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NPD’s March data has revealed that Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands was the best-selling US game in March. The shooter enjoyed the best launch ever for a Ghost Recon title and the second best ever Tom Clancy launch, falling short only of The Division. In second place was Nintendo’s The Legend …

Ready At Dawn is to partner with the UK-based game server hosting specialist Multiplay to host its new physics-based arena brawler, Deformers, which releases today. Multiplay previously hosted Respawn’s Titanfall 2 and Tripwire Interactive’s Killing Floor 2 last year. Using its own hybrid cloud orchestration service, Multiplay’s technology allows Ready …

The global video games market is expected to grow by 7.8 per cent in 2017. That’s according to Newzoo’s Global Games Market Report, which predicts that total worldwide games revenue will reach $108.9bn this year. Digital games will account for $94.4bn of this. Mobile will be the most lucrative segment, …

The worldwide gaming audience for gaming video content will reach 665m in 2017, according to the latest report from SuperData, which is more than double the population of the US. The market research firm also expects the worldwide audience to keep growing, with viewership expanding by 21 per cent between …

As the industry’s most famous global game jam hits an important anniversary, Jem Alexander talks to co-founder Mike Kasprzak to find out how we got here, and where it’s heading in the future

Russian football club Spartak Moscow took a first tentative step into esports last September when they picked up FIFA player Sergei “KEFIR” Nikiforov, as part of the team. Now, their looking to expand into competitive Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, League of Legends and Dota 2 with the announcement made at a …

2017 is shaping up to be one of the best years in gaming history, but there’s something on the horizon that's getting Jem Alexander even more excited than the recent slew of fantastic games

What’s the betting that Chrono Trigger’s Wikipedia page has enjoyed record traffic in the last few hours? In an odd turn of events, The Washington Post has discovered that now departed Oculus founder Palmer Lucky has been surreptitiously donating to Donald Trump via shell companies with names relating to 1995 …

It seems as if the surprise arrival of Bayonetta on Steam has been a big success. PCGamesN reports that SteamSpy numbers suggest there are somewhere in the region of 114k owners of the game on Valve’s service. The Platinum developed action outing, which is published by Sega, was released on …

Samsung’s second-generation Gear VR headset is estimated to ship 6.7m units this year, says market research firm SuperData, putting it "neck-and-neck" with Google’s Daydream devices. SuperData predicts that Google’s open source Daydream headsets, including those made by third-party manufacturers, will ship 6.8m units this year, putting it just ahead of …