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Ubisoft’s For Honor has debuted at No.1 in the UK All Formats Top 40. It’s the publisher’s first chart topper since The Division early last year. The game also boats the best new entry for a new IP since Sony’s No Man’s Sky. 57 per cent of sales went to …

There’s bad news for Xbox One fans hoping for a port of upcoming Square Enix RPG Nier Automata. The Express reports that the game’s producer Yosuke Saito told it that there are currently no plans to release on this platform”, adding: "The main reason for this is that the Japanese …

Comic Relief has announced a new deal with Twitch that will see the two pair up for a series of streams to raise money for the charity.  The event known as GAMERAISERS kicks off later today and sees celebrities and popular gamers head to Twitch’s offices in London to play …

The VR version of Fallout 4 will very much include the full game, and is already at the point where it can be played in its entirety. "Fallout [VR] is going great,” Bethesda Game Studios executive producer Todd Howard told Glixel. There’s a lot of work to be done, but …

The list of events that make up the London Games Festival have been announced and a surprise eSports competition is in the mix. The Digital Schoolhouse eSports Tournament Grand Final will take place on April 4th at the Gfinity Arena. 400 secondary schools and sixth forms have been competing online …

A Switch console that made it out into the wild far ahead of the machine’s official launch on March 3rd was stolen from a retailer. A NeoGaf user last week claimed to have received his Switch pre-order early from an unspecified stockist. These claims were backed up by a video …

One of the most contentious oddities from Nintendo’s online console network is being ditched for the upcoming launch of the Switch. Until now, digital purchases made Wii U and 3DS were locked to the hardware on which the transaction was carried out. Normally you would expect purchases to be linked …

Disgaea 5 Complete will launch on the Nintendo Switch on May 26th 2017, MCV can reveal. The Switch port of the PS4 title, Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance, was originally slated for Spring 2017, but NIS America has now confirmed to MCV that the game will be arriving in May. …

Nintendo 3DS sales are up in Japan after the successful launch of the latest title in Square Enix’s Dragon Quest Monsters series, according to the latest market data from Famitsu. Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 Professional went straight in at No.1 in Japan last week, shifting over 115,000 units. 3DS …

The Jim Henson Company isn't poised to start offering developers middleware. But the team there has been working on a game engine for several years, as part of an animation technique plump with potential across many disciplines.