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Internet celebrity Felix ‘PewDiePie’ Kjellberg has become the first person to be watched more than 10 billion times on YouTube. Kjellberg’s weight within the games industry has been long known, but the news that his videos have been watched more times than there are people on the Earth (7.3 billion) …
Read More »New Uncharted Collection PS4 bundle includes the first three games in Naughty Dog’s series
Players wanting to catch up on Naughty Dog’s Uncharted franchise before the fourth entry in the series next year are in luck thanks to a new console SKU. Sony has revealed a new bundle which includes a digital copy of Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection, comprising the single-player campaign portions …
Read More »2015 League of Legends All-Star Event dated
Riot Games will close 2015 with an All-Star League of Legends tournament set to take place in early December. The 2015 League of Legends All-Star Event (ASE) will be held in the North American LCS Studio in Los Angeles from December 10th to 13th. As with past ASE competitions, League …
Read More »VR is currently ‘pretty expensive, relatively primitive’, admits Oculus Rift creator
VR might not be for everyone just yet, but you’d be a luddite to count the nascent technology out for good. That’s according to the 22-year-old creator of the Oculus Rift, Palmer Luckey, who recently candidly told GameSpot that those yet to be won over by headsets such as the …
Read More »New documentary to look at how Let’s Play videos came to power
The video production firm behind Red vs Blue and Achievement Hunter will next week release a new documentary looking at the popularity of Let’s Play videos. As well as looking back at the all-around success of the Let’s Play format, which sees a group of video creators play games while …
Read More »Capcom teases further remastered games
Capcom is considering giving more games the remastered treatment after the success of January’s Resident Evil HD. The company is currently working on an updated version of 2003’s Resident Evil 0 and is completely remaking 1998 classic Resident Evil 2. It has also updated Devil May Cry 4 and DmC: …
Read More »Super Robots overthrow animals as Animal Crossing slips to second place in the Japanese charts
A menagerie of robots, animals, ghosts and squid battled it out at the top of the Japanese games charts last week. Bandai Namco’s next instalment in its long-running Super Robot Taisen turn-based strategy series blasted to the number one spot in the software rankings, knocking Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: Happy Home …
Read More »Pokémon Championships shooting suspects compared attack to ‘Columbine part two’ and ‘Boston bombing’
The two men accused of planning a mass shooting at last week’s Pokmon World Championships were capable of carrying out a devastating attack, police have said. 27-year-old James Stumbo and 18-year-old Kevin Norton were detained on Thursday and subsequently arrested after threatening Facebook posts led Boston police to search the …
Read More »Pokémon fighting game Pokkén Tournament is coming to Wii U next Spring
It’s happening: Pokkn Tournament is headed to home consoles around the world in early 2016. As its name suggests, the title is a combination of The Pokmon Company’s iconic creature-catching franchise and Bandai Namco’s series of brawlers, Tekken. Pokkn adopts the 3D fighting game style of the latter games, allowing …
Read More »Margin Makers: Guide to horror merchandise
It might still be summer, but it’s not safe to go outside, with horror games lurking just around the corner. MCV checks out the spookiest merchandise on offer The resurgence in the popularity of horror games has been frightening. After several years in the wilderness, the last 12 months have …
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