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Starbreeze has signed a publishing deal with Double Fine for Psychonauts 2, the company announced this morning. Starbreeze will be investing $8m to bring the game to PC and console via digital distribution. Psychonauts 2 was successfully funded through crowd-funding last year on Fig, and Starbreeze says it will be …

Fnatic has announced that it has traded Joakim “disco doplan” Gidetun and Simon “twist” Eliasson to GODSENT and will get Jesper “JW” Wecksell, Robin “flusha” Rönnquist in return.  This means that the Major winning team from late 2015 and early 2016 is now back on Fnatic. For a long time …

Valve has removed Dust2 from the active map pool in CS:GO, meaning it will no longer be played at a pro level.  The latest patch to CS:GO has re added Inferno to the active map pool, after almost a year out of rotation that involved a significant rework. It’s addition …

Nintendo has announced it’s bringing the Switch to three UK cities before its official launch on March 3rd. This month, would-be Switch players will be able to go hands on with Nintendo’s new console between February 10th and February 26th in London, Birmingham and Manchester. You can see the full …

Property Week has reported that HMV is to close its flagship store on Oxford Street after the building’s landlords have allegedly commenced negotiations to surrender the lease through agents at Savills. However, MCV has learned that there is "no agreement in place" to close the Oxford Street store, according to …

The PS4 will soon support external hard drives, Sony announced today. In the console’s next 4.50 software update (code-named Sasuke), Sony said PS4 users will be able to upgrade their machine’s storage even further by plugging in a USB 3.0 HDD. The update will allow for external HDDs up to …

Blizzard has announced the Hearthstone Global Games, a team based competition with $300,000 on the line.  48 nations will compete in the event, each fielding a team of four players from that country. Teams will play best of five matches against other nations online, with each player bringing two decks …

Activision has finally given Australia some love by announcing two Call of Duty World League events that will take place in Sydney.  Both events feature a $30,000 prize pool and up to 64 teams. They will be held at the ESL Studios in Sydney and will only be open to …

Echo Fox has forfeited its spot in the North American division of the ESL Pro League after failing to submit a roster for the upcoming season.  The team disbanded its CS:GO team late last year, leaving just two players on its roster currently. Obviously without a team of five they …

UPDATED:Square Enix has confirmed that the upcoming story update to Final Fantasy XV’s controversial thirteeth chapter will be available to download as a free update on March 28th. Director Hajime Tabata made the announcement during the team’s latest Active Time Report livestream. More details about what the update entails can …