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The Nintendo Switch has been priced and dated, and though games retail is positive about the machine itself and its first year line-up, the £280 price-point has proved divisive.  Speaking to MCV, execs at UK stores point to a premium feel and build for Nintendo’s new machine, and praise its …

This week, we talk to UK retailers about Nintendo’s new console, take a look at the hardware, discuss the Switch’s games both at launch and beyond, and share what the games industry thinks about what could be one of the most disruptive consoles the industry’s ever seen. We also speak …

The ever-decreasing cost of Xbox One consoles has caused Microsoft’s gaming revenue to fall by 3 per cent year-on-year, the company revealed in its Fiscal Q2 2017 report. Xbox revenue reached $3.595bn in Microsoft’s fiscal Q2 2017 report, with the company stating that lower Xbox console pricing was the main …

Ginx eSports TV has announced that it will be making another series of The First Hour, a show that takes a look at the first hour of gameplay from a game.  The new series will be made up of 24 episodes, each an hour long, and will see hosts Adam …

The first special Dota 2 event in quite some time has gone live and give players a chance to win a new Baby Roshan courier.  The Dark Moon event adds a new game mode that sees a team of five players try to fend off waves of increasingly hard enemies, …

15-20 staff throughout the company hit with redundancy in restructuring

In an interview with BBC newsbeat at his new studio

US indie games publisher Versus Evil has announced its very first charity streaming event. Dubbed the Versus Evil Charity Clash, streamers will be representing one of four main charities and will go head to head with other players in Tim Conkling’s upcoming turn-based strategy game, Antihero. The event will take …

The US digital console market grew 16 per cent year-on-year in December 2016, compared with a 16 per cent drop year-on-year at US retail during the same period. That’s according to the latest report from data research firm SuperData. December was the worst month in two decades for the US console …

Square Enix and Marvel have announced a new multi-game partnership that will kick off with a project surrounding The Avengers. Both companies announced the partnership on social media this afternoon, releasing a teaser trailer (below) along with the hash-tag #Reassemble. The multi-year, multi-game licensing agreement will see games being developed …