new IP from a previously unknown developer is currently on track to be one of the best selling games of the year. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, which arrived with very little fanfare and virtually no marketing back in late March, has just passed the 4m copies sold barrier. It had initially …

The RNG lottery that is Overwatch Loot Boxes and Heartstone card packs is about to get a little kinder. Overwatch players have long lamented the frequency with which duplicates seem to crop up. Now game director Jeff Kaplan has said via an update video that the rate of duplicates is …

Hearthstone’s card packs are being revamped in the next expansion, with the system changing in a way that could cause substantial changes to the game’s economy. Hearthstone is the big earner in the card game space, with Superdata estimating Hearthstone made $394.6m in 2016. Most of this comes from the …

Publisher Paradox has reversed a number of price increases that were recently rolled out across its catalogue. The company last month explained that certain regions would incur an increase to make our prices match the purchasing power of those areas, as well as create a more equal price point for …

The accusation that Nintendo deliberately undersupplies its products is one the company has faced for years. However, like the majority of ‘false scarcity’ claims, it’s all very unlikely. And indeed, Nintendo of America’s senior director of corporate communications Charlie Scibetta has insisted to Ars Technica that there is nothing deliberate …