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After an unexpected leak last month, Mario+Rabbids: Battle Kingdom has been officially announced at Ubisoft’s E3 press conference, with none other than Miyamoto himself coming out on stage to introduce it. Rather than making another ‘jump game’, Miyamoto challenged Ubisoft to create a Mario game that’s "never been made before" …

Brendan Greene, the PlayerUnknown behind PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, has just taken to the stage to show off upcoming changes to the game. Stability and server performance improvements are promised, but Greene also showed off a few big changes in the form of weather — with vision impairing fog to hamper snipers …

Microsoft’s customisable controller service, Xbox Design Labs, has finally arrived in the UK, the platform holder announced on Twitter today. The service, which lets users choose the colour of individual components to create their own bespoke controller, originally launched in the US last year, with pre-orders opening in June and …

Last night Microsoft announced it was bringing crossplay functionality to Minecraft, allowing gamers to play together and use their DLC purchases and save files across a multitude of different platforms.No longer will Minecraft be separated into various ‘Editions’, Microsoft said. Starting this summer, Minecraft will simply be known as Minecraft. …

Dota 2 has become the first esport to hand out over $100m in prize money. That’s the figure according to EsportsEarnings.com, who say that $100m+ has been given out to 1952 players over 741 tournaments. In second place is League of Legends, which has handed out $41m+ over 1866 tournaments. …

Sean Cleaver speaks to ID@XBOX director Chris Charla and regional lead Agostino Simonetta

Bethesda have announced The Quake World Championships, a huge esports tournament for the publisher’s forthcoming Quake Champions. Announced during the Bethesda E3 2017 press conference, the tournament is set to kick off in June, with competitors around the world fighting to qualify for a final event during QuakeCon in Dallas, …

ELEAGUE have announced a $250,000 Injustice 2 World Championship this October, which will air on cable network TBS in the US in addition to being livestreamed on Twitch. The tournament, announced during an E3 stream on Sunday, will comprise an open qualifier, which will take place on October 21 and …

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A third entry in the cult Metro franchise was last night confirmed at E3. Metro Exodus is due for release on PS4, Xbox One and PC in 2018. Set a quarter of a century after Earth has been ravaged by nuclear war, the few thousand survivors who persist scrabble for …