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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 …

Tekken 7 has punched straight in at No.1 in the Japanese weekly chart, according to the latest figures from Famitsu, selling 54,319 copies in its first four days on sale. While not quite as successful as the PS3 launch of Tekken Tag Tournament 2 (which sold around 69,000, says Famitsu), …

Overwatch pro Daniel ‘Dafran’ Francesca has had a rough night. Last night on stream he admitted to deliberately throwing ranked games, while getting himself killed repeatedly, streaming animated porn over his gameplay and other general unsportsmanlike content. Francesca is known for two things: his tracking and aim talents, and his …

Today, E3 seems like the most monolithic of institutions, but it wasn’t ever thus. The first one I attended was the second ever, in 1996, and it had a very different cast of major players. I was taken out by the long-forgotten 7th Level – the only publisher to get …