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Video game charity SpecialEffect has once again hosted its One Big Game football event, bringing developers from all across the UK games industry together to raise money for a good cause. And with the event now over, more than £63,000 has been raised to help support physically disabled gamers. Read more

Developer Compulsion Games is now listed as the publisher of its beautiful, musical action adventure game South of Midnight on Steam, suggesting that its full detachment from the Xbox division is complete. Read more

It looks like we've got another massive Pokémon-flavoured hit on our hands. Nintendo and The Pokémon Company have confirmed that Pokémon Pokopia has sold more than five million units globally - a pretty impressive number given the game has been out for "just over four months". These sales include both physical and digital editions of the game. Read more

EA's relatively uncontested football crown may be seriously challenged again, as 2K Sports announces a brand new studio led by a former FIFA executive producer that's mandated to create the company's "next blockbuster sports franchise". Read more

Whenever I see the words "spiritual successor" attached to any new game, I immediately get concerned. You set a bar in the minds of old fans that can prove impossible to reach. This is not the next great Marvel vs Capcom game. It's not a Marvel vs Capcom game at all, in fact. It is, however, the best tag fighter I've played in years. Read more

The hope that Netflix might produce something more than snackable sports or party games has vanished with today's revelation that Oxenfree studio Night School is to close. Read more

There's a new update coming to Halo: Campaign Evolved next week. The patch, which is targeting some of the biggest issues players have had with the game since its launch a few weeks ago, will arrive sometime between 17th August and 21st August (no fixed date has been announced yet). Read more

It's 1:50am, and a purple cat throws several logs of wood at my head as I run to bed, exhausted from a long day battling sentient lanterns in the mines. At 6am the grind begins again, but not before a morning chat with the amnesiac dragon statue who lives down the garden path. It's a hard life for adventurers in Fields of Mistria. It's even harder as an adventurer-turned-farmer, because alongside…

New sales estimates show that Marvel T kon: Fighting Souls may have sold almost 500,000 copies in around a week, a solid pace for a fighting game. Read more

Marvel's Wolverine developer Insomniac has clarified the game will be "fully playable" on disc when it releases for PlayStation 5 on 15th September. It won't, in other words, be a disc-in-a-box that still requires you to download the game in order to play. This may make it one of PlayStation's last fully disc-based games. Read more

"One thing we always think about a lot is how does our game open ," says Mike Fitzgerald, Head of Technology at Insomniac Games . "When you start our first Spider-Man game... you jump out the window and you're swinging down the street. So what's the version of that for Wolverine?" Read more

Today, The Pokémon Company announced that it's shutting down Pokémon Bank, the Pokémon storage app was that was originally released for the Nintendo 3DS back in 2013. The service goes offline on 26th February, 2027, so you've still got plenty of time to access your old pals and begin migrating them into your new games, if you've got the time and energy. Read more

Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave is massive. If you're coming to Intelligent Systems' Switch 2 RPG after playing even Three Houses or Engage, you're going to be shocked by the scale of it. Within the first 10 hours of the game, you are given choices that show you just how broad the scope of the game is. As you play, more avenues open up before you in concertina, a bafflingly complex bloom of conseque…

Following Xbox CEO Asha Sharma's recent redacted tease of a subtitle for the long-awaited Elder Scrolls 6, it's been discovered the game's full name might have been hiding in developer Bethesda's most recent release, Starfield , all along. Read more

Last week, the private acquisition of Electronic Arts finally happened . After months of governmental approval and debate, one of gaming's largest publishers has gone private, co-owned by a combination of private equity companies and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund. Read more