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The long-rumoured Assassin’s Creed Origins will arrive on October 27th, Microsoft announced at its E3 press conference this evening. As previously suggested, the next installment in Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed series will take place in Egypt and will see the franchise go right back to the very start of the Brotherhood’s …

Project Scorpio is due to be unveiled tonight at Microsoft’s E3 press conference, but while its specs point toward a 4K powerhouse targeted at the Microsoft super fan, there are lingering questions over whether the console will be able to break through to a wider audience. After all, if the …

Project Scorpio will finally get its first public showing at tonight’s Microsoft E3 press conference, and market research firm IHS Markit has predicted that Microsoft’s new machine will cost 429 in the UK. So far, other estimates have pegged the 4K console at around 499, making IHS’ estimation a little …

In just eight hours time, Microsoft will be unveiling its new Project Scorpio console to the worldwide games industry, and you can watch the action right here at MCV. Due to kick off at 10pm in the UK, Microsoft’s E3 press conference is set to be one of the highlights …

Over 30 minutes of EA’s Play event was dedicated to Star Wars Battlefront 2 this evening, giving players an in-depth look at what to expect when the next instalment in its online shooter franchise launches this November. After hundreds of players asked for the chance to play through a proper …

EA’s Battlefield 1 is set to get even bigger in 2017 with the addition of eight new maps by the end of the year, the publisher has announced at its EA Play event in LA. The first map, Nivelle Nights, is due this month, while the second, Prise de Tahure, …

EA unveiled the third title in its EA Originals series this evening, which is a brand-new IP from Hazelight, the creators of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. Entitled ‘A Way Out’, director and writer Josef Fares said this prison escape game will be a co-op title like no other. …

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The audio team at Frontier talk Develop through the recording and the mixing of the rollercoaster construction game

Andy Robson, the managing director of QA company Testology, has suggested in a Facebook post that Muslims should be forcibly removed from the UK. Kotaku UKreports that the now deleted post read (verbatim): I don’t give to monkeys about brexit or who’s voting as I don’t care because they are …