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Ubisoft has announced that a free trial for Watch Dogs 2 is now available to download for PS4 owners, with an Xbox One version coming on January 24th. During the free trial, players will have three hours to explore the world of San Francisco and its Dedsec hackers, and they’ll …

Riot has announced that the NA LCS Spring Finals weekend will be held at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver this April.  Day one will be on April 22nd and will feature the third place match between the two teams that lost in the semi finals. Day two will be on …

Gfinity has announced that it has added an extra two days to its Gfinity London CWL event, making the competition a four day tournament.  The event will now start on Thursday January 26th and will run until Sunday January 29th.  This is thanks to the new format for the event. …

Gabe Newell took some time to conduct an AMA yesterday, confirming there’s a new game set in the shared Half Life/Portal universe currently in development and that Valve is also working on a fully-fledged” single player game – we don’t know if these are two different projects or the same …

Room on Fire, the casting studio best known for its work in CS:GO, has released its first documentary titled #CSGreatestGames Episode 1: "Boostgate".  The 37 minute film, which can be seen at the bottom of this page, takes a look at the infamous match back in 2014 between Fnatic and …

Puzzle platformer Little Nightmares will be released both physically and digitally on April 28th on PS4, Xbox One and PC, publisher Bandai Namco has announced. There will be two editions of the game to buy at launch – the standard version plus a limited Six Edition, which is exclusive to …

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