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Virtual reality was a major theme of Bethesda’s E3 announcements this year, with titles such as Skyrim, Doom and Fallout 4 all receiving the VR treatment by the end of the year. And it’s popular IPs like this that will drive VR awareness and adoption among consumers, according to research …

PlayStation platform holder Sony has said that the Xbox One X’s power advantage over PS4 Pro will likely not be as evident as some suspect. The current high-end PS4 Pro boasts an eight core 2.1GHz CPU, a GPU with 36 911MHz compute units and 8GB of GDDR5 RAM. The Xbox …

Xbox boss Phil Spencer has bitten in what is almost approaching a war of words in the crossplatform multiplayer dispute. An upcoming update to Minecraft will introduce online multiplayer across PC, Xbox, mobile and Nintendo, but not PS4. The same is true of Rocket League, whose upcoming Nintendo Switch version …

Is it miscommunication, strategy or is it a genuine concern that cross-play will be a danger to players?

EA’s been marching to its own E3 drum for a couple of years now, but last weekend saw the publisher putting players at the heart of its event like never before. It not only had 300 content creators at its presentation, but also a barrage of YouTube co-hosts and an …

Microsoft’s E3 press conference may have been all about the power of Xbox One X (previously Project Scorpio) this year, but Xbox boss Phil Spencer still expects the company to sell more Xbox One S units over the next twelve months than the Xbox One Xs. Speaking with Eurogamer,Spencer said …

Now that the dust has settled on Microsoft’s Xbox One X reveal, it seems analysts are still uncertain about We’ve already heard IHS say it doesn’t expect the machine to reignite Xbox One sales in the Europe, but SuperData’s Joost van Dreunen goes a little further, telling MCV that the …

Microsoft’s customisable controller service, Xbox Design Labs, has finally arrived in the UK, the platform holder announced on Twitter today. The service, which lets users choose the colour of individual components to create their own bespoke controller, originally launched in the US last year, with pre-orders opening in June and …

Last night Microsoft announced it was bringing crossplay functionality to Minecraft, allowing gamers to play together and use their DLC purchases and save files across a multitude of different platforms.No longer will Minecraft be separated into various ‘Editions’, Microsoft said. Starting this summer, Minecraft will simply be known as Minecraft. …

A name and price for the Xbox One X and backwards compatibility with the original Xbox were far from the only announcements at Microsoft’s E3 press conference last night. Crackdown 3, which was originally announced way back in 2014, finally has a release date for both Xbox One and PC …