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Ubisoft has revealed more details about For Honor’s upcoming closed beta. The beta will take place between January 26th and January 29th across PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC, and players on all platforms will be able to experience the game’s 4v4 multiplayer action for the first time. Players will …

EA continues to distance itself from the giant games show

Fox Broadcasting Company has announced it’s creating a new gaming division that will oversee VR, AR and video game productions across the studio’s TV and film output. Dubbed FoxNext, the division will be headed up by Salil Mehta, who will act as president. Mehta was most recently president of content …

Epsilon will not be competing at the Gfinity London Call of Duty World League event after the team failed to send an email.  Tournament organisers required teams that met the pro points requirements to qualify for the event, to send them roster details by midnight on January 17th. Epsilon apparently …

EA has announced it will renew its EA Play event at E3 this year. Like last year, it will replace the publisher’s traditional press conference and will take place just a few days before E3, between June 10th and June 12th. This year’s EA Play will be taking place at …

Capcom has revealed that it will announce the first details of the 2017 Capcom Pro Tour at the end of February.  “Full details on #CPT2017 will be released in late February on http://capcomprotour.com,” read a tweet from the Capcom Fighters account. “In the interest of helping players plan their travel, …

Upcoming Nintendo Switch title, Fire Emblem Warriors, will also be launching on the New 3DS and New 3DS XL, Nintendo has confirmed, making it the first Switch title we know of that will also receive a handheld release. Both versions of the game are due to arrive this autumn. Unveiled …

The LAN finals of the Overwatch Winter Premier tournament will take place at PAX South in San Antonio at the end of the month.  The finals will run on the first two days of the event, January 27th and 28th, on the PAX Arena stage.  Teams will be competing for …

Both Robin “flusha” Rönnquist and Jesper “JW” Wecksell are set to reunite with their former Fnatic teammates to recreate the roster that dominated CS:GO for months.  A report from Slingshot eSports states that flusha and JW will join forces with Olof “olofmeister” Kajbjer, Freddy “KRiMZ” Johansson and Dennis “Dennis” Edman …

The top Dutch football league, Eredivisie, has announced plans to launch a FIFA 17 Ultimate Team league known as the E-Divisie.  The league will kick off on February 6th, with all 18 Eredivisie clubs fielding a player in the competition. Seventeen rounds of games later and the winner will be …