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Sony’s global game development chief Shawn Layden has confirmed the company’s sold more than one million PlayStation VR units worldwide, according to a new interview with Time. The virtual reality headset, which launched globally last November, reached 90,000 units in February, but limited supply has constrained sales ever since Day …

Rainbow Six Siege’s 2.2.1 update is now on the technical test servers ahead of its launch tomorrow, and the big change is that you can’t shoot the GSG operators in the headgear anymore. It’s part of a two-step hitbox restructuring, with Ubisoft revealing in a blog post on their website …

What a difference five years makes. When PCGamesN first launched in June 2012, traffic figures were “just dreadful,” creative director Tim Edwards (pictured right, with editorial director Joel Gregory) tells MCV.  “It was really hard, like, just, incredibly hard,” he says. “We had a pretty good E3, but then the …

Interview with Time magazine provides updated figure from the 900,000 in February

Announcement on twitter with the tag line 'For All The Players'

Rocket League is celebrating its second birthday in July. Don’t worry if you forget to get them anything, because the car-based sports-em-up has you covered, with it’s anniversary event bringing a host of new features. Firstly the event, launching on July 5, brings an end to Competitive Season 4 as …

Overwatch players are in a sombre mood after the game’s Anniversary patch seems to have worsened an issue with character Sombra’s translocator. Worse, while Blizzard know it’s happening, the company hasn’t yet worked out how it’s happening, or how to fix it. A post on the Battle.net forums by a …

Ninjas in Pyjamas has announced that they’re stepping away from Dota 2 for the second time, only a few months after acquiring what remained of Escape Gaming as their roster in January 2017. NiP’s team failed to make a big impact in Valve’s MOBA, failing to qualify for March’s Kiev …

Media Molecule HR Manager, Joanna Mabey discusses the recruitment needs of a small development team, triple-A development and what to do if you want to become a ‘Molecule’

We’ve been told for ages that magazines aren’t relevant anymore, that the internet is killing print. And yet, despite all the odds, games magazines are still here, fighting against the online invaders. Whether it’s Edge, Retro Gamer, GamesMaster, GamesTM, or even MCV, every one of them has been challenging the …