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Those who were hoping the recent release of Bayonetta on PC might be the start of a trend could be in for some good news. The Platinum Games action title made a surprise release on Steam earlier this month. Now an update to Bayonetta has dropped a Vanquish avatar into …

Sold Out is to partner with Frontier Developments to bring Planet Coaster and Elite Dangerous: Legendary Edition to retail. The boxed version of Planet Coaster will launch on May 23rd, while the boxed edition of Elite Dangerous will arrive on PS4 and Xbox One later this year. Planet Coaster first …

The 27 year career will be summed up with the aid of EDGE editor Nathan Brown at this years conference.

The schedule for Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ) has been announced, with speedrunning fans able to take a quick look at the schedule for the marathon event. Speedrunners from around the globe come to SGDQ to show off their skills, with viewers making donations to Doctors Without Borders and have …

Winners from both code and art tracks announced at events at Staffordshire University and University of Hertfordshire

The Halo Championship Series (HCS) Summer Preview playlist left fans disappointed, but the team behind the HCS have come forwards already, announcing a whole raft of changes for the summer season.  The new settings themselves were designed to counter critical feedback from players and fans from the last iteration, and …

Sean Cleaver speaks to Auro Technologies' Iwan De Kuijper about their 3D audio technology and it's use in The Farm 51's Get Even

The network of games professionals grows with over 100 new members for 2017

The Kiev Major, Valve’s second big tournament of the season has started, and you can currently watch it live, if you’re into that. It’s starting slow: the first two days are the qualifiers for the Swiss group, which will work to determine the main event brackets for when that gets …

The digital media landscape is seemingly cosmic in size and complexity, and so very tricky for us to picture in its entirety. But if I were to scale it down to something that could be analogised more clearly, it reminds me very much of Minecraft. An open-world, sandbox environment in …