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Excalibur Games will this month release a physical version of VR PC title Craft Keep VR. The game was initially an Early Access release on Steam but has since graduated to a full release, winning itself a positive review rating in the process. The game is the first title by …

Rainbow Six Siege’s second year roadmap has been tweaked to allow for a three month period of fixing various issues that have been bothering players. The upcoming seasons set in Hong Kong and South Korea have been pushed back to August and November respectively and the Poland season dropped. Season …

The rumours about sky-high fees for entry into the new Overwatch League are unverified and wildly ranging”, Blizzard has said. Reports from the likes of Polygon and Kotaku suggest that Blizzard may be asking as much as $20m for the establishment of a regional franchise to participate in the new …

One of the most highly regarded HTC Vive and Oculus Rift games is making the move to PS4’s virtual reality headset. Arizona Sunshine offers a full campaign, as well as both single and multiplayer modes, set among the wastelands of a zombie apocalypse. While parts can be tense, however, it’s …

Rime will no longer cost more digitally on Switch than it does on other platforms. Developer Tequila Works in March blamed the disparity on development and publishing platform costs. And indeed, the physical Switch release will still retail for more than other platforms – a fact that presumably can be …

Nielsen’s US Games 360 Report 2017 has found that non-gamers still remain largely unaware of some video games hardware. Among the general population, only 22 per cent of people have even heard of the Nintendo Switch and only 11 per cent the Xbox Scorpio. In contrast, 69 per cent of …

There will be no more games in the Mass Effect series for the foreseeable future, it seems. Kotaku reports that the sci-fi RPG series has been put on hiatus and that its developer, BioWare Montreal, has been turned into a support studio. Indeed, the site adds that many of the …

Job Simulator and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality developer Owlchemy Labs is now owned by Google. Google is going big on VR following the release of its Daydream platform, and the studio’s early success with Job Simulator clearly made it a priority target. Owlchemy recently discussed the importance it placed …

A shadow of uncertainty has been cast over Hitman developer Io Interactive this morning. Square Enix has just announced that it has put the studio up for sale. Io was acquired by Eidos in 2004, which in turn was acquired by Square Enix in 2009. Io’s most recent release was …

Developer Gunfire has described how the desire to make a third Darksiders game survived the collapse of THQ and the end of the series’ original developer Vigil. The journey to Darksiders 3 was interesting,” Gunfire president and Vigial founder David Adams told IGN. We actually finished DS2 and then a …