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Early access release Smash + Grab is no longer purchasable on Steam

UK and European gamers who feared they might miss out on the retro-tastic Collector’s Edition of Sonic Mania are in for some good news. Sega has confirmed a release for the SKU in the UK, France, Germany and Spain in spring 2017. It will be an Amazon exclusive and costs …

Head of Xbox Phil Spencer has said that backwards compatibility for original Xbox games has not been ruled out. When asked on Twitter about the possibility of the oldest Xbox games coming to the Xbox One, Spencer said: We haven’t ruled it out but we aren’t working on it right …

Supplies of the PlayStation VR are running incredibly short after what Sony has described as sales totalling the hundreds of thousands”. The headsets are almost impossible to track down in the UK this week, with nearly all major retailers left out of stock. It’s not yet clear when stocks will …

A billboard over in America has accused current presidential candidate Donald Trump of being a Hanzo main in Overwatch. The billboard shows an image of Trump playing at a computer and reads: Donald Trump mains Hanzo and complains about team comp in chat,” before directing people to www.trumpisnotateamplayer.com. The website …

The start of 2016 was rather positive for anti-piracy specialists Denuvo. The firm’s anti-tampering technology, which had been used on the likes of Just Cause 3, Lords of the Fallen and recent FIFA titles, was deemed so potent that in January, notorious Chinese cracking forum 3DM said that in two …

Craig NepentheZ” Douglas and Dylan Rigby have pleaded not guilty in the first criminal case involving YouTubers advertising unlawful gambling. Last month NepentheZ and Rigby were charged with promoting a lottery and advertising unlawful gambling although the former was also charged with inviting children to gamble. NepentheZ promoted the FUT …

ERA’s Kim Bayley discusses the latest results from the retail association’s unique consumer tracking study. Conventional wisdom would have it that physical formats in the entertainment business are utterly doomed. Certainly the games business has been the leader in the revolution. Our annual ERA Yearbook first reported that digital had …

SAG-AFTRA set a strike date of October 21, but are returning to the negotiating table before that date

Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 has been delayed to April 4th 2017 to allow for extra polishing and optimisation. The game was originally set to launch this year, but was delayed to January 27th 2017 just a few months back. This second delay pushes the game back even further, with the …