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Despite having just last week unveiled its RX500 series of graphics cards, AMD has confirmed that its next-generation GPUs will arrive this quarter. Wccftech reports that the Vega cards, which will be the first to offer AMD’s much hyped new graphics architecture, will be launched by June at the latest. …

Some will tell you VR will not only bring back the arcade, but reinvent eSports on doing so. Will Freeman asks the VRcade team to make their case for the dawn of ‘v-sports’

A notoriously shoddy but undeniably appealingly quirky Sega CD game that uses Full Motion Video (FMV) is getting a surprise re-release on PS4 and Xbox One. Night Trap was first released in 1992 and was notable for utilising Sega’s then flashy new disc format to offer actual video footage in-game. …

20 year-old Adam Mudd has been sentenced to two years in jail for creating a hacking program that was responsible for downing Sony and Microsoft’s networks. The Guardian reports that Mudd, who was 16 at the time, created a program called Titanium Stresser that was designed to shut down services …

The UK’s leading games events company Multiplay Events has launched a brand-new hardware rental arm to help other organisations get the kit they need to put on large-scale events. Dubbed Multiplay Rentals, the company now offers a full range of services to facilitate large scale events, including hardware rental and …

There’s a greater range of hardware and operating system platforms than ever before. That means more opportunity, and more complications, for games publishers. We catch up with a handful of thoroughly modern publishers working across a range of digital and physical formats to ask them what they think of the …

Japanese developer and middleware company return to the game engine market with the open source C# based solution

Julian Gallop is crowdfunding what is described as a spiritual successor to his 1994 strategy hit X-COM. Phoenix Point is looking for $500km on Fig, and has already reached almost $296 with over 40 days left of its funding drive. The game is pencilled in for a Q4 2018 launch …

The saga of Vivendi’s encroaching interest in French publisher Ubisoft could be on the verge of reaching a head with a full acquisition push. Reuters reports that Vivendi plans to address investor concerns about its strategies and financial results by increasing its video game and advertising presence. Ubisoft and ad …

Blizzard is holding a livestream event this evening, streaming Heroes of the Storm ahead of the release of its 2.0 update. The livestream (watch here) will have several exciting reveals if you’ve got the HOTS for Blizzard’s MOBA, with a walkthrough of the new update, a new hero reveal and …