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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 …

Nintendo’s finally lifted the lid on its upcoming Fire Emblem game for smartphones. Entitled Fire Emblem Heroes, the game will be free to download with optional in-app purchases and will be launching on Android on February 2nd in the UK with an iOS release to follow soon after. The game …

Microsoft gamers who pick up the latest Resident Evil title will be able to play it on both Xbox One and Windows 10. This was announced via Twitter by Xbox boss Phil Spencer (below), and makes it the first major third-party release to support Microsoft’s initiative. So far, the only …

Ubisoft has acquired DJ Hero and Guitar Hero Live studio FreeStyleGames from Activision. The UK studio, based in Leamington Spa, will be renamed Ubisoft Leamington and will be headed up by Richard Blenkinsop, the new managing director at Ubisoft Reflections. Announced via blog post on Ubisoft’s website, Ubisoft Leamington will …

Ubisoft Leamington formerly known as Activision studio FreeStyleGames

Promises to deliver strange new things

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild hasn’t even launched yet, but franchise producer Eiji Aonuma is already teasing a new instalment in the series for the Nintendo Switch. Talking to IGN, Aonuma said this new game could happen in order to fully use the Switch’s potential. I haven’t …

Nintendo has unveiled the packaging for its new Nintendo Switch titles. As seen on Nintendo of America’s website,Switch games will be packaged in long, vertical cases not too dissimilar from PSP boxes. So far, only a few boxes have appeared in their final form online, including Zelda: Breath of the …

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GAME’s annual general meeting today came with an update on trading from the back-end of last year. The headlines are huge growth in its Events, eSports and Digital categories, but overall transactions were down, due to reduced margins on hardware. For the 23 weeks up to January 7th, the group …