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FIFA YouTuber Craig ‘NepentheZ’ Douglas and business partner Dylan Rugby have pleaded guilty to charges of gambling they previously rejected, the BBC reported yesterday. After the BBC broke the news, Douglas took some time to explain the situation on Twitter (see below), saying he’ll upload a video in due course …

Koch Media has announced a new distribution partnership with Italian developer and publisher Milestone. The partnership will begin with the release of the next entry in Milestone’s MXGP franchise, MXGP3 – The Official Motocross Videogame, and will see Koch Media being the exclusive distributor of all Milestone’s 2017 titles. After …

Turtle Beach has announced a new partnership with VFL Wolfsburg that sees the headset manufacturer become the club’s official eSports audio partner.  The deal will see all of Wolfsburg’s eSports players use the Turtle Beach Elite Pro headset and will see the launch of a new gaming zone at the …

Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto has said the company’s internal development teams have "mastered" the Unreal Engine, according to VentureBeat. Speaking at a Q&A session with investors in Kyoto, Miyamoto reportedly spoke at length about how the team had been experimenting with the popular game engine and how the Switch had been …

Ubisoft has announced that the first free update from Rainbow Six Siege Year 2 is now available for Xbox One, PS4 and PC. Year 2 pass holders can download the Operation Velvet Shell update from today, but non-season pass holders will have to wait until February 14th before they can …

Braben: "It is creatively stimulating, already has a high worldwide profile, and is a perfect match for our expertise."

"We're very proud to be able to add this prominent collaboration to our publishing business,"

Fire Emblem Heroes, Nintendo’s latest mobile game, made $2.9m on its first day, according to mobile data firm Sensor Tower, after being downloaded over 2m times on Android and iOS. That’s still some way behind Nintendo’s first app, Super Mario Run, which Sensor Tower estimates grossed $8.4m in revenue on …

After nine years in development, D-Pad’s 2D pixel art platformer Owlboy finally released in November. Alex Calvin catches up with programmer Jo-Remi Madsen to find out about this adventure nearly a decade in the making

The wordy team-up heralds a new update for 2012 hit Spelltower and a new word game